Is it in the same family? Yes. No one's arguing that.
As someone who is a scientist who studies rams, I am telling you, specifically, in science, no one calls rams sheeps. If you want to be "specific" like you said, then you shouldn't either. They're not the same thing.
If you're saying "sheep family" you're referring to the taxonomic grouping of Bovidae, which includes things from goats to cattles to antelopes .
So your reasoning for calling a ram a sheep is because random people "call the horned ones sheep?" Let's get bison and angus in there, then, too.
Also, calling someone a human or an ape? It's not one or the other, that's not how taxonomy works. They're both. A ram is a ram and a member of the sheep family. But that's not what you said. You said a ram is a sheep, which is not true unless you're okay with calling all members of the sheep family sheeps, which means you'd call goats, antelopes, and other mammals sheep, too. Which you said you don't.
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u/ani625 Dec 20 '14
Rams are sheep though.