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- Title: Bighorn Sheep
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- Description: Bighorn sheep, (Ovis canadensis), stocky, climbing hoofed mammal of western North America known for its massive curling horns. Bighorns are brown with a white rump patch. Horns are present in both sexes, but they are bigger in males (rams). Six living subspecies are recognized. Males of the Rocky Mountain subspecies have horns averaging more than 1 metre (3.3 feet) long as measured along the outer curvature; a record of 1.33 metres was reported in 1900. Males of this subspecies are nearly 2 metres long and weigh up to 137 kg (300 pounds), though the average is 95 kg (71 kg in females, or ewes). The California bighorn is nearly as large; desert bighorns are smaller.
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- Date Created: 2015-01-24 00:00:00