The animal's thick, bony skull usually prevents serious injury. A bighorn ram's horns can weigh ... rugged mountain terrain. Wild sheep live in social groups, but rams and ewes typically meet ...

Peninsular bighorn sheep can get water from cacti, splitting the spiny barrel cactus with their horns and eating its watery insides. But thanks to sprawl and agribusiness, both sheep and succulent are ...

My respect for bighorn sheep is enormous. As far as I’m concerned, no animal has better eyesight or a greater ability ... I ...

In the face of a plummeting population of bighorn ... of an animal on a survey dying,” Wakeling said. “So this is extremely rare of that happening.” The dead sheep was recovered and sent ...

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.

We understand the bighorn sheep: It’s very symbolic to people, it’s our state animal, and people really enjoy seeing them.” ...