| Habitat: Mountain regions of Africa, indigenous to
the Barbary Coast
Food: Grasses, herbs, and twigs of low brush
Weight: 150-300 pounds
Fun Facts: Aoudads are very distinctive animals,
large of shoulder and thin of hip. Aoudads
are a striking golden to almost red color.
Long hair runs from the sheep’s
chin, down the neck and chest to each
hoof, forming distinctive “chaps”
on each foreleg. They have split hooves
with soft center pads and hard-rimmed
edges that can grip any ledge. They can
scamper up sheer cliffs and are always
close to a vertical escape. The life span
of an aoudad is 10-15 years. The mating
(rutting) period is fall and the young
are born in the spring. |
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