Specific Physics of Nature/Wildlife Photography -- Dall Sheep of Alaska

- The Dall Sheep (Ovis Dalli) are my personal favorite subject to photograph.
    - I spend the most time photographing the Dall Sheep of Denali National Park and Preserve located in the Alaska range.
    - Dall Sheep live in the mountainous terrain which offers protection from predators such as wolf and bear.

    - The sheep can easily outmaneuver almost any other creature on the mountains. They are designed to be able to move, run, and jump up and down the steep mountainous cliffs with ease.
    - To calculate the distance, motion, and force behind the Dall Sheep's movements, you would use the same basic formulas used two sections ago, where if you knew some parameters of its movement, you could calculate the others.

    - v = v(initial) + a×t
    - x = x(initial) + v(initial)×t + .5a×(t^2)
    - (v^2) = v^2(initial) + 2a(x - x(initial))

    - (v = velocity, a = acceleration, t = time, x = position)

    - The Dall Sheep males, called rams, also spar with one another and complete for female attention during their mating season known as the rut. This sparing involves running at, and head butting each other with their huge horns. They can charge at each other with speeds up to 40 miles per hour and adult rams typically weigh anywhere from 262 - 280 lbs.

 - F = m × a (m = mass, a = acceleration)

- They can ram each other with a force of 2271.07+ N. That's a lot of force!
- Ram skulls are designed to take high force impacts. They are very thick and reinforced when compared to human skulls. Most times, they escape the sparring matches relatively unharmed, unless they fall off a cliff or some other anomaly occurs.