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  2. Desert bighorn sheep - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. Bighorn sheep - Wikipedia

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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.

  4. List of mammals of Texas - Wikipedia

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    The varying geography of Texas, the second largest state, provides a large variety of habitats for mammals. The land varies from swamps , Piney Woods in the east , rocky hills and limestone karst in the central Hill Country of the Edwards Plateau , desert in the south and west , mountains in the far west (the Trans-Pecos ), and grassland ...

  5. ‘Oh God.’ Bison rams hiker after she gets too close at Texas ...

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  6. Sierra Diablo - Wikipedia

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    Indigenous Lipan Apache people of the region were driven away and killed in the Battle of the Diablo Mountains in 1854 under the command of John George Walker.A last conflict of the Texas–Indian wars took place at Sierra Diablo in 1880, with Apache under the command of Victorio versus Texas Rangers under George W. Baylor.

  7. Homosexual behavior in sheep - Wikipedia

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    The domestic sheep (Ovis aries) is the only species of mammal except for humans which exhibits exclusive homosexual behavior. [1] [2] [3] "About 10% of rams (males) refuse to mate with ewes (females) but do readily mate with other rams." [2] Thirty percent of all rams demonstrate at least some homosexual behavior. [4]

  8. Mouflon - Wikipedia

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    A mouflon was cloned successfully in early 2001, and lived at least seven months, making it the first clone of an endangered mammal to survive beyond infancy. [ 13 ] [ 14 ] [ 15 ] This demonstrated that a common species (in this case, a domestic sheep) can successfully become a surrogate for the birth of an exotic animal such as the mouflon.

  9. European mouflon - Wikipedia

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    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.