Bighorn males, called rams ... rugged mountain terrain. Wild sheep live in social groups, but rams and ewes typically meet only to mate. Rams live in bachelor groups and females live in herds ...

Peninsular bighorn sheep can get water from cacti, splitting the spiny barrel cactus with their horns and eating its watery insides. But thanks to sprawl and agribusiness, both sheep and succulent are ...

That's bad news for bighorn sheep that live there, according to new research to be presented at AGU's 2024 Annual Meeting. Ned Bair, a researcher at the University of California, Santa Barbara ...

Sierra Nevada bighorn sheep learn to leap from crag to crag in early lambhood, developing quickly into keen-eyed, strong-limbed and extremely agile creatures, always on the move to escape mountain ...

Detecting this infection in bighorn sheep, Ovis canadensis canadensis ... heart and skeletal muscle. But unlike other CNS pathogens, this lifelong persistent brain infection does not seem to ...

31-Jan. 13 for a bighorn sheep management hunt. This hunt is intended to balance the current ram-ewe ratio and provide additional hunting opportunity. Two permits will be issued to Nebraska ...

EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — For the first time in nearly a century, bighorn sheep are returning to the Franklin Mountains, marking a significant milestone in conservation efforts for the region.