Pronghorn: Experts in Speed and Sight
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 มิ.ย. 2015
- How did pronghorn get to be so fast? Learn about the anatomy, speed, sight, and other amazing characteristics of pronghorn that allow them to survive the challenges of life on the northern plains. American Prairie's Lead Scientist Kyran Kunkel shares the story of this uniquely North American creature.
Pronghorns have always been fascinating to me just because of their prehistoric origin. They're not deer, goats, or even true antelope, they're a family unto themselves with no other surviving relatives.
They're related to the giraffes family distantly
@@mhdfrb9971 Unlikely. Current consensus suggests that pronghorn were the first to diverge from the Pecora clade, and then giraffes & their relatives diverged later on.
However this is still a contentious issue.
@@beachchaos1863 still they closest living relative today are giraffes and okapi
@Beach Chaos, actually, the pronghorn belongs to the superfamily Giraffoidea, which actually groups it with the giraffids, in fact, Giraffoidea is actually the most basal extant superfamily within the infraorder Pecora, it evolved earlier than the superfamilies Cervoidea (Deer and Fossil Relatives) and Bovoidea (Bovids and Fossil Relatives).
And they are delicious .
your purpose of life : run for your life.
run from nothing too since they dont have a predator
@@teemo7714 they don’t anymore, but they used too from what I’ve gathered
I came from red dead to learn about them because I had never even heard of them before
Same. I'm even researching all their prehistoric relatives.
In fact every fish, horse, animal, plant and gun in the game I been researching
@@monkeyhumourfilms6429 yup, and the health benefits of each herb in the game.
@@TheropodHunter It has been many times said but I will say it again. The game is simply exceptional. What is your favourite chapter?
@@TheropodHunter It may be chapter 3, loved the campsite. Robbing the bank. The shootup where you wind up in the creek, then going off to save John from the plantation house.
The American Cheetah was actually more closely related to Mountain lions, but Mountain lions are pretty closely related to cheetahs to be fair.
@Charles Lindberg 你很幽默🤪🤪
Lol
There is no such thing as a mountain lion, they're actually called pumas.
@@indyreno2933 by that logic there is no such thing as a snow leopard, they're actually calked irbises.
@@indyreno2933 pumas are also called mountain lions so there is such thing. You prefer to say puma good on you
saw wild pronghorns in western nebraska several years ago. it's so wonderful that such unique wildlife still exists in this country!
To be fair we have a few of that such as the turkey, beaver, racoons, wolverines, and rattlesnakes that were pretty much unique to North America only until we started moving around a ton as people. Now there's a ton of varying invasive species around the world.
@@nichochan8681 Mountain lions are the most unique american mammal imo. A small cat that is bigger than an actual big cat (leopard) and can kill moose, horses elk etc. Screams and meows instead of roars, has tons of variation in size dimensions adaptions across all of the americas.
As opposed to domesticated ones, no doubt.
I didn't know they puffed out their butt hairs when alarmed.
I have been watching nature documentaries for nearly 50 years from many channels. In all those years, and all those shows, none of them have been solely about the Prong-horned Antelope. If it's mentioned at all, it's only in passing, but never the main subject like so many other animals are. Why is that? I don't know diddly squat about them. Are they related to goats, sheep, are they truly a species of antelope?
Are their horns really horns or are they like antlers and fall off each year in winter to grow back again in spring? If they are true horns, it's unusual to have horns that are branched.
Their closest relative is actually the giraffe and okapi!!! Nuts right?!
what he saif about their horns falling off is what almost all deer do ' so its not unusual and yes pronghorns antlers fo fall off
Pronghorns have horns that are shed in the spring. This is unusual since animals that have horns don’t shed their horns as antlered animals shed their antlers.
@@yee3335 Pronghorn don’t have antlers, they have horns. Antlers are branched, solid and antlered animals shed their antlers. Horned animals don’t shed their horns and horns are hollow. Pronghorn do shed their horns thus making them an exception to the shedding rule.
Let's hope that we can preserve this beautiful animal and not make them extinct!
Hakeem Mulholland they’re not really close at all to being threatened.
They may not be threatened at the moment, but their habitat is, so it is important that we protect them the same as any endangered species.
Most north American megafauna and others are safer then most u know white people
they the reason there no predator here
@@briankelly9347 surprisngly we dont have many endangered megafaunas.
Kinda crazy how the only reason they're so quick is so they can run from predators that don't exist anymore lol
They still use their speed to out run coyotes and, in some areas of the US, mountain lions.
my horse in red dead can't keep up
Yeah i though hit was a glitch but they can quickly run at 60mph
@@jdmfan2170 with the energy to run all day
My gosh, I have been seeing so many red dead comments lately, the game must be popular
Pronghorns are such amazing creatures that give us a bit of a glimpse of what the fauna may have been like back before the ice age! I just hope that they stay on this earth for years to come…
The Earth is indeed full of surprises.
