Relative allocation to horn and body growth in bighorn rams varies with resource availability

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Sexual selection and social rank in bighorn rams (2006, background): “…of ungulates, the larger and older males are typically harvested by hunters, giving an artificial reproductive advantage to slow-growing males (Coltman et al. 2003; Festa-Bianchet et al. 2004) and leading to a truncated male age structure, which may affect the social structure of the population.”
Undesirable evolutionary consequences of trophy hunting (2003, methodology): “We used quantitative genetic analyses, based on a partly genetically reconstructed pedigree from a 30-year study of a wild population in which trophy hunting targeted rams with rapidly growing horn”
Climate‐dependent allocation of resources to secondary sexual traits in red deer (2005, background): “rams grew slightly more horn for a given body mass as resource availability decreased (Festa-Bianchet et al. 2004).”