Open Access
How to translate text using browser tools
1 April 1992 Cranial Asymmetry in a Dall Sheep Ram (Ovis dalli dalli)
M. Hoefs, T. D. Bunch
Author Affiliations +
Abstract

The horns of a 13-yr-old Dall sheep ram (Ovis dalli dalli) from the Sheep Mountain herd in Kluane National Park (Yukon, Canada) had unique characteristics. The right horn was 1,127 mm long, while the left horn was only 861 mm long and compressed and distorted at its base. The reduced growth of the left horn was due to chronic epidermitis and osteomyelitis of the cornual process, which began when the ram was 5 yr of age.

Hoefs and Bunch: Cranial Asymmetry in a Dall Sheep Ram (Ovis dalli dalli)
M. Hoefs and T. D. Bunch "Cranial Asymmetry in a Dall Sheep Ram (Ovis dalli dalli)," Journal of Wildlife Diseases 28(2), 330-332, (1 April 1992). https://doi.org/10.7589/0090-3558-28.2.330
Received: 9 March 1991; Published: 1 April 1992
KEYWORDS
case report
Dall sheep
horn aberration
Ovis dalli dalli
skull infection
Back to Top