Pronghorns: The American Sprinter Born To Race Cheetahs
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- Опубликовано: 21 сен 2024
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Animalogic Created by Dylan Dubeau and Andrew Strapp
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Examining the nature of the beast.
LOL I was just about to publish a video on this exact subject
Its in the wrong server. B tier
awesome
looking forward to it!!!
Just Do it..
Do it 🎉😂
It's really something to see a pronghorn going as fast as a car only to suddenly slow down to maybe a stop, crawl under a fence, and then take off again.
They are pretty majestic animals that’s for sure. It’s sad that they can’t jump over fences like deer though. That’s a huge reason their population has declined so much.
🤣🤣
They do that baseball side under unlike deer which jump over
They called as the matrix in animal kingdom
They must have the strongest ACLs in the animal kingdom 😂
When I was in 8th grade, my mom and I went to the Metro Richmand Zoo , the pronghorn habitat was below the walk way, but there was a slope that let them get up to a foot away from visitors. One of them was letting visitors pet it on the horns, including me. That was a magical experience, and I've loved them ever since.
I love the Richmond zoo!
Richmond VA?
That sounds alot like pre 1990 🤣 there's no way they'd allow that now for more than one reason🤣🤣🤣
Hunters also love them
@@soltcolt4506I would hunt the hunters and sh**t them if I could.
My friend Quentin Trollip is a world renowned origami folder and designer from South Africa, now living in BC. He had designed and folded all of the antelope and many other animals from Africa, but I hadn't seen a pronghorn in his catalogue. I asked him if he had heard of it, and after doing some research, he designed and folded a two color pronghorn that has been published and is available for anyone to fold. His work is on flickr and is simply amazing!!
Thanks for the video!!
Awesome!
Nice information, thanks 😊
Link
Im glad that pronghorn are in a healthy population hope in the future it keep that way
I have always known that the pronghorn was in its own family, but never knew that its closet relative was the giraffe and okapi until now. Thanks for providing this! 🎉
Very interesting! I always thought pronghorn looked prehistoric, now I know why. For some reason I didn’t know we had cheetah relatives in North America. It’s weird to think that at one time it was like an African safari here.
They're not actually cheetahs, they were more closely related to mountain lions. They convergently evolved to fill similar niches kinda like jaguars and leopards, though the cheetahs became much more similar.
Camels love to feast on the thorny plants in the americas. The life on our continent is connected to life on other continents.
@@stevenkunkle3857 camels evolved in NA then migrated across the land bridge just like horses. Crazy where plants and animals can get to sometimes.
@@brodrickniemeier8529 not really congruent evolution because American cheetahs are in the same lineage of pumas and cheetahs
Ahhh, pronghorn. I live rurally and see them ALL the time. Due to health problems that keep me up overnight, there have been mornings in the summer when they'll meander right up to the house when it's quiet and munch on what grass we have. Always awesome to see.
I hope you're feeling better now
The pronghorn is still running from predators that have faded into oblivion.
RIP American Cheetah. Now the pronghorn can run as much as it wants with almost no worries!
I think as time passes by they're bound to lose that speed (but still outrun North American predators) because it's evolutionarily costly without benefit. It's essentially overkill.
Newfoundlander here. I've never heard of these animals before. Thanks for educating me.
My only experience with the mighty pronghorn was on a drive from Oregon to Southern California out in what we charmingly refer to as "the boonies". It was about 12:30 a.m. and I saw a couple of small green reflectors about eye height, so I slowed down. As I approached, it was a pronghorn standing on the right hand side of the road. It turned & started trotting along the shoulder. Being the somewhat less than intelligent person that I am, I started pacing it in my truck. It kept picking up speed, so I worked my way up the gears...until I shifted into 5th which was the overdrive gear. Still matching pace with the pronghorn, I glanced at the speedometer - it read 61 m.p.h. I glanced at the pronghorn, it flipped its tail at me and accelerated away from me into the darkness.
So, yeah, I'm convinced an adult pronghorn could almost certainly outrun a cheetah.
Wow! Would be nice to put it to a test. Perhaps a few pronghorns could be transplanted to cheetah land in Africa?
