These young Dall Sheep were fun to watch as they 'practiced' butting heads. The photo was taken on a cold fall morning just after sunrise along the Turnagain Arm of Cook Inlet, Alaska. Both the male (rams) and female (ewes) have horns which continue to grow throughout the animals' lives (they are not shed or dropped each year like the antlers of deer family). The rams horns can grow into a full arc or curl, the ewes are usually shorter and blunter but do arc back over their head.
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