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Bighorn 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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And while walking, you will have the opportunity to see few of the animals living in the Grand Canyon like deer, elk, big horn sheep and the endangered California condor soaring in the ostensibly primeval sky.
The article also quoted their unnamed wildlife officer as saying that Metis hunters are shooting Big Horn Sheep just for their horns.
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