Imagine yourself immersed in a chilly, blue, three-dimensional world, one where vision isn’t much use but sound travels far. That’s the leap of the imagination demanded of scientists like Volker Deecke who study killer whales. Deecke and his colleagues must sort myth from science to learn the secrets of these consummate predators. Ari Daniel Shapiro reports from the Shetland Islands. Photo Credit: Orcinus orca (Linnaeus, 1758). Public Domain. read moreDuration: 5:30Published: Wed, 25 Jul 2012 15:31:01 +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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