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I have a very unimportant question: I am curious, why does Ubuntu 14.04 use sheep as emblem? Why not an elephant or ant or another animal?

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  • @EliahKagan the artwork is derived from the name - explaining the selection of the name explains the artwork. (Look at the second question - why not ant/elephant/something else?) – muru Sep 02 '14 at 03:00
  • @muru Here the OP knows that the name is "Trusty Tahr" and is still asking why a sheep-like emblem is shown. The answer to this question explains the connection between that image and the codename. In contrast that question explains how the codenames are chosen. I think there is really little if any overlap between these two questions. – Eliah Kagan Sep 02 '14 at 03:03
  • @EliahKagan OP probably doesn't know what a Tahr is. Explaining the name selection shows that the second part is an animal - and Googling Tahr solves the rest. – muru Sep 02 '14 at 03:05
  • This isn't a duplicate, two fundamentally different questions. It might be a bit silly, but that's ok. – Seth Sep 05 '14 at 03:12
  • @Seth I'm not convinced, but that's why we require 5 votes. – muru Sep 05 '14 at 05:12

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A Tahr is a hardened mountain goat living in the high frozen mountains. That is whats being used as the logo - which you might mistake for a sheep.

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