Wyoming Bighorn Sheep Hunt

As spring arrives, bighorn sheep 🐑 resume their diet of grasses and clover. (Eating woodier plants like sage and willow in the winter). ☘️ They are ruminants with a 4-part stomach that allows them to eat a lot, then retreat to a cliff, safe from predators, to rechew and digest. They absorb moisture during this digestive process, so they can go without water for long periods of time. / 🎬 @montanamaaike 🙏 | The Ranch at Rock Creek

Cactus: if you’re a desert bighorn sheep, it’s what’s for dinner. But consider this your disclaimer-this diet does come with its hazards… This incredible footage is shared courtesy of the Texas A&M Natural Resources Institute (@tamu_nri), as part of an ongoing, binational collaboration to reinstate desert bighorns in Sonora, Mexico via capturing, collaring, translocating, and tracking efforts conducted at Sierra El Alamo (@sierraelalamo). Data gathered from this project will help biologists make