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Dall's sheep

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Dall's sheep (Ovis dalli dalli) at Prague zoo, 2009.
I don´t know the age of this animal that came last year from Leipzig, but it looks quite young to me.
 
Dall's sheep grow to quite large in fact they are hunted for their size! So I think this guy is quite young.
 
Today I went to see Dalls sheep, and there was a nice male with big horns in the enclosure. So I have realized this could be a female.
Also I have seen two turkeys deep inside the sheep enclosure. Do somebody know If the wild Turkey is kept with the sheep or is it just a domestic Turkey. I think I cant recognize it (but I would say it was wild turkey as the male was not so big as I know from the domestic ones).
 
I don´t know wheter it´s a domestic or wild form of a turkey in the sheep´s enclosure. So I´ve just uploaded a pic of it, maybe somebody can help us to determine it.

At first, I thought it´s 100% a domestic turkey, because there are bronze (=wild coloured) domestic turkeys in the children zoo. But after you wrote your comment, I´ve checked the animal inventory list and realised, the zoo acquired 15 (3,12) wild turkeys last year. So it could theoretically be any of the 2 forms.
 

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