What is Bighorn sheep?
{{Taxobox | name = ''Ovis canadensis'' | status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1 | status_ref = <ref name=IUCN>{{cite IUCN |url=https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/15735/22146699 |publisher=The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species |title=Bighorn Sheep: ''Ovis canadensis'' |author1=Festa-Bianchet, M. |year=2020 |accessdate=July 22, 2021 |volume= 2020 |page=e.T15735A22146699 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-2.RLTS.T15735A22146699.en}}</ref> | trend = stable | image = Big Horn Seep 4304c.JPG | image_width = 200px | image_caption = Male (ram) | image2 = Bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis).JPG | image2_width = 180px | image2_caption = Female (ewe) | regnum = [[Animal]]ia | classis = [[Mammal]]ia | ordo = [[Artiodactyla]] | familia = [[Bovid]]ae | subfamilia = [[Caprinae]] | genus = ''[[Ovis]]'' | binomial = ''Ovis canadensis'' | range_map = Bighorn Sheep Ovis canadensis distribution map topo 2.png }} The '''bighorn sheep''' (''Ovis canadensis'') is a [[species]] of [[sheep]] that lives in the western half of [[North America]].<ref name=NPS>{{cite web|url=https://www.nps.gov/romo/learn/nature/bighorn_sheep.htm|publisher=[[United States National Park Service]]|accessdate=July 22, 2021|title=Bighorn Sheep}}</ref><ref name=Fish>{{cite web|title=Desert Bighorn Sheep|url=https://www.fws.gov/refuge/san_andres/wildlife/bighorn.html|accessdate=July 22, 2021|publisher=[[United States Fish and Wildlife Service]]|archive-date=July 23, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210723020204/https://www.fws.gov/refuge/san_andres/wildlife/bighorn.html|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name=NWF>{{cite web|url=https://www.nwf.org/Educational-Resources/Wildlife-Guide/Mammals/bighorn-sheep|accessdate=July 22, 2021|publisher=[[National Wildlife Foundation]]|title=Bighorn Sheep}}</ref><ref>Allen J.A. 1912. [http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/dspace/handle/2246/1793] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150507161155/http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/dspace/handle/2246/1793|date=2015-05-07}} Historical and nomenclatorial notes on North American sheep.