Ram   s Eye

Photograph by Dawn Wilson , National Geographic Your Shot

During a recent trip to Wyoming to photograph wildlife, I made a point of stopping in the North Fork Canyon outside Cody, Wyoming, to photograph the bighorn sheep during their annual rut, writes Your Shot member Dawn Wilson . The weather had been warm, so activity was a bit low. But on my final drive out of the canyon before heading home, I came upon two rams fighting nonstop, to the point that each had a bloody nose. An hour into the battle, this ram, which wound up being defeated, stopped for the briefest of moments to look at me, almost like a plea for help.

Wilson s picture recently appeared in Your Shot s Daily Dozen.

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