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 ...

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.

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.

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 for two decades, collaring 99 since ...

The total score is 176 3/8, exactly 8 3/8 better than the score of the former world-record bighorn ram, taken by Larry Jones.

HABITAT: Peninsular bighorn sheep ... and mountain lion predation. LIFE CYCLE: Within weeks of birth, lambs are eating native grasses; at four to six months of age, they are weaned. Ewes and lambs ...

The North Dakota Game and Fish Department’s 2024 bighorn sheep survey, completed by recounting lambs in March, revealed a minimum of 350 bighorn sheep in the grasslands of western North Dakota, down 4 ...

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.

FRANKLIN MOUNTAINS, Texas — Two big rams bolted from the steel ... rewilding of the American West. The desert bighorn, distinct from its Rocky Mountain cousin, ranges from the Chihuahuan Desert ...