Baby sheep are called lambs, and mature sheep are called sheep. Domesticated sheep (Ovis aries) are ruminants (cud-chewing animals) which humans use for meat, milk and wool. Sheep were ...

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Before European settlers arrived in the 1700s and 1800s, thousands of bighorn sheep are thought to have occupied the Sierra ...

Although they once populated the High Sierra by the thousands, European settlement of the West brought domestic sheep and other threats to the bighorns' habitat, and the species is thought to have ...