![]() Males, called rams, have large horns that curl around their faces by eight years of age. ![]() Females, called ewes, have smaller horns that curve slightly to a sharp point within the first four years of life. Top: Yearlings feed on grass and soil at Sheep Lakes.īottom: Rangers help a bighorn ram cross the road.īighorn sheep move to low elevations in late spring and early summer, when they descend from the Mummy Range to Sheep Lakes in Horseshoe Park. Here, they graze and eat soil to obtain minerals not found in their high mountain habitat. The minerals are essential in restoring nutrient levels depleted by the stresses of lambing and a poor quality winter diet.īighorn sheep visits to Sheep Lakes are hit-and-miss, but generally occur between 9:00 a.m. Groups between one and sixty sheep move from the ridge on the north side of the valley, across the road and stay up to two or three hours before reversing the trip back to the high country. ![]() Studies show that crossing the highway creates high levels of stress in the animals, which can reduce their resistance to disease thereby increasing sheep mortality. In an attempt to protect the sheep, the park created a "Bighorn Crossing Zone" in Horseshoe Park. In late spring and throughout the summer, rangers control traffic as sheep move to and from the meadow. – operating video functions (video conversion, etc.Researchers believe this has increased the intake of important minerals by the sheep, thus improving the health of the bighorn herd. – adjusting the “SET MENU” parameters (except for speaker
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