more than the bones that make up my whole body. I use my horns mostly to fight
to see who is the most dominate sheep in my herd, and whoever wins the fight will
be able to be the leader of my herd. The resounding clash of my horns could be
heard echoing though the Rocky Mountains for hours, until there is a victor as I
heard when I was younger.
Chapter Three
My species isn’t on top of the food chain in my community, because we are
herbivores or plant eaters, which feed on different types of plants and grasses
around the Colorado River. Wolves have been reintroduced within my community
and frighten us and to control the populations of Bighorn Sheep in Wyoming.
During the time that the wolves were reintroduced the number of my species and
friends has decreased in Wyoming. Bighorn Sheep have interactions with different
species in our community such as with Mountain Lions, and Wolves, which live in
our community. In this interaction, between Mountain Lions and Wolves is that
we are the prey to them but we can run and jump higher and further than most.
Species of Bighorn Sheep populations are affected by human activity
because humans mine in my community and although that helps keep the wolves
and mountain lions away sometimes it still frightens me. There have been studies
that my species is sensitive to human activity, especially mining. Some of these