title: [The European mouflon, Ovis musimon].
abstract: Until a couple of decades ago, the European mouflon found on the islands of Corsica, Sardinia, and Cyprus was considered an independent wild species and last representative of the European wild sheep. However, recent research has shown that there have not been wild sheep in Europe since the late Pleistocene. Archeological investigation in Corsica has shown that the mouflon is not a wild sheep but a primitive domestic sheep brought to the islands by farmers from the Near East and which then became wild (feral).
authors.affiliation: Faculteit der Diergeneeskunde, Universiteit Utrecht.
authors.forename: W A
authors.initials: WA
authors.lastname: Hermans
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000829:Animals, Domestic; D000835:Animals, Wild; D005060:Europe; D012756:Sheep / Q000145:classification*