The Four Corners is a quadripoint, a site where four American states touch: Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah. It is the only point in the United States where the boundaries of four states meet. The area is situated on the Colorado Plateau, a sparsely populated region covering about 337,000 square kilometers.
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Ovis canadenis - The bighorn is a species of North American wild sheep. It migrated into the Americas about 750,000 years ago using the Bering Land Bridge. The size and curvature of the horns varies by sex and region; the Rocky Mountain subspecies has larger horns than those found in the Sierra Nevada variety. Females also have horns, but they are smaller and lack the bold curvature of the male’s. The horns of an adult male can weigh 14 kilos, amounting to 10% of an male’s weight or as heavy as the rest of the skeleton.
