Desert bighorn sheep are once again roaming the ... The state agency recently moved 77 sheep from the Elephant Mountain ...

For the first time in nearly a century, bighorn sheep are returning to the Franklin Mountains, marking a significant milestone in conservation efforts for the region. Texas Parks and Wildlife, in ...

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 ...

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 ...

THREATS: Loss of habitat due to development and agriculture, collisions with cars, predation by mountain lions, and diseases contracted from domestic sheep caused Peninsular bighorn sheep to decline.

Despite decades of translocation efforts after the state’s bighorn sheep faced extinction in the early 1900s, Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep are still included in the U.S. Forest Service’s list of ...

Missteps occurred too: A herd transplanted near Van Horn was nearly wiped out by mountain lions, and bighorn have taken a hit from pneumonia spread by a rival sheep, the hardy and bearded aoudad ...