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  • Ovis canadensis [underlined] Food:- A flock of 60 ewes + young examined this morning was feeding for 15 minutes almost equally upon Dasiphora + grass. About 450 animal minutes on each. Movement:- A flock seen yesterday had moved just some 500 yards during 24 hours Kills:- Found a dead ram - winter kill. No bones broken except the ends of some ribs chewed. left mandible swollen with actinomycosis Age 11 years Enemies:- Mt [Mountain] Lion shot had stomach full of sheep stomach + hair. Jasper. Alta. [Alberta] May 21/46.[1946] Census of Sunwapta Pass flock. 19 rams, 12 ewes 2 lambs Food: Along the high ridge east of the pass the grass clumps were all heavily eaten. This grass was mostly sheep fescue + alpine fescue. At present the sheep were still feeding primarily upon grass, merely moving down hill to the more recently exposed slopes.
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