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Bighorn sheep live in large herds and do not typically follow a single leader ram, unlike the mouflon, the ancestor of the domestic sheep, which has a strict dominance hierarchy. Before the mating season or " rut ", the rams attempt to establish a dominance hierarchy to determine access to ewes for mating.
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.
O. dalli can live to be 12 to 16 years of age. [7] O. dalli are sexually dimorphic, which means rams and ewes look different. Rams are larger than ewes and typically weigh between 160 and 180 pounds (70 and 80 kg) at maturity. Ewes weigh approximately 100 to 110 pounds (45 to 50 kg) on average.
Rams with different size horns may be less inclined to fight to establish the dominance order, while rams with similarly sized horns are more so. [65] Merinos have an almost linear hierarchy whereas there is a less rigid structure in Border Leicesters when a competitive feeding situation arises.
Dall sheep live in herds. Adult rams live together in bachelor herds, and the ewes and young sheep live in other herds. Male sheep leave the female herds when they are two or three years old. [4] [6] [2] The sheep mate in November. Although younger rams can mate, it is principally the older rams who actually sire offspring. [2]
A young ram Two rams and two ewes Female mouflon with young immediately after birth Mouflon from Brehms Tierleben Mouflon ram Mouflon rams in the Eifel Park, Gondorf Few of the mouflon living at Thomayer Hospital in Prague. The European mouflon is a feral subspecies of the primitive domestic sheep. It is found in Europe and western Asia.
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Historically native to much of eastern Oregon, but then became extinct in the state [33] until reintroductions, recently to the Mutton Mountains, [34] Cottonwood Canyon State Park and near the John Day Fossil Beds in the 21st century; [35] bighorn sheep now live in herds scattered across eastern Oregon. [33] Mountain goat: Oreamnos americanus ...