Check out this wild, close encounter with a big horned sheep at Glacier National Park in Montana 🐏 | The National Desk - TND

1.7K views · 234 reactions | As spring arrives, bighorn sheep  resume their diet of grasses and clover. (Eating woodier plants like sage and willow in the winter). ☘️ They are ruminants with a 4-part stomach that allows them to eat a lot, then retreat to a cliff, safe from predators, to rechew and digest. They absorb moisture during this digestive process, so they can go without water for long periods of time. /  @montanamaaike  | The Ranch at Rock Creek | Facebook

Cactus: if you’re a desert bighorn sheep, it’s what’s for dinner. But consider this your disclaimer-this diet does come with its hazards… This incredible footage is shared courtesy of the Texas A&M Natural Resources Institute (@tamu_nri), as part of an ongoing, binational collaboration to reinstate desert bighorns in Sonora, Mexico via capturing, collaring, translocating, and tracking efforts conducted at Sierra El Alamo (@sierraelalamo). Data gathered from this project will help biologists make

50K views · 1.2K reactions | Bighorn sheep got close to our biologists and members of the Utah Wild Sheep Foundation recently. Guzzlers are found in some of Utah's driest areas. The devices collect and store rainwater for wildlife to drink. Rain has been in short supply this summer, though. So, we hiked to the top of the Newfoundland Mountains in northern Utah, to give some sheep a drink! | Utah Division of Wildlife Resources | Facebook