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 ...

My respect for bighorn sheep is enormous. As far as I’m concerned ... As evening came on I had no choice but to head back for ...

Bighorn-sheep hunting in Montana is limited to 10 specified districts. Only rams with a three-quarter curl or better are legal in most of the ... As evening came on I had no choice but to head back ...

Males engage in head-to-head combat to establish dominance ... At two to four years of age, young rams follow adult rams away from their birth group during the fall breeding period. Peninsular bighorn ...

It is what is unofficially called Ram Jam season. This time of year, your chances of seeing bighorn sheep are higher and when they are in the park it can lead to traffic jams. "This is their park ...

Bighorn sheep, named after their large horns, are native to North America. Males, called rams, have massive horns that curl around their faces and can weigh up to 14 kg. Females, called ewes ...

Two big rams bolted from the steel trailer ... nearly wiped out by mountain lions, and bighorn have taken a hit from pneumonia spread by a rival sheep, the hardy and bearded aoudad, which carry ...

since a ram killed by a hunter in the district last fall tested positive for exposure to a respiratory disease. In the past, bighorn sheep surveys in the region have found 100 to 300 animals in ...

Altogether, biologists counted 105 rams, 199 ewes and 46 lambs. Not included are approximately 40 bighorn sheep in the North Unit of Theodore Roosevelt National Park and bighorns introduced to the ...

Last year all seven hunters who got a bighorn sheep license in North Dakota harvested a ram, according to Game and Fish. Hunter success was 92% for moose and 64% for elk.