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The assorted Animals section contains over 200 images separated on four pages, three of which detail Bighorn Sheep, Coyotes, and Moose, and one page with both Mule Deer and River Otters. This index page is an Overview with seven sample images from each of the four section pages.
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Bighorn Sheep Coyote Moose Mule Deer and River Otter
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Bighorn Sheep Gardner Canyon 1302 M
A group of Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep on a steep hillside in Gardner Canyon, near the North Entrance to Yellowstone National Park. The rams typically live in bachelor groups separate from the ewes and young, only joining the herd during the mating season which begins in November. These images were taken in early October, in the late morning.
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Bighorn Sheep Family Gardner Canyon 1248
A juvenile, lamb and female Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep pose on a slope in Gardner Canyon.
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Bighorn Sheep Juvenile Gardner Canyon 1278
A juvenile Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep poses for a portrait on a steep slope in Gardner Canyon.
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Bighorn Sheep Lamb Gardner Canyon 1288 M
A 1000 x 1610 portrait of a Bighorn Sheep lamb watching the photographer from atop a boulder on a slope in Gardner Canyon, Yellowstone National Park.
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Bighorn Sheep Female Gardner Canyon 1230
The Gardner River forms a backdrop in this close portrait of a female Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep in Gardner Canyon.
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Bighorn Sheep Female Gardner Canyon 1263
A female Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep descends a steep rocky slope in Gardner Canyon.
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Bighorn Sheep Female Gardner Canyon 1283
This female Bighorn seems astonished that the photographer was able to climb the slope for a closeup.
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Coyote Tower Junction 0326
An 850mm telephoto portrait of a Coyote in the autumn grass near Tower Junction in Yellowstone.
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Coyote Tower Junction 9303
A 420mm telephoto portrait of a coyote in the autumn grass near Tower Junction in Yellowstone.
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Coyote Obsidian Cliffs 0779 M
A coyote enters a game trail in this 200mm telephoto image taken near Obsidian Cliffs.
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Coyote Pounce Willow Park 0621
A coyote pounces on a vole in the autumn grass in Willow Park.
This stiff-legged pounce is typical behavior for coyotes when they are “mousing”.
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Coyote Pounce 6791
A coyote performs his characteristic stiff-legged pounce to catch a vole who is hiding in the brush and snow alongside Obsidian Creek near Obsidian Cliffs in Yellowstone.
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Coyote Winter Hunt 6818 M
A coyote poses for a 420mm telephoto portrait alongside Obsidian Creek, during a late-winter hunt near Obsidian Cliffs in Yellowstone National Park in early May.
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Coyote Winter Hunt 6821
A coyote prepares to jump over Obsidian Creek during a late-winter hunt near Obsidian Cliffs in Yellowstone.
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Moose at Dawn Floating Island Lake 0183
A female moose approaches the edge of Floating Island Lake on the Blacktail Plateau at dawn.
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Moose at Dawn Floating Island Lake 0233
A female moose looks out over Floating Island Lake at dawn, waiting for the sunrise.
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Moose at Dawn Floating Island Lake 0241
Moose have a distinctive long, bulbous, drooping muzzle with an upper lip that overhangs the lower. Both male and female moose have a “bell”, a dewlap of skin and hair which hangs below the throat. They do not have upper incisors, and nip off twigs between the bony upper palate and lower incisors.
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Moose at Sunrise Floating Island Lake 0272
A female moose watches as the rising sun paints the waters of Floating Island Lake in late September.
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Moose at Sunrise Floating Island Lake 0293
A female moose stands atop a small hill near Floating Island Lake and watches the sunrise.
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Moose at Sunrise Floating Island Lake 0304
A female moose in the golden glow of sunrise, heading towards the forest beyond Floating Island Lake.
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Moose Norris Junction 7059
A male moose with its horns just beginning to bud, near Norris Junction in late winter. Only male moose grow antlers, which can be seen as they begin to break through the skin. The male sheds its antlers after the mating season to conserve his energy for the long winter. The new antlers grow to full size in three to five months, and can be up to six feet across.
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Mule Deer Northeast Yellowstone 0258
A Mule Deer doe in the early morning sunlight, in the forest below the Northeast Entrance to Yellowstone.
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Mule Deer Tower Junction 9365
A Mule Deer in the autumn scrub in the hills of the Blacktail Plateau west of Tower Junction.
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Mule Deer Tower Junction 9374
A Mule Deer munches some succulent autumn leaves while foraging a hillside on the Blacktail Plateau, west of Tower Junction in Yellowstone at mid-morning.
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River Otter Madison River 9696 M
A North American River Otter and her four juveniles at play on their den, a massive group of logs which have snagged on a boulder in the Madison River near the Seven Mile Bridge.
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River Otter Madison River 9708
A North American River Otter poses on its log jam den in the Madison River at mid-day.
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River Otter Madison River 9749
Two juvenile river otters examine scent marks on the boulder behind their log jam which is used as a latrine. These scent marks signal species identity, advertise reproductive status, mark a territory and communicate social status and identity to group members. Otters scent mark with glands on their feet and the anal sacs.
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River Otter Madison River 9802 M
The female river otter sticks her tongue out while waving to the photographer from a perch on her log jam den.
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