Ovis, Guy Tillett a
teacher from SD. This is a small book,
but covers a lot of significant information about Bighorn Sheep. It has good natural history, some sections
that are probably only interesting to the hunter and some nice details. “Bighorns are born on the edge of the world…at
least their world.”
Sometimes there are details that miss the important final
information. For example he states that
“Some Early Native American groups described wild sheep in their oral history
and traditions. The constellation Orio,
the hunter, includes a prominence of three stars seen by some First American
peoples ‘as mountain sheep’.” Nice info,
but who? A little more information on
who and where these people were plus the evidence of this conclusion is
something I would like to know.
Overall the information is well documented and you can learn about the
Dall, Rocky Mountain, Stone, and Desert Bighorns as well as all the variations
ans dubspecies. I enjoyed learning
things like “brooming” where the adult male rubs the ends of his horns on stone
to file off the excess that blocks his vision.
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