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Alaska Wildlife

stone_sheep-ewes.jpg - A small herd of Stone sheep ewes, down from the mountain looking for salt spread on the roads that melts the ice during the winter, along Muncho Lake shoreline on Alaska Highway. They posed a real traffic hazard on a road heavily used by tourists in recreational vehicles, locals in pick-up trucks, and long distance truckers. Stone sheep are a wild sheep of the mountainous regions of northwest North America and are related to the Dall sheep. While the Dall sheep is white to slate brown with yellowish brown horns, the Stone sheep is a slaty brown with some white patches on the rump and inside the hind legs and a somewhat heavier horn. Both males and females have horns but the female’s horns are shorter and not as massive as the male.

A small herd of Stone sheep ewes, down from the mountain looking for salt spread on the roads that melts the ice during the winter, along Muncho Lake shoreline on Alaska Highway. They posed a real traffic hazard on a road heavily used by tourists in recreational vehicles, locals in pick-up trucks, and long distance truckers. Stone sheep are a wild sheep of the mountainous regions of northwest North America and are related to the Dall sheep. While the Dall sheep is white to slate brown with yellowish brown horns, the Stone sheep is a slaty brown with some white patches on the rump and inside the hind legs and a somewhat heavier horn. Both males and females have horns but the female’s horns are shorter and not as massive as the male.

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