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Bighorn sheep
(redirected from Big Horn Sheep)

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Bighorn sheep
a tall (up to 3 ft), heavy (up to 300 lb body weight) wild sheep that lives in inaccessible mountain country where it exercises its principal achievement of prodigious leaping and climbing. Called also Ovis canadensis. Several regional varieties, e.g. O. c. californiana, Californian bighorn sheep.


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The resort also contains a full 100-seat dining facility and an adjoining 175-acre wildlife park housing a variety of different animals including moose, deer, big horn sheep, bison, elk and swans.
There might be the antlered head of a moose, a mountain lion, a white tailed deer, a big horn sheep, a bear's claw fetish, and inlaid buffalo nickels all on the same stick.
If an off-road vehicle damages the environment, if it disturbs or destroys desert tortoise or big horn sheep habitat, then those negative environmental consequences must be subtracted from any beneficial consequences of off-road-vehicle recreation.
 
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