A zoo photo, but I like it nonetheless. That’s partly because the zoo enclosure essentially consists of a fence across a corner of actual bighorn habitat. This is kinda the patron saint endangered species of the hills around here. (The fringe-toed lizard gets the flats.)

Also notable today: the jaguar in its large enclosure, mesh fence between us so I didn’t even bother with photos. He watched the passing young children with a particular gleam in his eye — a friend on Twitter referred to it as the “dessert cart” gaze — and then noticed a rabbit just outside the enclosure, treating a few of us to a very dramatic few minutes of recreational stalking. Impressive.

They used to live here too, a century ago or so. Maybe they will again.

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   Karen 2011 05 30 at 12:31:44 pm

   I live in the San Francisco Bay Area, and there’s been a series of ads running on a local radio news channel selling Reno/Tahoe as a place to visit, voiced by a self-identified Bighorn Sheep.  They’re vaguely amusing the first time you hear them, tiresome the 20th—normal for radio ads.  But the notion of a Bighorn on skis stays with me. :-)