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The pronghorn (UK: / ˈ p r ɒ ŋ h ɔːr n /, US: / ˈ p r ɔː ŋ-/) [4] (Antilocapra americana) is a species of artiodactyl (even-toed, hoofed) mammal indigenous to interior western and central North America. Though not an antelope, it is known colloquially in North America as the American antelope, prong buck, pronghorn antelope and prairie ...
No antelope species is native to Australasia or Antarctica, nor do any extant species occur in the Americas, though the nominate saiga subspecies occurred in North America during the Pleistocene. North America is currently home to the native pronghorn, which taxonomists do not consider a member of the antelope group, but which is often locally ...
The Antilocapridae are a family of ruminant artiodactyls endemic to North America. Their closest extant relatives are the giraffids. [1] Only one species, the pronghorn (Antilocapra americana), is living today; all other members of the family are extinct. The living pronghorn is a small ruminant mammal resembling an antelope.
They are widespread throughout Africa, Asia, Europe, and North America, and are found in a variety of biomes, most typically forest, savanna, shrubland, and grassland. Bovids range in size from the 38 cm (15 in) long royal antelope to the 3.3 m (11 ft) long gaur, which can reach 1,500 kg (3,300 lb) in weight. [1]
Oryx (/ ˈ ɒr ɪ k s / ORR-iks) is a genus consisting of four large antelope species called oryxes.Their pelage is pale with contrasting dark markings in the face and on the legs, and their long horns are almost straight.
A "beloved" sitatunga antelope died after choking on a squeezable fruit pouch left at Brights Zoo in Tennessee, the zoo announced on June 8.
The Mexican pronghorn (Antilocapra americana mexicana) is a pronghorn native to Mexico. It was found in the United States (in Arizona ), but is considered extirpated there. Reintroduction
Opossums probably diverged from the basic South American marsupials in the late Cretaceous or early Paleocene. They are small to medium-sized marsupials, about the size of a large house cat, with a long snout and prehensile tail. Family: Didelphidae (American opossums) Subfamily: Didelphinae. Virginia opossum, D. virginiana [n 1] [n 2] LC