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Alberta has some of the biggest bighorn sheep in the world, and the sheep hunt is carefully regulated. In this video, Hinton district officer Chris Watson with Alberta Fish & Wildlife Enforcement explains the process of registering bighorn sheep after harvest, as well as how to distinguish between legal and illegal bighorn sheep. For more information about identifying legal bighorn sheep, visit http://albertaregulations.ca/2018-Alberta-Hunting-Regulations.pdf | Alberta Fish and Wildlife Enforcem

How do you figure out a Bighorn sheep’s age? No, this isn’t a setup for a punchline – you can determine a Bighorn Sheep’s age from its horns! As the sheep ages, its horns grow in layers creating dark bands that can be identified similar to counting the rings on a tree. Each of these bands represent about a year’s worth of growth, so by counting this horn’s bands we can see the sheep was about 5 years old. You can catch more facts like this at our drop-in programming this summer, Wednesdays to Su

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