Yep, I paced one in Eastern Oregon at 50mph before he turned off into a field. Thing is, they can maintain this speed for miles whereas the Cheetah can only run this speed for short distances.
I have seen pronghorns in Montana, Wyoming, Nebraska, South Dakota, southern Colorado, and central Arizona near Prescott. They are amazing and it never gets old to see them.
I always forget we have pronghorns here in America; they look like they belong in Africa with the gazelle! I need to take a trip out west sometime to see them (Cabella's doesn't count).
How have I not learned of these bad bois? These animals are incredible!
They're real tasty too. Kind of like lamb, but more gamey
@@marfadog2945 lol
To hear that their numbers have gone from as low as 13,000 to half a million gives me such hope. Too often are we bombarded of extinctions and species on the brink of it, it is so refreshing to hear positive human ecological efforts
Amazing that Pronghorns' closest relatives are giraffes and okapis.
The Saiga of the Eurasian Steppe are their equivalent.
I never knew there were 5 subspecies. Let's hope the rare ones get the help they need to grow their numbers.
Finally an episode about the funky north American speed giraffes
I saw a herd of them in Texas, they are very fast even at 500 yards away , they move like flock of birds
Do the bison next,I love learning about the animals of the prairie.
And after them do the Black footed ferret prairie dog prairie chicken prairie Falcon prairie Kingsnake prairie rattlesnake and prairie wolf aka coyote
@@stevenelbert8989 hell yeah
@@Wildman-lc3ur fellow prairie enjoyers! I hope they do the swift fox too.
@@beelunder8433 they already made video about swift fox
@@oryzaa378 oh really?
Hermosos animales y a la vez tan frágiles.
Gracias Animalogic por estos programas.
Now I understand why in RDR2 I could never outrun a pronghorn... the game designers really thought things through.
so, if pronghorns have scent glands on their rears that release a scent when they are alarmed... does that mean... pronghorns *fart when they're scared?*
Great info! (though as a metric impaired American I want mph!)
I just did a "where the deer and the antelope play" mural for a nature center at Nixon Park in Jacobus PA. The educational mural will have interpretive signs pointing out differences between deer and antelope... but since we are using the Pronghorn, we're calling it the "ante-nope".
Love that you pointed out the speed coming from long gone ancient predators... and that our "ante-nope" is most closely related to giraffes and okapis.
One neat detail is that antelope, cattle, sheep and goats are bovidae, deer are cervidae, and both have cloven feet (even toed ungulates) and dew claws on the fetlock (joint above the hoof). Pronghorns are also even toed ungulates but, like giraffes and okapis, do not have dew claws.
The horn sheds its sheath but not its core. We have a display of the horns at the park. You can pull the sheath off to see the bony core.
Nice pointing out the long skinny legs: light legs mean you can move them faster!
There is a push in the US to get ranchers to have their bottom wire 18" off the ground, and smooth not barbed, so the pronhorns can crawl under.
Speed goats and prairie ghost is usually what I have heard them called. I will say the differences in subspecies is not much, its usually a slight color variation. In Arizona they have been trying to relocate Sonoran pronghorn from Mexico into southern AZ. Never mind there are already normal pronghorn all over the northern part of the state. But the Mexican grey wolves and coyotes did figure out the ones they released couldn't jump and would herd them into boulder patches to hunt them were their speed wouldn't help them. Its almost like there weren't any in that area of the state for a reason. Was interesting to learn that they are closer related to giraffes, didn't know that one.
I live in Texas but work on Oil rigs in the Rockies. I would be them about 70% of my drive from the panhandle to Wyoming and Montana. They're cool to see and once, drove along side them to see if they could keep up. Needless to say, I was driving about 40 mph on a dirt road and they barely got their second wind. Such a cool animal.
I remember first learning about this organism when I was Marty Stouffer's Wild America in the episode "Born to Run" (it's here on RUclips). That chase scene with the coyote was breath-taking
See these guys ALL THE TIME, on my way to my parent's house in Falcon, CO, and out to the Colorado Springs airport. I had NO IDEA they were bad asses who have survived millennia!
As a Montanan, I love pronghorn. They are so emblematic of the NAM prairie.
