Experience the call of the wild as two Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep rams clash in a struggle for power! We have managed to acquire a limited number of this unique and perhaps even revolutionary! Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep. The dynamic design by Canadian wildlife. Artist Claudio DAngelo features the clashing titans of the wind-swept crag – the powerful Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep. As the frigid winds of late autumn howl along the uninhabitable cliffs and high passes of the Rocky Mountain range, a colossal battle unfolds beyond the reach of human eyes. Two Rocky Mountain Bighorn rams square off, rising on hind legs, only to launch themselves at one another at speeds of more than 20 miles per hour. Skull meets skull, horn hammers horn, and the resulting crash sounds like a thunderclap, heard more than a mile away! Investment Note – Important – Please Read! This one troy ounce silver coin depicts the powerful Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep. 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The Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep. As the frigid winds of late autumn howl along the uninhabitable cliffs and high passes of the Rocky Mountain range, a titanic battle unfolds beyond the scope of human eyes. Two Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep. Rams square off, rising on hind legs, only to launch themselves at one another at speeds of more than 20 miles per hour. Skull meets skull, horn hammers horn, and the resulting crash can be heard a mile or more away. Scientists believe that the Bighorn Sheep of North America (including the Rocky Mountain, Sierra Nevada, and Desert subspecies) originally arrived via Siberias Bering land bridge some 20,000 years ago, reaching a population of more than one million by the middle of the nineteenth century. Between 1850 and 1900, however, this population drastically declined in the face of habitat loss and disease introduced by domestic animals. Today, conservation efforts have helped to stabilize the total Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep. Population at about 42,000, but the species is unlikely to ever again reach its pre-settlement numbers. Nevertheless, the stalwart Rocky Mountain Bighorn subspecies. Remains robust, both collectively and individually. Its powerful body, covered in brown fur with white patches, weighs between 65 and 118 kilograms for males and 43 and 83 kilograms for females. Very large rams can weigh in at more than 120 kilograms at the height of health going into the autumn rut. In June, the animals shed their winter hair and grow the new coat that will take them, eventually, into autumn once again. The rams massive curved horns are instantly recognizable, and people who see these horns in person are often amazed at their size. Large horns can weigh as much as the animals entire skeleton (up to 14 kilograms), measure 125 centimeters long, and have a circumference at the base of 450 millimeters or more. Bighorns do not shed their horns. The horns have an outer sheath of material similar to our fingernails. A deep annulus ridge is produced annually in the sheath when horn growth stops during the winter months, making it possible to read an animals age much as one might count rings in a tree trunk. The bony cores of the horns and large fluid-filled spaces in the cranium buffer the force of clashes so that head-butting males do not seem to feel the effects of collisions that would instantly kill most other mammals. Although the rams horns garner the greatest attention, many of the Bighorns other adaptations are noteworthy too. Their eyes, for instance, though wide-set, sit far forward, giving this denizen of wide-open spaces a broad field of vision. Its hooves are unique as well. An external buttress of modified toenail grips cliff shelves as small as 5 centimeters deep, while a soft inner pad can adhere to almost any surface. Like all ruminants, Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep. Can store large quantities of undigested grass in their four part stomachs, allowing them to quickly move into the relative safety of mountain cliffs to regurgitate, chew, and digest their food. Their digestive process also extracts considerable liquid from their food so that they can go without water for long periods. The Bighorn has a well-established social structure where rams and ewes live in separate herds and generally meet only during mating season. Female herds tend to consist of mothers and daughters, generally led by an older matriarch. Young males will leave their mother group to find a bachelor herd at about 3 years of age. Among the Bighorn populations in Canada, the lambing season starts in early May and peaks in the middle of June. Ewes bear a single lamb annually (with the exception of occasional twins), usually going into brief seclusion for the birth and earliest days of the lambs life. After two or three days, the newborn walks behind its mother to rejoin the safety of the herd. In Canada, the Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep. Inhabits the Rocky Mountains of central and eastern British Columbia and western Alberta. While they do not technically migrate, herds travel seasonally from highland habitats in the summer to lower, south-facing valleys in the winter, where they can forage beneath the snow for grasses. Although the Rocky Mountain Bighorn does face predation by eagles, cougars, lynx, bears, coyotes, wolves, and humans, disease and habitat loss are its greatest threats. The Royal Canadian Mint refines the purest silver in the world. This one troy ounce silver coin is 99.99% pure! Designed by artist Claudio D’Angelo, two Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep. Skull meets skull, horn hammers horn, and the resulting crash sounds like a thunderclap, heard more than a mile away!! The date and denomination are also indicated. Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II. In profile facing right. This portrait, the fourth effigy of the queen to appear on Canadian coinage, was executed by the artist Susanna Blunt. The legend ELIZABETH II D. REGINA (Elizabeth II, Queen by the Grace of God) also appears. The coin is encapsulated inside an environmentally friendly, full color presentation case, lined with white flock. A certificate of authenticity is integrated into the box. 9999 Fine (Pure) Silver. Talisman World Coins and Medals has been in business for more than 20 years and is one of the largest world coin direct distributors and wholesalers in the world. The item “Canada 2014 Wildlife in Motion $100 Commemorative Bighorn Sheep Pure Silver” is in sale since Tuesday, August 26, 2014. This item is in the category “Coins & Paper Money\Coins\ Canada\Commemorative”. The seller is “talismancoins” and is located in Saint Louis, Missouri. This item can be shipped worldwide.

• Circulated/Uncirculated: Uncirculated
• Country/Region of Manufacture: Canada