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• The bighorn sheep are sociable animals and live together in groups.
• Bighorns live in the highest elevations in the Sierra Nevada.
• In the winter they huddle together on the tops of mountains where it is too windy for snow to collect.

• Black bears can be black, brown, or even blonde.
• Bears love to eat berries, insects, and plants.
• Cubs stay with their mother until they are about 1 and a half years old.

• The Mount Lyell Salamander is patterned like granite, which helps it hide in Yosemite.
• These salamanders like to live near glaciers.
• Its tail has a sticky grip that helps it climb rocks.

• Deer eat leaves and twigs in the spring and summer, acorns in the fall, and evergreens in the winter.
• Male deer lose their antlers after the fall every year.
• Fawns (baby deer) do not have a scent, which keeps them safe from predators.

• This squirrel lives on the ground around oaks, not in trees like most other squirrels.
• Some ground squirrels hibernate when it is too cold, others “aestivate” when it is too hot.  In both situations they sleep and are dormant until it is nice outside.
• Unfortunately for the ground squirrel, he is an important part of most predators’ diets.