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The bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis) is a hoofed mammal that lives in the Rocky Mountains of North America (alpine tundra) and in some desert areas.
Bighorn Sheep
Bighorn Sheep (Ovis canadensis)
Also know as Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep
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Bighorn Sheep near Georgetown, CO
I spent two days looking at signs of sheep in this area before finally coming across this unusually large group of Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep.
Bighorn Sheep
Ovis canadensis
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BIGHORN SHEEP FACTS
Description
The Bighorn Sheep has brown coat in summer that becomes faded by winter. The male has large broad horns that can weigh up to 14kg. The female has much smaller horns.
Bighorn Sheep
Mammal. Bighorn sheep live in herds or bands led by the dominant ewe (female). Bighorn rams (males) are famous for head-to-head combat to win over females.
Bighorn Sheep can be found in all of the southwestern deserts. In places such as the Great Basin, Mojave, Sonoran and Chihuahuan Deserts of southeast California, Arizona and New Mexico.
Bighorn sheep
Taxonomy Ovis canadensis [Shaw, 1804]. Citation: Nat. Misc., 51, text to pl. 610. Type locality: Canada, Alberta, Mountains on Bow River, near Exshaw.
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Bighorn Sheep Ram by Mike Cavaroc
A bighorn sheep ram stands along a ridge in the Bridger-Teton National Forest, east of Jackson Ho...
Bridger National Forest
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Bighorn Sheep Behaviour
No observations regarding Bighorn Sheep behavior have been submitted to the database yet.
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Bighorn sheep are all about those famous massive spiralled horns. In the males, they are particularly heavy and can reach over a metre in length.
Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep Range
Fast Facts
Type: Mammal Diet: Herbivore Average life span in the wild: 6 to 15 years Size: 5 to 6 ft (1.5 to 1.8 m) Weight: 117 to 279 lbs (53 to 127 kg) Group name: Herd Protection ...
Bighorn Sheep
Description
Distinguishing Features - A full-grown bighorn may average 101 cm at the shoulder and range from 79 - 158 kg in weight.
Bighorn Sheep
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Bovidae
Ovis canadensis - male (upper), female (lower)
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Bighorn Sheep
Ovis canadensis
Like the Mountain Goat, the Bighorn Sheep lives in hard-to-reach mountainous areas. But unlike the Mountain Goat, the Bighorn also lives at lower elevations and in warmer, more southern regions, even deserts.
Desert Bighorn Sheep
The Desert Bighorn Sheep formerly ranged in the Rocky Mountains from southern Canada to Colorado, but are now reduced to areas where small bands are protected by inaccessible habitat or by refuges.
Bighorn sheep rest at night on steep, rocky slopes, on top of rocky rims, or on a slope between two bluffs. These types of areas give them excellent protection from predators, since they enable the sheep to see in all directions except uphill.
Bighorn sheep are perhaps best known for the head-to-head combat between males.
Bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis)
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BIGHORN SHEEP
A wild brown sheep from mountains and deserts of North America.
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The Bison (also called the American Buffalo) is the heaviest land animal in North America.
Habitat Bighorn sheep live in alpine meadows, mountain slopes and foothills. They like areas with rocky slopes they can climb to evade predators.
The food of bighorn sheep depends on availability and season. In western Texas deer brush, sotol, and ocotillo were utilized extensively by bighorns.
Vegetation characteristics and bighorn sheep use on burned and unburned areas in Alberta. Wildlife Society Bulletin. 16(2): 186-193. [15276] 12. Benzon, Ted A.; Rice, Leslie A. 1988. Mountain goat status, Black Hills, South Dakota.
Deer are the staple food, but also consume other animals including bobcats, elk, bighorn sheep, moose, nine-banded armadillos, coyotes, rodents, rabbits, feral swine, and domestic livestock. Prey are dragged to a secluded spot before eating begins.
Closer to home, many of our local desert bighorn sheep (federally endangered) have been vaccinated against diseases brought into their range by feral cattle.
For many animals such as the bighorn sheep and the antelope ground squirrel, cactus are an important source of food and water. The cactus wren and California thrasher often build their nests in the buckhorn cholla.
The "Borrego" in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park is Spanish for the wild desert bighorn sheep that inhabit its rocky cliffs and canyons. I was very lucky to happen upon a pair of bighorns meandering down Borrego Palm Canyon from the palm oasis.
The bark of this and related firs is browsed by deer, elk, bighorn sheep, and moose; the leaves are eaten by grouse, and the seeds are consumed by songbirds and mammals. The scientific name, meaning "hairy-fruited," refers to the cones.
Argali (O. ammon) Â- Domestic sheep (O. aries) Â- Bighorn Sheep (O. canadensis) Â- Dall Sheep (O. dalli) Â- Mouflon (O. musimon) Â- Snow sheep (O. nivicola) Â- Urial (O. orientalis)
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Bharal (P. nayaur) Â- Dwarf Blue Sheep (P. schaeferi) ...
The large rock contains paintings of deer and bighorn sheep on one side, and human-like forms on the other, including what looks to be a large lizard (the painting is 1.5 feet long) which is certainly a Chuckwalla, ...
In some areas where Barbary sheep have been introduced, there is concern that they may compete with the native bighorn sheep for food resources.
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Domestic sheep belong to the species Ovis, which also includes such wild relatives as Mouflon and Bighorn sheep.
Alaskan types are the Dall's, or white, sheep and the Stone's, or black, sheep. Bighorn sheep are classified in the phylum Chordata, subphylum Vertebrata, class Mammalia, order Artiodactyla, family Bovidae.
 See also: Bighorn, Sheep, Deer, Goat, Elk
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