Lítla Dímun sheep

The Lítla Dímun sheep (Dímunarseyðurin) was a type of short-tailed sheep endemic to Lítla Dímun in the Faroe Islands.

It was a feral sheep, probably derived from the earliest sheep brought to Northern Europe in the Neolithic Period.

[1] The last of these very small, black, short-wooled sheep were shot in the 1860s.

It was similar in appearance and origin to the surviving Soay sheep, from the island of Soay in the St Kilda archipelago off the west coast of Scotland.

Soay is an island of very similar size and topography as Lítla Dímun, and has similarly difficult access.