Photo Credit: Jamie Ruggles

Big Horn Sheep [Ovis canadensis]

The Big Horn Sheep [Ovis canadensis] is a large North American species with a brown coat, which turns to bluish-grey in winter.

It is so named from the size of the horns of the ram, which often measure over 1 m/3.3 ft round the curve.

Classification: Ovis canadensis is in family Bovidae, order Artiodactyla