What a beautiful animal that I just learned of today.
The pronghorns here in Colorado will come right into town, they have a lot of confidence in their escape speeds hehe.
Great video. I wanted to learn about them it was informative
I'm happy I could watch this
I needed info of them for a speech! :)
so apparently these guys are the "antelope" mentioned in Home on the Range's "where the deer and the ANTELOPE play"?
Yep! Except they're not even true antelope, they're the last survivors of their own prehistoric family.
Seen 1st one today in Flagstaff Arizona.... very cool!
It's great to know, I came to know about its vision range last day. And I'm here..
Really great video!
Not just the Great Plains. They’re all the way into Oregon and Arizona.
Pronghorns are AMAZING runners. I've seen a large clusters of them run across mountainous terrain strewn with rocks. For a human to run there, it would be slow because for each step one must gage whether to step on a rock, a cluster of rocks, bare ground, a divot, etc. And then, the runner must precisely place each step as planned.
This level of attention was irrelevant for the pronghorns. They motored along this terrain at 30+ MPH. Even more amazing than their speed was how SMOOTH and effortless it was. Their body glided above the surface, with virtually no up/down component in their movement. Their motion was so smooth, you'd swear they had run across a manicured lawn
he basically said
"they're called pronghorn because they have a prongy horn"
I fight for them and die for them now.I Love the Pronghorns.Thank You
And I shoot them and eat them. Yummy!
:15 "this species is only found in the Great Plains of North America." Pronghorn antelope also occur in high-elevation mountain meadows in Arizona and many other Western States. I'm not sure why he's saying that these are only found in the Great Plains? Am I missing something?
Yep, we have them through the grassy high plateaus and meadows in northern and central AZ.
I don’t know where you get that there only found in the Great Plains region? There a dime a dozen in the mountain west..
True. They inhabit the Plains of St Augustine in SW New Mexico as well as northern Nevada, southern Idaho, eastern Oregon and eastern Washington.
Saw several females and a male on my road trip to California from Chicago.
I found out that these aren't even true antelopes, they're giraffidea, related to giraffes and okapis
crazy
No the fuck they aren't, it even said in the video they're the only member of their family.
Giraffe are a species of antelope, just extremely modified to reach leaves high up on trees that other animals can't reach.
@@SpiritBear12
Please tell me you're shitting me. Please
Giraffes and okapis are part of their own family, the giraffids.
Antelopes belong to the family bovidae.
They're distantly related, but that doesn't mean much because they're also distantly related to whales.
I can't tell if you're joking or not, but if you aren't I swear to God I'm gonna have a fucking aneurysm
I was only slightly wrong, I dug more and their closest living relatives are sill okapis and giraffes, don't yell at me :(
@@oats8854 they are, please get an education.
I am doing a test on them and I want to know more so I do not have to do school anymore and pronghorns are my favorite animal
Is it legal to hunt them ?
Some of these have made it as far as the Oregon coast
That what we call double step, imagine we do the same shit as we walk, it will be a lot bounce.
on ne les a même pas vu courir alors que c'est le titre !
...What about the Sonoran Pronghorn
i'm 57 years old, i had never heard of the pronghorn up until about 10 years ago...... wonder why they are such a secret?
Damn so they’re like super fast giraffes
“rump”😭😭
I learned about pronghorn after playing Red Dead Redemtion 2
Theyre so damn fast online when i try to sedate them now i know why
Wouldn't it be cool if we could bring some cheetahs to the Great Plains to hunt the pronghorn again?
No
To keep them in shape 🤣
The Cheetahs wouldn't be able to catch them and would go extinct. They're faster than any of their prey in Africa and can maintain their speed for a looong time.
Donny Darkoh well cheetahs are faster for a short time but you are still right
They would actually have something to fear instead of just easily out running anything though
Might as well bring in the lions
Plus the American 'Running' Hyena as well
Chasmaporthetes Crocuta Ossifragus
Is that true they can see Saturn rings?
A remnant of an ancient past.
Lewis and Clark encountered these guys
I heard that Pronghorns are the second fastest animal in the world, only behind the cheetah.
@MajorGalah in land. But the fastest of the fastest, that go to the peregrine falcon
ps: Texas would be the "Southern" extent of the Prong Horn. Canada is the "Northern" extant.
They are a BEAUTIFUL ANIMAL so many here in the Midwest talk down of them
an label them as a goat those same small people talk highly of their corn field rats called the WHITETAIL deer LO.L !
When they were first discovered by Europeans they called them goats, I guess it stuck
They are great table fair as well.
Here from tiktok
This thing can see the rings of Saturn... waw!
I just read that
Rogan & Tom Green
What about reintroduce Cheetah? They might get bigger on that .... LOVE
+ Daniel Huber They never found that Cheetah that was spotted wandering around in British Columbia this winter
wait a littel...
