Some fresh snow coming down over a bighorn ram. You wonder what goes through their minds as winter approaches. The bighorn sheep are one of the few animals that come together to survive the harsh winter roaming in mixed herds of males and females. The rams then segregate themselves for the summer . The horns of bighorn sheep (ovis canadensis) rams can weigh up to 14 kg (30 lb), while the sheep themselves weigh up to 140 kg (300 lb) . This is about one and a half times as large as a domestic sheep. Jasper National Park, Alberta, Canada.
This shot was taken standing beneath some forest giants in Mt Field National Park. Swamp gums (Eucalyptus regnans) are the tallest flowering plants in the world reaching heights of 100m. The trees in this shot reach up to about 80m and were growing when Abel Tasman first sighted Tasmania in 1642. Mt Field National Park, Tasmania, Australia
Australasian Gannet (Morus serrator) at Muriwai Beach, North Island, New Zealand.
