Bighorn males, called rams ... 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 bachelor ...

Disease, drought and predators like mountain lions have all been blamed for the herd’s demise. Unfortunately, large die-offs ...

Kim Keating, a wildlife biologist with the Northern Rocky Mountain Science Center in Bozeman, Montana, was in the lead. He has studied Glacier's bighorn ... sheep wintering on Mount Allen, a ...

Utah is home to about 3,000 desert bighorn sheep and 1,500 Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep, Utah Division of Wildlife Resources officials reported in 2024. Meanwhile, it's not uncommon for some of ...

What caused a once-thriving band of bighorn sheep in the Middle Missouri Breaks to vanish? Numerous studies have attempted to find clues to similar declines.

The desert bighorn, distinct from its Rocky Mountain cousin ... was nearly wiped out by mountain lions, and bighorn have taken a hit from pneumonia spread by a rival sheep, the hardy and bearded ...

Some of the critters who call the surrounding Continental Divide landscapes home include Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep, ...

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 ...