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Ascertaining Selenium Content in Soil from Beck’s Bridge Mineral Licks

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Bayarmagnai, Battuya Role :Text(marcrelator)
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Laramie, Wyoming
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2008-04-23

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Whiskey Mountain bighorn sheep herd was one of the largest in North America. In the last couple of decades the population of this herd has been cut in half. After intense observations and research, one hypothesis for the reason of the die-off has been proposed: the selenium deficiency in diet might be the cause of the severe muscular dystrophy observed especially in lambs which enables them to escape from the predators. The ewes were observed to travel from their summer range on Middle Mountain (Wind River Range) to an area called Beck’s Bridge mineral licks and ingest soil after which they would go back to their lambs and nurse. The lambs recovered quickly. In this particular study, we hypothesized that the soil from Beck’s Bridge mineral licks would possibly contain more selenium than the soil on the Middle Mountain. Twenty seven soil samples have been collected from the mineral lick area where the bighorn sheep have been observed to eat soil. The soil samples were tested for their content of selenium, nitrates, phosphates and other elements. This study will contribute to the larger project of testing the hypothesis of the connection between available selenium and lamb survival. note
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Bighorn sheep--Wyoming--Fremont County--Nutrition; Lambs--Wyoming--Fremont County--Mortality; Soil and animal nutrition

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