29 February 2024
Although we name this animal a pronghorn antelope (Antilocapra americana), it’s not an antelope in any respect.
Whereas I used to be on Street Scholar’s Southern Africa Birding Safari final month I noticed seven species of antelopes (not my pictures; these are from Wikimedia Commons).
As a result of the pronghorn’s look is comparable, I can see why he’s referred to as an antelope, however his nearest relations are different African animals, the giraffe and okapi.
Pronghorns most likely resemble antelopes as a result of they run like them, a trait they acquired to flee cheetahs(!). Cheetahs was in North America however disappeared a very long time in the past.
The pronghorn by no means stopped operating.
