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'Bam Bam' the bighorn known for bashing cars dies

Last updated Tuesday, February 5, 2013 - 1:51pm

LANDER, Wyo. -- A bighorn sheep named Bam Bam because of his habit of butting vehicles at a Wyoming park has died with his horns, likely of natural causes.

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After subduing a bighorn sheep with tranquilizer dart, biologists Jessica Jennings-Gaines, left, and Doug Brimeyer from Wyoming Game and Fish quickly take samples of the animal at the base of Miller Butte in Jackson, Wyo., on Thursday, Jan. 3, 2013. At this site on the National Elk Refuge, the Wyoming Game and Fish Department employees are testing for a strain of bacteria that’s been linked to bighorn die-offs across the West. (AP Photo/Jackson Hole News & Guide, Price Chambers)

Biologists seek cause of deadly sheep pneumonia

Mike Koshmrl Jackson Hole News & Guide

Last updated Monday, January 21, 2013 - 10:51am

JACKSON — A dart loaded with tranquilizer makes a “whap” as it connects with the haunches of an unsuspecting bighorn sheep near the base of Miller Butte.

The sheep, a 3-year-old ewe, gets wobbly within a few minutes. She fades into a sleep and biologists Doug Brimeyer and Jessica Jennings-Gaines approach.

The ewe is drooling as Brimeyer and Jennings-Gaines fit a hood over her eyes and spread her jaws. “Say ‘ahh,’” Brimeyer says as he holds the animal steady.

Jennings-Gaines picks unchewed grass off the ewe’s tongue before taking saliva samples from her tonsils and gums.

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A veterinarian with the Nevada Division of Wildlife takes a blood sample from a captured bighorn sheep Wednesday near Henderson, Nev. In an attempt to help repopulate areas of Southern Utah, 50 sheep from the River and Muddy mountains in southern Nevada are being captured for relocation to Grand Staircase National Monument. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)

Nev. bighorn sheep make new home in Utah

Felicia Fonseca The Associated Press

Last updated Saturday, November 3, 2012 - 10:46pm

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.

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Nevada desert bighorn sheep to boost Utah herds

Felicia Fonseca The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, November 2, 2012 - 3:41pm

Dozens of desert bighorn sheep from Nevada are getting a new home in southern Utah.

Wildlife officials used a helicopter this week to capture 50 of the iconic big game animals from the mountains of southeastern Nevada and moved them to Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument.

Western states often swap animals to restore or boost their local populations.

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A lesson in deer senses

Eric Sharp Detroit Free Press

Last updated Wednesday, October 26, 2011 - 1:52pm

MOUNT PLEASANT, Mich. -- Busted!

Only 25 yards away and nibbling steadily closer, the big doe grazing on the left already had been converted into 50 pounds of chops, steaks, roasts and venison burger in my mind when something caught her eye.

She gave me a laser stare for 10 seconds without raising her head, then whistled an alarm snort, wheeled and bounded over the side of the hill with her two companions hot on her heels.

I thought I was pretty well camouflaged in my tree, which was at the edge of an open area with a thick screen of leaves behind the stand to help hide movement. But she apparently picked up something when I turned on the camera to take a photograph.

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Vaccine for bighorn sheep still 10 years away

Eric Barker Lewiston

Last updated Wednesday, October 26, 2011 - 11:28am

PULLMAN, WAS. -- A Washington State University researcher said it will take at least 10 years to develop a vaccine that protects bighorn sheep from a disease carried by domestic sheep.

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