Would not go well at all, they would only have one food source. Cheetahs have a handful in Africa, that number in the hundreds of thousands. Also cheetahs live in Africa, they don't get blasted by winters like most of the states these pronghorn live in.
Asiatic cheetah cope with cold winters easily
Heliox They'd cope I reckon. Species adapt and evolve. Just look at any species introduced outside its native range. We don't give them enough credit.
Prehistoric animals
The epitome of you have legs use them
Million dollars catch one
that Like in RDR2 🔴
They look kinda funny lol
These guys must be the oldest species still alive today, along with the Andean condor.
Sharks and crocodiles enter the chat
@@rishikkanthravikumar6596 I meant like the actual species, sure crocodiles and sharks have been alive for millions of years but they were different species/subspecies than today if that makes sense, hell some crocodiles were even herbivorous or preferred to hunt prey by running on land, I think pronghorns were the same species back then and they are the same species now is what I meant to get at but yeah doubtful pronghorns are the oldest group of animals, there are some really old groups, hyenas are 22 million years old, elephants are 56 million years old, only 10 million years after the dinosaurs, ofc crocodiles and the coelacanth lived alongside the dinosaurs, and scorpions have been alive for 400 million years! They were 200 million years before the dinosaurs and are still alive today! There’s even an 800 million year old sponge fossil, literally 600 million years before the dinosaurs and they are still alive today
Common knowledge among tribes. Funny how it’s just now being talked about 😅
Pronghorn can see ring of Saturn.
But not Uranus 😂😂😂
Nov 10, 2023. If Central Asia & Africa have herds of Thousands of Antelope, then how come we only see maybe 5 Prong Horn Antelopes in North America? What the hell happened to what should be Thousands of Prong Horns in Huge herds!.. I bet Ranchers & farmers almost wiped out the entire species!
I bet they're delicious 😋
Pronghorns have hairy heart shaped butts. Lol.
I guess animals feel like everything that chases them or runs from them is just too slow for them and that they can run from it or catch up to it, I see videos of dogs trying to chase motorcycles and it's just hilarious....that motorcycle isn't slower than you, that's a show for me....animals trying to race our extremely fast machines! I hear people say the animals go as fast as their cars....no, the car just isn't going that fast, of course a car can go above 50 and 60, those are just the speed limits, a car just like a lot of our machine's speed, go up in the hundreds! I know, it's a video about an animal and I'm over here talking about machines, because they're (machines) way better and faster than this pronghorn that y'all love (I'm not kidding, though, I love human's inventions better, everyone should find their own kind amazing)
Yesterday morning in southern Wyoming I saw something catch one. I watched through my rifle scope as the antelope was quickly overtaken by a 180 grain, soft point .308 bullet, moving at about 3000 feet per second. Very tasty!
Joking about the slaughter of animals now are we? wonderful world we live in...
Are the usually hard to get?
@@tr4sh.r4t at least they’re eating it
Fun fact: Prong horn can run up to 100mphs per hour
@Autumn well these guys are litterally living fossils and have been around an dlived with mammoths and giant sloths so yeah they probaly coukd
Itssiennaorsomething Animation's there top speed is 65 miles per hour, you’re probably thinking of kilometers.
@@bladerskater100 living fossils are not the right saying more like a gradually evolving creature
@@riot2136 65 is unlikely. 60 mph at best
Nothing can run at 100mph. Get your facts straight dude
the but thing is disturbing
Why can't you ship some African cheetahs. In North America.
They arent adapted to cold areas
Cause the Wolverines will eat them
I don't get what's so impressive about pronghorns, they aren't any more amazing than a human, plus we can create machines that go way faster than them, pronghorns can't, which is why humans are super cool beings! I love humans and so should everyone else, you should be impressed by your own kinds amazing creations! I'm sure those pronghorn get tired of that same ole slow speed, seeing all these machines go past them! They might be able to outrun most other animals, but they can't get away from a bullet or our machines!
They (pronghorn) can't escape a bullet, yes, you can dodge a bullet (absolutely), but you can't escape one, but animals don't think like that (for some reason nature doesn't program animals like that, but it's great though, I get to be entertained by the animals trying to do stuff they don't realize they can't do), they just see something coming at them or running from them and are like, "I can definitely outrun this thing!" or "I can catch up to this thing I'm chasing!" Animals don't understand that we invented stuff that's too fast to outrun or catch, they don't know they're too slow!
@@dinobernaro3030 be a fan of both and understand that we need animals to thrive
Just like antelope on the African plain.. except everything that would have hunted it is extinct
tfranc347 they are more closely related to giraffes than antelope
Lmao people are r here from red dead
I hate this animal in red dead so hard to kill and so fast
Evolution propaganda
Brainwashed moron
@@JoolianV It takes a big person to admit that. I respect you.