You forgot their most common and descriptive nickname that we use here in Montana, the Speed Goat! As impressive as their speed is, the most impressive thing you'll see them do is cross a fence. Or rather go under, without slowing down at all! Like a ball player sliding in to steal home at 40 mph and still running.....seriously not slowing down at all!
Danielle, I heard that David Suzuki is retiring from The Nature of Things. You have my vote to take over for him! You're just as much a great Canadian naturalist! Thanks for all you do!
When I took a road trip across the country a few years ago, I was so excited to see a group of pronghorn alongside the road! Still I didnt realize they are such unique creatures from an evolutionary standpoint and had no idea they are the second fastest land animal in the world! Thank you for the education!
really, they are third. a human in a car has no problem achieving land velocity greater than a cheetah, they just can't do it on foot.
It's not often "confused" with an antelope. It's CALLED an antelope. "Oh give me a home where the bison roam and the deer and the pronghorn play" is not how the song goes.
I just took some photos of some pronghorn today, where I live in SE Wyoming their quite common, so most people look at them like house sparrows 😂 but I still always enjoy them.
1:49 "He's giving us incredible views right now"
*pees aggressively*
We can tell Pronghorns their ancient natural predatory rivals are extinct, but they would laugh and say: "propaganda!" Before taking off at top speed like gingerbread men and women
I just moved out to Eastern Oregon and there's no pronghorn right around my area but if I just drive an hour or so south I can see them! I can't wait. I've seen some cool new animals since I moved here, mostly new bird species but also elk! I've never seen elk in person. There's a very small moose population nearby I wanna try to spot, and then wolves are moving into the region! One was spotted less than ten miles from my house. I want to see bison and pronghorn asap.
Where did you move from?
1:49 "He's giving us some incredible views right now" (pronghorn urinates)
I’ve seen these guys alongside the highways in the open grasslands over in South Dakota/ Montana. Such awesome animals. Always thought they were antelope as a kid when we would visit the Badlands
they are actually classified as a species of antelope but genetically they are most related to giraffe
This is the 3rd or 4th time I played a video thinking it was going to be some exotic animals continents away only for it to be something that lives in North America. 😂
The American cheetah was actually more closely related to cougars. It was just a great case of convergent evolution
I lived in Cheyenne, inside the Air Force Base, and a group of 7-8 would spend hours in my front yard.
They were not afraid of people or vehicles.
Couldn't we introduce a single African Cheetah for a test run and let it hunt a pronghorn just to see what the American Cheetah would have looked like hunting its ancient prey.
we have no proof american cheetahs really hunted pronghorns though
As someone from Ohio, these open plains look intoxicatingly beautiful
There's nothing to stop the wind
Might have been worth mentioning that the Miracinonyx, the extinct American cheetahs that pronghorns evolved to outrun were a separate genus to Acinonyx, the African cheetah and are an example of convergent evolution.
Convergent evolution?
Aren't they very closely related genera?
In the middle of Utah, we see herds of these adorable creatures during spring and summer.
Any time I want to see these critters I just go to Antelope Island, which is named after those beautiful animals. Heck, you can hardly escape their presence with me seeing them skirting around the edges of the highway all the time.
So basically evolution has added a turbo charger on a deer.
a bazillion of these little guys in Wyoming and they are fast as lightning
I'm blessed to have seen wild pronghorns in northeast California. Watching a herd run across a grassy valley is a magical sight.
Great videos! please accelerate into making more videos like this
Nice, I see what you did there
A bunch of them hung out around our office over the winter. On of my coworkers only called them "speedgoats."
'They are giving us some amazing views' *cut to shot of pronghorn peeing*
Misleading title on the thumbnail. The pronghorn wasn't born to race cheetahs; it was born to race cheetah-like predators that were more closely related to pumas, or puma relatives.
since pronghorns aren't really antelope, and bison aren't really buffalo...
that means that a home where the buffalo roam and the deer and the antelope play...would actually be in Africa.
@@darkonyx6995 There’s *cervus elaphus barbarus,* the Barbary stag. It’s the only native deer species in Africa today
Well, prairiedogs are no dogs...
woah I didn’t know Pronghorns were poor jumpers 👀 Love the video!!
