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Bighorn

[ US /ˈbɪɡˌhɔɹn/ ]
[ UK /bˈɪɡhɔːn/ ]
NOUN
  1. a river that flows from central Wyoming to the Yellowstone River in southern Montana

How To Use Bighorn In A Sentence

  • The five national and sixty six provincial parks contain a healthy population of bighorn sheep, mountain goats, elk, bears, wolves, bison and woodland caribou.
  • While the bighorn sheep, the black bear, the mountain lion and the bobcat inhabit higher elevations and are elusive to visitors, one is more likely to sight the elk and the moose in the valley.
  • Keep an eye out for wildlife: Elk and even bears can be spotted in the valleys, while mountain goats and bighorn sheep live higher up.
  • Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument memorizes one of the last armed efforts of the Northern Plains Indians to preserve their ancestral way of life.
  • Desert bighorn sheep are found mainly in rugged country.
  • Amidst this wild and striking scenery, Captain Bonneville, for the first time, beheld flocks of the ahsahta or bighorn, an animal which frequents these cliffs in great numbers. The Adventures of Captain Bonneville
  • Similarly, the arrival of burros represented a change in the environment of bighorn sheep on which natural selection will work to produce bighorn sheep better adapted to compete for water.
  • We bushwhacked and scree-slid back down, but the bighorn faded back into the rocks.
  • Deep gorges slice through the Canyonlands' vast sagebrush steppe, which supports one of the largest concentrations of California bighorn sheep in the West.
  • Although large flocks with herders and dogs frightened them off, there were always strays to investigate; and domestic ewes in estrus were irresistible to bighorn rams.
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