Desert bighorn sheep are once again roaming the ... The agency said it hopes a healthy, breeding population in the Franklin ...

Two big rams bolted from the steel trailer, took a few hesitant steps and glanced around nervously at their new home: dramatic mountains in west Texas more than 200 miles from where they grew up.

The Wicklow Mountains are impressive ... always been difficult and it is physically demanding - but sheep farmers are a resilient breed.' A bit like their woolly charges in fact.

These attributes, along with keen vision, help them move easily about rocky, rugged mountain terrain. Wild sheep live in social groups, but rams and ewes typically meet only to mate. Rams live in ...

BREEDING: Ewes and rams reach sexual maturity ... collisions with cars, predation by mountain lions, and diseases contracted from domestic sheep caused Peninsular bighorn sheep to decline. POPULATION ...