(Cheetahs are the fastest.) Pronghorn breed in late summer or fall depending on their location—those in the southern part of the range tend to breed earlier.
Throughout their range, these animals live alongside cattle, sheep, bison and horses.
The gestation period lasts for 250 days. If they make it to the Upper Green River Valley, then the pronghorn will make the journey back north to greener pastures in April. Males also have a weight of between 40 and 65 kg. The female’s horns are small, usually only a bump. The males reach the age of sexual maturity at age one year, while it’s 16 to 17 months for females. While it can run at very high speeds, the pronghorn cannot jump. The rump has extra-long white hairs that the pronghorn can stick up when scared. Most world life conservations suggest that the last part of a barbed wire fence be left open to allow these animals to go through during their migration. They are gigantic hence the animal can detect movement made at a 4-mile distance; a 320 degrees vision to be precise. When they sense danger, pronghorns communicate to others by contracting their rump muscles that cause their butt hair to stand, and others can see even while two miles away.Unlike other subspecies, pronghorns cannot jump to heights. Unlike the cheetah, it can run at very high speeds for long distances. Second, pronghorn are selective browsers with elongated heads and pointed mouth parts that allow them to forage on stems and leaves of new growth, high-protein plant parts with lower concentrations of plant secondary … They mainly eat herbs, forbs, cactus, and desert grasses like bunchgrass, bluegrass, ricegrass, squirreltail and bottlebrush. Their natural range extended from southern Canada to northern Mexico. Male horns are about 25cm long while female horns are averagely 12 cm long, making the female horns way shorter than the males. Young males form their group of bachelor’s, and females from their group.
They also have lighter bones to help them stay light as they run.Being a herbivore, pronghorns feed on grass in summer and during winter they feed on sagebrush or any other edible vegetation. Although pronghorn are not as fast as cheetahs, they can maintain a fast speed for a longer period of time than cheetahs. The most noticeable characteristic of pronghorn is also the source of their common name. Pronghorn are the second fastest land mammal in the world. They eat grasses, forbs, sagebrush, and other prairie plants. They are most frequently associated with flat terrains with less number of trees and short-grass prairies, steppes.Pronghorns have four subspecies and have been named according to their habitat regions:The activity schedule of the pronghorns varies highly and is affected by weather, season, region, or herd dynamics. They also have small digestive tract hence use less energy when running.They have pointed double hooves, and the front hooves are usually larger than the back hooves. And like every other thing known to and discovered by human beings, pronghorns also have a scientific name. They are between 81 to 104 centimeters high from foot to shoulder. Pronghorn antelopes eat different things depending on the season. The number, however, varies mostly seasonally. This process allows the pronghorn to break the plant material into smaller pieces so that more nutrients are absorbed. While deer’s do not have a gallbladder, pronghorns do. They form a herd of mixed sex during winter but breaks early in spring. This incites chasing, aggressive behavior and fights between males, which the female waits and watches and finally ends in mating with the winner.
Pronghorn can run at speeds close to 60 miles an hour. Variation across seasons is representative of the variable rainfall across the Trans-Pecos.