Date of issue: 11 December 2015

Ustyurt’s moufflon is a subspecies of an Asian moufflon. This is a wild steppe ram of the average sizes on quite long legs. In Kazakhstan live the largest subspecies of Ustyurt’s moufflon which occupies not so much the plateau of the same name in the west of the republic as its steep edges, so-called chinka, and also heights and hollows of the peninsula of Mangyshlak. The moufflon is very mobile, eats poor desert vegetation, and drinks both fresh and bitter and salty water.