Pronghorn (Antilocapra americana)
Description The antelope is a small, deerlike mammal with black, pronged horns on both males and females. They have only two toes on each foot.
Pronghorn (Antilocapra americana)
Pronghorn are the fastest land mammal in North America. These animals can run at top speeds of 58 mph for short distances and can cruise steadily at 32 mph.
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Pronghorn
Antilocapra americana americana (Ord)
Description: The pronghorn can be distinguished by: 1) light cinnamon-brown to tan color with black to dark brown markings around the outer edges and tips of the ears, over the eyes, ...
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PRONGHORN FACTS
Description
The Pronghorn looks like a medium sized deer. It is tan in color with white underside, chest and rump, and white markings on neck. The neck has a short black mane.
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Pronghorn
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or prongbuck, hoofed herbivorous mammal, Antilocapra americana, of the W United States and N Mexico.
Pronghorn - Antilocapra americana.
Pronghorns are deer-like mammals that have light-brown fur on their body, a white belly, a white rump, and black markings on their face and neck. Their head and eyes are large and they have a stout body.
Pronghorn Antelope
Mammal. The pronghorn antelope is not really an antelope, but the sole descendent of an ancient deer-like family.
Pronghorns are the fastest mammals in North America; they can run over 50 miles per hour (80 kph). These graceful mammals are the only living animal with doubly-branched horns. Pronghorns are closely related to antelopes.
Pronghorn
Antilocapra americana
The Pronghorn (Antilocapra americana) is the only native North American antelope. It is essentially western in distribution, occurring from the grasslands of the great plains westward nearly to the Pacific coast.
Pronghorns are some of the fastest animals on Earth. Although they cannot match the speed of the cheetah, pronghorns can run very fast for much longer. Some pronghorns have been known to run at 25-30 miles per hour for over 15 miles.
Pronghorn (Antilocapra americana)
The Pronghorn
The pronghorn lives in Saskatchewan and Alberta, and also the United States.
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Fast Facts
Type: Mammal Diet: Herbivore Average life span in captivity: 11 years Size: Head and body, 3.
Pronghorn or prongbuck Mammal living member of the family Of (Antilocapridae) only found in the North America and Mexico but mostly on the Southwest United States.
Pronghorns travel in small herds of 2 to 15 animals. They signal each other by raising the white hair on their rumps, which flashes in the sunlight for long distances in the relative flatness of the prairies.
Pronghorn
Taxonomy Antilocapra americana [Ord, 1815]. Citation: In Guthrie, New Geogr., Hist. Coml. Grammar., Philadelphia, 2nd ed., 2:292. Type locality: USA, Plains and Highlands of the Missouri River.
Pronghorn Clubtail Behaviour
No observations regarding Pronghorn Clubtail behavior have been submitted to the database yet.
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Pronghorn
Order Artiodactyla : Family Antilocapridae : Antilocapra americana (Ord) ...
The pronghorn has a deer-like body. It weighs between 90 and 120 pounds and stands about 31/2 feet tall from shoulder to feet. It has a tan to reddish brown body. Its cheeks, belly, rump, chest and inner legs are white.
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Industrial development undermines winter grazing grounds.
The Pronghorn
Antilocapra americana
Entirely unique on this planet, the Pronghorn's scientific name, Antilocapra americana, means "American antelope goat.
Sonoran Pronghorn
Antilocapra Americana
Known as "prairie ghosts" because they are so elusive, the Sonoran pronghorn is the fastest land mammal in North America.
Pronghorn are endemic to North America, and are the only living members of the family Antilocapridae. In the Pleistocene, about a dozen species roamed the continent.
Pronghorns are thought to have evolved during the Pleistocene (1.8 million to 10,000 years ago) with a cheetahlike cat, which explains their great speed.
The pronghorn is the only animal in the world whose horns are branched or pronged.
Pronghorns
Although known commonly as antelopes to ranchers"and singers of "Home on the Range""pronghorn are not true antelopes, technically speaking. Their eponymous pronged horns demonstrate why.
Pronghorn have hypsodont, selenodont cheek teeth. As in deer and bovids, the upper incisors are replaced by a horny pad, and the lower canine is incisor-like. The dental formula is 0/3, 0/1, 3/3, 3/3 = 32.
About Pronghorn
Pronghorns live in the open prairie where speed is essential for survival. It is the fastest hoofed animal in the world, cruising at 30 mph, but reaching over 50 mph in short bursts.
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Cougars feed on a variety of prey throughout their range, including birds, mice, capybara, pronghorn, and moose. In North America, large ungulates, primarily deer, form the bulk of their diet.
By many modern writers the American prongbuck, pronghorn or " antelope," alone forming the genus Antilocapra, is regarded as representing merely a sub-family of the Bovidae, to which latter group the animal is structurally akin.
Pronghorn (Antilocapra americana)
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The even-toed ungulates form the mammal order Artiodactyla (artios even + daktulos toe), the group that contains the pigs, peccaries, hippopotami, camels, chevrotains (mouse deer), deer, giraffes, pronghorn, antelopes, sheep, goats, ...
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The pronghorn antelope of the Great Plains belongs to the family Antilocapridae. The Mongolian gazelle (Procapra gutturosa), sometimes classified as an antelope, can run with a speed of 80 km/h (50 mph).
They can kill prey up to the size of pronghorn and mountain sheep. They may stalk an animal for 20-30 minutes, exhausting the prey, before pouncing on it. They may also hunt with badgers.
Change of Diet: This mostly black bird with white wingtips once fed on bison and pronghorns, but when those populations were depleted by overhunting in the 19th century, food became hard to come by.
fork-buck (fork-antelope)
the fork-buck or the Pronghorn is the single surviving type Überfamilie of the Gabelhorntierartigen, that was restricted to North America, one once m...
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FOOD: Primarily small rodents and rabbits, young pronghorn antelope, deer, fawns, domestic animals carrion, additionally, will scavenge anything animal or vegetable.
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The Cheetah is the fastest land animal, the next fastest being the North American pronghorn antelope. It is quiet and shy, cannot roar, seldom fights, and purrs when contented. Its main enemies are the lion, leopard, hyena and baboon.
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Springbok have exceptional eyesight (much like the American pronghorn antelope) and where they have been hunted, are difficult to get close to if they sense you first.
Similar species: Rocky Mountain Goat, Deer, and Pronghorn (antelope). Bighorn are classified as "Ovis canadensis"
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Diet: Primarily small mammals. Occasionally will take larger pray such as young deer or pronghorn. Also will occasionally feed on birds, snakes, lizards, and carrion.
The Mexican wolf mainly eats deer in the wild. However, it may also eat livestock, elk, pronghorn, rabbits, javelina, and other small mammals.
Historically, the Mountain Plover nested in prairies inhabited by larger grazing animals, such as bison, pronghorns, and prairie dogs. The decline of these species has coincided with the decline of the Mountain Plover.
The oldest relatives of today's deer, cows and bison, antelopes, and pronghorns all appeared in the Miocene, while most of the families of small artiodactyls that had appeared in the Eocene disappeared at about this time.
 See also: Antelope, Weasel, Deer, Sheep, Chipmunk
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