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They are off-white in color, and their coat consists of a fine wool undercoat and stiff, long, and hollow guard hairs. Their winter coats can be over 2 inches (5 cm) thick. 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 ...
Secondary succession is the secondary ecological succession of a plant's life. As opposed to the first, primary succession, secondary succession is a process started by an event (e.g. forest fire, harvesting, hurricane, etc.) that reduces an already established ecosystem (e.g. a forest or a wheat field) to a smaller population of species, and as such secondary succession occurs on preexisting ...
Specimens of juvenile plants may look so completely different from adult plants of the same species that egg-laying insects do not recognize the plant as food for their young. The transition from early to late growth forms is sometimes called vegetative phase change. [11]
A curved knife can be used to cut the horn off when the calf is younger than a couple of months old. It is a simple procedure where the horn and the growth ring is cut off to remove the horn. For under eight months of age, but after the horns are starting to grow attached to the skull, a cup dehorner or Gigli saw (a type of surgical cutting ...
The flowers typically last only for a day or two; but new flowers may appear in a succession of blooms, especially during humid or rainy weather. Various members of the genus may bloom spring only or repeat and continue into autumn, often a few days after rainstorms (thus one of the common names, rain lilies). Periods of synchronous bloom ...
It was clear early on the Bills were in for a tough game. On the Rams' first possession they went 70 yards on 12 plays, with Kyren Williams scoring a touchdown. The Rams led 10-7 when they made ...
"Shorter varieties are cool, tolerant plants and are ideal for early spring," she says. "Keep your eye on containers, as they tend to dry out faster than the ground. Use moisture control soil in ...
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.