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Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep
Ovis canadensis
44.9566, -110.664
Field Notes
Description:
Bighorn rams have large, cashew nut-shaped horns, and have bodies best described as stocky and powerfully built. The horns of females are thinner, shorter and do not curve as much. Both sexes are brown above and lighter below. In spring, the heavy hair of these animals may be somewhat bleached by sunlight, particularly on animals that live at higher altitudes where the sun is stronger.
Habitat:
High mountain meadows and rock faces today, but once various subspecies were found on steep, rugged country in the prairies.
Notes:
There were two rams in this group and I found them just above the rugged canyons above the Yellowstone River.
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