Endangered California Desert Big Horned Sheep live on Siilver Rock Mountain; there are only 14 on the mountain and three of the fourteen are shown here at the base of the mountain, golfing with the wealthy on Silver Rock Golf Course. Photo courtesy of Marash Martha
This is strange. Big Horned Sheep are known for their inaccessibility, for their skittishness at the near or far approach of any other than themselves. Has nature really been turned upside down, a foreshadowing of things to come, when lions will lay down with lambs? Or is this a drug rehab centre remote for the wealthy who have become oblivious to the detritus (droppings) of the world?
ReplyDeleteHope the golf course doesn't spray its lawn with insecticide! Otherwise that may be the end of the last 14 Big Horned Sheep on Silver Rock Mountain!
ReplyDeleteThe insecticide, I should think would not kill them, just make them sickly. In any case, the photo is a strange one. I wonder if they 'did time' in a petting zoo.
DeleteTalk about low priced lawn care! Has the economy become that bad? Or are these 'big horned sheep' a hybrid? No, no, they are drones made to look cute and inoffensive. Ah, the rich are different from the rest of us. For me, I will go along with Huck, and light out for the real, the real wilderness.
ReplyDeleteThe animals are not tame they are wild but they've acclimated the friendliness of the people!
ReplyDeleteTthus far, there have been no reports of their horns charging and hurting golfers.
Probably because the golfers have their own "horns", the handy weapon known as a golf club!
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