What is the pronghorn?
Q: What is the pronghorn?
A: The pronghorn is an even-toed ungulate mammal, the only living member of the family Antilocapridae.
Q: What does the pronghorn look like?
A: The pronghorn looks like an antelope. It is 1.3–1.5 m long from nose to tail, and stands 81–104 cm high at the shoulder.
Q: Where does the pronghorn live?
A: The pronghorn lives in North America. It lives in the prairies, but sometimes also in the desert and the Rocky Mountains.
Q: Where did the antilocaprids evolve?
A: The antilocaprids evolved in North America.
Q: How successful were the antilocaprids?
A: During the Miocene and Pliocene, the antilocaprids were a diverse and successful group, with many different species. Some had horns with bizarre shapes or had four or even six horns.
Q: How do bovids compare to the antilocaprids?
A: In Africa, the bovids evolved many ruminants that look like deer, but true deer are a different mammal and do not live in the southern continents. The antilocaprids filled a niche similar to that of the bovids that evolved in the Old World.
Q: What is remarkable about the pronghorn?
A: The pronghorn is the fastest land mammal in the Western Hemisphere, with running speeds of up to 90 km/h. It is often called the second-fastest land animal, second only to the African cheetah, and it can keep up high speeds longer than cheetahs.
