Desert Bighorn Sheep, Rams (Peninsular)

The Peninsular Desert Bighorn Sheep, or Borrego Cimarron, are in real trouble in southern California as only about 400 of the animals remain in the United States. Fragmented habitat, diseases of domestic sheep, Mountain Lion predation, and other factors are all taking their toll on the limited population.

Note the wide forehead, the massive horns, and the broomed tips of the horns; this is an old Desert Bighorn ram. A ram who has made it through maybe a dozen hot, dusty, dry summers. One has to give credit to the tenacity of these desert dwellers.

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Note the wide forehead, the massive horns, and the broomed tips of the horns; this is an old Desert Bighorn ram. A ram who has made it through maybe a dozen hot, dusty, dry summers. One has to give credit to the tenacity of these desert dwellers.

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