Brief by Central Staff
Wildlife – June 2004 – Colorado Central Magazine
A group of researchers, most of them with Canadian affiliations, have concluded that it does — and the result is to produce animals less desirable to hunters.
They studied the Colorado state animal, the Bighorn Sheep, in the Alberta province of Canada, and examined data going back to 1971.
It turned out that bighorn males are getting smaller — they weigh less, and their horns don’t grow as large as formerly.
