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Rocky Mountain bighorn rams employ at least three different courting strategies. [32] The most common and successful is the tending strategy, in which a ram follows and defends an estrous ewe. [ 32 ] Tending takes considerable strength and vigilance, and ewes are most receptive to tending males, presumably feeling they are the most fit.
Rams battle to determine the dominant animal, which then gains possession of the ewes. Facing each other, rams charge head-on from distances of 20 ft (6.1 m) or more, crashing their massive horns together with tremendous impact, until one or the other ceases. [8] Desert bighorn sheep live in separate ram and ewe bands most of the year.
Sheep are the only species of mammal except for humans which exhibit exclusive homosexual behavior. [101] [102] [103] About 10% of rams refuse to mate with ewes but readily mate with other rams, [102] and thirty percent of all rams demonstrate at least some homosexual behavior.
Muskoxen will ram into each other at high speeds. As a rule, only two bovids of equal build and level of defence engage in a fight, which is intended to determine the superior of the two. Individuals that are evidently inferior to others would rather flee than fight; for example, immature males do not fight with the mature bulls.
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Humans killed per year Animal Humans killed per year Animal Humans killed per year 1 Mosquitoes: 1,000,000 [a] Mosquitoes 750,000 Mosquitoes 725,000 2 Humans 475,000 Humans (homicide) 437,000 Snakes 50,000 3 Snakes: 50,000 Snakes 100,000 Dogs 25,000 4 Dogs: 25,000 [b] Dogs 35,000 Tsetse flies 10,000 5 Tsetse flies: 10,000 [c] Freshwater snails ...
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