The helicopter hovered low, allowing a crew member to shoot a net over a desert bighorn sheep in southeastern Nevada.
A “mugger” jumped from the aircraft and ran over, giving the animal a shot to calm it down before tying its legs with leather strapping, blindfolding it, putting it in a sack and hoisting it into the air with three other sheep.
With that, the animals started their journey to rangeland in Southern Utah’s Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument.