Dall's sheep

Or Dall sheep

[dawlz]

noun

1. a white-haired wild sheep, Ovis dalli, of mountainous regions of northwestern North America, having curved horns.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Dall's sheep¹

1905–10; named after William H. Dall (1845–1927), American naturalist

Example Sentences

According to their analysis, horses only accounted for half of the gray wolf diet, while 15 percent of their diet came from Dall's sheep and caribou.

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He was just the 23rd bowhunter in the world to complete what’s known as the “Grand Slam” by killing a ram of each of the four main subspecies of wild sheep in North America - the Rocky Mountain bighorn, the desert bighorn, the Dall’s sheep and the Stone’s sheep.

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Back home, Burns practices from that distance daily with his bow, shooting into a life-size Dall’s sheep made of foam.

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Among the experienced hunters of both forms of Dall's sheep are Messrs. Dali DeWeese, of Colorado, and A.J.

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Of Dall's sheep, Mr. Stone declares that it is rapidly growing scarcer, and this statement is based not only on his own observation, but on reports made to him by the Indians.

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