State biologists called 2023 the worst year in more than a decade for bighorn sheep. What are Coloradans doing to protect ...

Ty Woodward, a terrestrial biologist with CPW, explains the work behind creating a new bighorn sheep herd in Colorado as ...

Females (ewes) also have horns, but they are of smaller size. Bighorns inhabit a vast range, from the Rocky Mountains in Canada down to the deserts of the American ... Wild sheep live in social ...

Every morning this month, Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) terrestrial biologist Tyrel Woodward and his team have been hard ...

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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 ...

DESCRIPTION: This sheep is a medium-sized bovid with a muscular body and thick neck. Males range between five and six feet in length and weigh up to 211 pounds; females are smaller, rarely weighing ...

Archaeologists uncovered the oldest known evidence of humans deliberately modifying the horns of domesticated animals. The remains of six male sheep with altered horns were found at the ancient ...