Mouflons are smaller and slimmer than farm sheep, with short red-brown coats and white patches on their sides. They don't have the thick fluffy wool of their farm-bred relatives - they look more like a wild deer than a sheep. The males' spiral horns can be more than 80 centimetres long.
Like the bezoar goat, the mouflon is brilliant on steep, rocky ground. They live in herds of females and young, while the males roam separately and only join the herd at certain times of year. Their main food is grass and leaves, and they are always alert for danger.
Their wild cousins, the bezoar goat and the Armenian mouflon, both live in the same southern Armenian mountains. So this corner of the world is where the very first sheep and goats came from - a kind of birthplace of farming, thousands of years ago.
Mouflons are protected today in special parks where their populations are recovering. Rangers keep careful track of how many there are. It is rare to see one in the wild - they are shy and quick - but lucky hikers sometimes catch a glimpse of a curled-horned silhouette on a ridge against the sky.