Anza Borrego Desert Bighorn Sheep outtakes

[Music] mother yeah light in there where we get some good shots of sheep and vehicles right where those guys are yeah really hits home when you see a sheep in the same picture a big [Music] truck that's what I General up of what he saying these guys are out of they don't know what is he trying to get down to the water yeah he's going to be he's going to be watching for any movement in the Water Area you know he's going to be yeah you can see he's about a 2/3 or 3/4 C animal that's probably 6 to 7 years old and he'll uh stay on the rocky areas like that and keep an eye out for any potential danger coyotes or does he send say dangerous probably not right now he's he's keeping an eye on us but we haven't made any quick moves or done anything to Spook him yet he seems to be looking right at us yeah and he they have tremendous eyesight he's probably been watching us for an hour or more you can see that he is pretty well filled out he's he's probably not really stressed for water do they do they look differently when they're really thirsty or yeah they'll be uh really gaunt in the in the rear protection there you'll you'll be able to see the Bon sticking out see that that right horn this is a different Big Horn he disappeared in the rocks and he should be coming up on this little hard to tell at this distance but how tall is he how big an animal is they're about 36 in at the shoulder so counting his head he's about 4 feet you know if you were standing next to him he he'd come uh his head would come just about to your shoulder a little bit lower as he stands there his head's held very high and looks much bigger now if we spooked him would he uh run or would he walk away way do they if we made a a quick run towards him he'd probably turn and run back up into those big rocks if we walked towards him slowly he' probably turn and disappear over the the small Ridge there and then make his way slowly he's you know he's he's seen humans before I know he's seen me before he watched me for about an hour the other day you know do do you get to know them so well that you name them yeah we have we have a couple of them named I don't try to get so attached to them that each one has a name but there's some that are so outstanding you just have to have to give him a little bit of a name he's just checking us out right just like we're checking him and if we remain calm and motionless and he'll drink for like 3 to 5 10 minutes it's that time of the day it's warm enough he wouldn't mind a little little thirst quencher yeah it seemed to be warming up it's it's probably up close to 100 right now 98 or 100 100 that's just about the temperature they begin to physically need the water what is their range from down here in the summer when they go for water how high do they go in these mountains they'll go up to over 4,000 ft to the base of the sharel where the brush just gets gets much too thick they like to have a a clear view like he has right now not thick brush he has a a good view for many miles in all Direction right now and uh they're not like deer where they like to go into thick brush and will tolerate the going through uh tunnels and mans and Eden sumac well they say that they're a very timid animal yet he doesn't seem too awfully afraid of us he has no real reason to be afraid of us right now being in a in a state park he hasn't been subject to to shooting and honey see I think sheep I think that other Ram's coming right up behind wind start probably sniffing the wind what's their sense of smell like is it good their eyesight you say is good their eyesight is very excellent and and so is their sense of smell now he's he's starting to make his way down the Rocks I think he's going to be coming down to the creek he's feeding on some grass there their sense of smell has been played down by biologist but uh recently they they've been coming out with some newer material and their sense of smell from my experience there since the smell is excellent he rubbing his back on a rock there okay here he goes very surefooted all the way yeah there's other she yeah he's up on top same rock that he was on before number two was way up on top okay you can see the difference in curl how we can characterize these sheep that that L has a has a wide flare to his right horn and other one is very tight very tight Cur something's bothering that there the one the second one's right on top right above all the way at the top could be more I want you can see the color in his eyes are dark and shiny there at the at the base just for a while taking a taste of right there Mormon tea they generally keep track of each other when they're traveling together like this you can see how you just you just look and see where that other animal was yeah and the other Ram up top keeps glancing back behind him and keeps glancing down over this way as if there's maybe a band of use in the area it's still pretty the rut but the this activity this animals going into right here with this bush is H kind of indicative of the rut they begin uh getting kind ofous it's bad pun but they butt rocks and trees and bushes they'll beat the cat the ground see that second sheep how he's turning that right horn really well what a shot look at that you can see that Cactus about 6 feet to the right of him Jean M uh that Cactus was was uh beat by a a large Ram in 1972 and eaten out he ate about a gallon worth of that pulp of the top of that quick okay these right behind it is a uh probably about a three to four month old lamb and we have two mature and another lamb so what we've got all together uh we've got four 's and three Lambs which is very good lamming success and uh and apparently they uh some of those were already down at water and I think that's what the other lamp or the other ramp across the canyon was looking at a while ago cuz he's coming down yeah and he sees it as it's it's fairly safe if she stands there they'll stand there they won't go in front of her most likely you can see the old long face appearance that the that the older females have distinguish them from young males who have about the same horn size I'm going to get a picture of this my so this is great this is just really good yeah I can see it see yeah we don't know where where they came from I said that one thing about these animals are totally unpredictable There She Goes she's something's not right for her they could run they could run up that hill and come right back down five minutes she's been nursed you can see her extended other her there use are very protective of the of the Lambs that'll protect them at times from coyote attacks and here comes one out on the Rock they'll uh they'll almost constantly keep an eye on the on the Lambs how old is the small one there the lamp can you tell that lower one is uh it's probably about 3 months the one up above looks very small yeah and then there's the other one's probably a month and a half two months and then there's a larger a larger lamb it's a an older Ram lamb they have much longer horns both these other Lambs are females right on to right down to the [Music] water [Music] on land right behind panr [Music] coming think you pry cute [Music] did you go where to State I went to State oh did you how long have you been working the state park four years four years is that just summer or is that the mainly Summers you know during college and [Music] stuff no work like [Music] Valley go ahead and cl it yeah I don't [Music] know put they put it on that [Music] way yeah