Forty-five sheep have died in the outbreak that began in October, baffling experts at the Wyoming Game and Fish Department.
. The Wyoming Game and Fish Department, which reported the outbreak, said that the disease has killed at least 45 animals since October, but the source of the infection remains unknown.and were named for their herds of wild, big-horned sheep. Today, the herd is mostly found around Devil's Canyon, which is located in the Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area, just north of the border between Wyoming and Montana.
The sheep were driven out of the area by hunters in the 1800s but were reintroduced in the 1970s. Their population has steadily grown to around 250 to 300 individuals, but the recent outbreak has wiped out over 10 percent of the herd. Still from the video shared by the Wyoming Game and Fish Department about the mysterious infection killing sheep in the Bighorn Mountains. Their population has steadily grown to around 250 to 300 individuals, but the recent outbreak has wiped out over 10 percent of the herd.GPS collars were previously added to 24 members of the herd to monitor their distribution, habitat use, seasonal migrations, and survival rate.
Corey Class, the wildlife management coordinator for the Cody Region, said that the majority of deaths occurred in ewes and lambs. Nasal and tonsil swabs were gathered from the sheep carcasses and analyzed in a lab in Laramie to identify any potential infections, and the results returned a clear culprit:
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