Bighorn Sheep Dietary. Turner (1973) documented 43 species of plants in diet. Diets of rams and ewes did not differ annually.
While most bighorn sheep prefer to use an established home range during their lifetime, some colonization of adjacent habitat occurs. Diets of desert bighorn sheep (rams and ewes combined) from elephant mountain consisted of 50% browse, 35% forbs, 11% grasses, and 4% succulents.
Bighorn Sheep Diets Consisted Of 50% Browse, 35% Forbs, 11% Grasses, And Succulents.
2—percent occurrence in diet of 13 species of plants, each of which composed ‡4% of diet of bighorn sheep and mule deer in at least one habitat (see table 3).
Desert Bighorn Sheep Are Opportunistic Herbivores And Ruminants.
Mountain goats are true herbivores, eating mainly grasses, sedges, and other alpine.
Turner (1973) Documented 43 Species Of Plants In Diet.
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Annual home ranges of sierra bighorn.
Bighorn Sheep Diets Consisted Of 50% Browse, 35% Forbs, 11% Grasses, And 4% Succulents.