Gorali

Goral are a wild, golden bighorn sheep found exclusively in the Downs of Eriador. They have long, curving, whitish horns. Solitary and intractable, they are unique among sheep. Goral only gather during mating season, when small groups of males join and then seek out the females. Ranked by the size of their horns, the males instinctively know their place, so there is little fighting during these brief unions. After mating, the females travel as a herd with the young for a couple of months and then scatter.

Goral have been very profitably interbred with domestic sheep, producing excellent varieties of wool-bearing species (Q. "Toa" = "Wool").