Column for 1 April, 2025.
We
have all seen photographs of lambs playing, we have probably all seen
photographs of bighorn sheep lambs playing at head-butting. Now, from Nine-Mile
Canyon in Utah we have photographic proof of adult bighorn sheep playing, not
head-butting, but patticake.
I
took the photograph in 1993, of the entire panel in question in Nine-Mile Canyon, Utah.
In
this close-up you can see it more clearly. Now, I know this seems a little
far-fetched, but the only other possible explanation is that they are Siamese
Twins with two grown sheep sharing the same hoofs, and that seems really a
bridge too far.
So,
now I find it encouraging that with the state of the world as it is we can
still learn something new about the animals that share the planet with us – at
least on April First.