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17 November 2022 BIGHORN SHEEP LAMB STRANDED ON A CLIFF FOR ALMOST THREE MONTHS
Michael McTee
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Abstract

In late May 2021, I spotted a Bighorn Sheep lamb (Ovis canadensis) stranded in a cliffside hollow in the Rock Creek drainage near Philipsburg, Montana. For nearly 3 months, a ewe returned to nurse the lamb. In early August, the lamb likely fell to its death.

Michael McTee "BIGHORN SHEEP LAMB STRANDED ON A CLIFF FOR ALMOST THREE MONTHS," Northwestern Naturalist 103(3), 269-270, (17 November 2022). https://doi.org/10.1898/1051-1733-103.3.269
Received: 18 November 2021; Accepted: 5 January 2022; Published: 17 November 2022
KEYWORDS
Bighorn Sheep
fall
lamb
Montana
nurse
Ovis canadensis
Rock Creek
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