Montana Pronghorn

by Wildlife Fine Art

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Montana Pronghorn

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Wildlife Fine Art

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Photograph - Prints

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Pronghorns here in Montana and in the Yellowstone area migrate out of he park towards lower elevation after the snows come. They love wide open spaces,they have large eyes and have fantasic vision.
Pronghorn, goats, prairie goats, or speed goats, are all nick names. Fact is there are no true "antelope" species native to North America. When the white rump patch is flared on a pronghorn antelope, it signals danger to the rest of the herd. Then it turns into the prairie ghost. Pronghorns are the fastest mammals on foot in North America, capable of sprints up to 97 kilometers (60 miles) per hour.Pronghorn group up of both female and male during the winter months. Herds of pronghorns migrate 150 miles each way between Wyoming’s Upper Green River Basin and Grand Teton National Park. The only other land animal to travel farther in North America is the caribou.
The horns are particularly remarkable in that like bovids, they consist of a keratin sheath on a bony core, but like deer (cervids), they are forked, and the outer sheath sheds annually from the unforked bony core. Pronghorn bucks shed the outer sheaths of their horns while retaining the slender inner cores, around which new sheaths have already begun to form.
The male also has conspicuous black patches on the face and on the sides of the neck, beneath the ears. They carry the only forked horns in the world, and the only horns that are shed annually. Both genders have horns although the males are much bigger than the female's. With a field of vision that is nearly 360 degrees and extremely efficient circulatory and respiratory systems, they can detect predators and escape from them by running at high speed for extended periods.
Pronghorn horn characteristics is the only ungulate to grow headgear that's classified as horn but which is forked. A mature buck will have horns a foot or more in length, with the tips curled back, enabling rutting bucks to strike up into the vulnerable throats of their rivals and

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December 30th, 2013

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