The pronghorn is a wonderfully clever and adaptive animal, crawling under barb-wire fences, and thus avoiding one of the greatest enemies of Western life.
The same is true of the pronghorn antelope in the Laramie Plains district.
The pronghorn has no "dew claws" like most other animals with divided hooves.
In times past thepronghorn usually lived in the valley and prairie country.
Natural enemies of the pronghornare legion, their success indifferent.
Pronghorn hunting is fraught with danger, however, especially during the time their young are small.
Many attempts have been made to clock the speed of the pronghorn in full flight but the estimates vary greatly.
Were it not for its unusual horns the pronghorn probably would be known by a common name such as the white-tailed antelope, for the beautiful white rump patch is undoubtedly its next most conspicuous feature.
The pronghorn is distinctive in shedding the sheaths of its horns each year, but the hollow, bony core remains intact.
After the Rains, when the quick grass sprang up, vast herds of deer and pronghorn come down from the mountains; and when there were no rains the people ate lizards and roots.
There were no buffaloes, but blacktail and mule deer that fattened on the bunch grass, and bands of pronghorn flashing their white rumps.
For some years after 1880 I think the pronghornin our neighborhood positively increased in numbers.
The pronghorn has, moreover, other enemies to contend against besides man and his Winchester, the great eagles of the North-West occasionally taking toll from the herds.
It seems likely that the pronghorn will be the next of the American mammals to disappear before the arms of the white man.
There were streaks of good pasturage here and there where his cattle used to graze, and where the deer and the pronghorn used to linger.
The Pronghorn is a gregarious creature running in bands of six up to hundreds.
Furthermore, it is now certainly known that the Pronghorn sheds its horns not merely occasionally, but with definite annual periodicity.
Ten minutes after the two coyotes had killed the jack Breed opened his eyes for a view of a pronghorn buck that had taken his stand on a low ridge half a mile away.
The pronghorn antelope has a most peculiar signal system of his own.
Splendid heads of elk, mule deer, mountain goats and pronghorn antelope filled up the rest of the space.
We'll see mule deer and elk, pronghorn antelope and mountain goats.
The pronghorn also would find suitable habitat in this area, but would have to be reintroduced there.
The pronghorn was also rare in the state and now has been extirpated as it has been in many other parts of Mexico.
Two, the pronghorn and bison, are typical inhabitants of the interior grasslands of North America and might be considered steppe species save for the fact that each has an extensive distribution beyond that region.
Wolves and coyotes pursue the pronghorn in relays or capture it strategically through various kinds of mutual aid.
I do not know the end of the story, but as I walked on I wished that this mother antelope might have possessed the special development of the pronghorn in the desert regions--the ability to do without water for days at a time.
The food of the pronghorn is sage, greasewood, sometimes cactus, and, on the desert, broomrape.
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