Growing up in a village in the foothills of the French Alps, Francis Roucher used to hunt the chamois. But on the day one of his shots went astray, Roucher was transformed from hunter to game manager, working to reverse the chamois’ decline. Download a transcript of this podcast Image Credit: Marcin Białek, Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA read moreDuration: 6:20Published: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 15:03:08 +0000
Photos on Flickr taught me that bighorn sheep lived at the bottom of the Rio Grande gorge near Taos, NM. Now I know they spend time on the rim, as well.
Here are three rams encountered on Labor Day weekend, 2011, and a group of ewes with a lamb seen in early July.
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The Lechwe, or Southern Lechwe, (Kobus leche) is an antelope found in Botswana, Zambia, south-eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, north-eastern Namibia, and eastern Angola, especially in the Okavango Delta, Kafue Flats and Bangweulu Swamps.