“he’s giving us some incredible views right now!”
then he started peeing😅i love the timing and editing
I own 20 acres of Recreation land in southern oregon and everytime I visit my land there is a family of at least 40 pronghorns just chilling. Cant wait to bag one in the future.
Bag more than 1!Old truck driver told me that they are stupider than🦌w/a dinky🧠& will walk/run right off in front of a rig.Almost ran into some in last year of driving in eastern Montana
Dall Sheep, Rocky Mountain Goats & Bighorn Sheep would to have a word with you about your choice of "favorite North American Ungulate". The Manatee also wants to know if hooves are really required to be considered an ungulate...
Manatees aren't. They are Sirenians and closer to elephants. Whales, on the other hand, are ungulates who came to their senses and embraced carnivory. (Thus they aren't ruminants, since they don't need 4 stomachs.)
Funny to watch that adult hazing off a coyote. Our yard has pronghorns in it most summer days and is a favorite nursery for does. They are protective and chase my cats if grazing close to the house.😄 And sometimes get mildly stabby if I intervene. We call them Murder Deer. TBF, our ginger cat does look cheetah-ish.
Friends hunt them, tho they only have about 20lbs of tough, stringy meat and taste like creosote.
'does that 1 km in 5 minutes conversion'. Hey that's 8 mph, that's faster that I typically run XD (1 mile in 10 minutes, 6 mph)
I think the Pronghorn is the most fascinating animal the world has, not only because of its old lineage but their closest living relatives are Giraffes and Okapis, but being able to run so fast for such a ling time beat the Cheetahs any day of the week ofc the speed of the cheetahs is amazing too but it is for such a short time they can do it. I think this is North America's most unique species. It is a marvel of engineering where do you find a sprinter with marathon stamina!
I went on a road trip to Colorado last week. Never seen them before and it was amazing to see them out west. Such amazing creatures.
Yep, I live in Colorado Springs and see them all the time. Its awesome.
Correct me if i'm wrong but i think they sleep 10 minutes at a time when they lay down, like a lot of ungulates, standing up the should sleep longer but they are kinda half awake kinda like dolphins.
Very interresting ! As a french person i rarely have informations about that amazing animal, thanks !
>The only animal in North America with a longer migration is the caribou.
Animalogic, you've forgotten the monarch butterfly!
They look prepared for the Apocalypse, having one of the best eyesight to catch predators from far away, and being fast as cheetas, but for what also 😅
Love that momma chasing the coyote 😂 such an interesting animal
One of my favorite animals since I was 10 years old.
We always called them deer on steroids when I was kid. They're just so buff! Had tons of them out on plains in Colorado
What an incredibly based animal. You should do videos on more domestic animals, as well.
based
>ridiculously fast
>children are somewhat helpless but have a unique method of stealth, nonetheless, they get killed a lot.
>They can't deal with fences.
Pronghorns are basically cheetahs.
Once I saw a herd that sure seemed like it was pacing my train just for funsies. They'd run, turn, and run some more.
One of the funnest north American animals to hunt and they taste amazing
I love giraffe relatives and ancestors. They're all unique.
Pronghorn: "I'd tell you to eat my dust, but you're too far back to see it!"
Cheetah: "You mother--"
On your comment on Pronghorns being poor jumpers: I've personally seen one jump, standing still, over a ~4 foot fence in Wyoming. I think that's a myth they're poor jumpers. They prefer not to jump but can absolutely jump high if they had to.
I recently found out there's sea slugs that use photosynthesis you guys should definitely make a video about these things
I was glued to the screen the entire time! Fantastic job! 👍
The fact that North America once had Cheetahs is incredible
Headshot them to keep the 3 star pelt on RDR2 or you'll have difficulty chasing them.
As someone from the southeast US, I've never even heard of these things until this video. Where I live, the white tail deer is pretty much the only thing like that around here.
Speedgoat is my personal favorite name for these critters.
These animals will likely to evolve to be much slower relatively quickly as speed no longer grants them a survival advantage and is probably a disadvantage considered the added energy consumption needed to maintain it.
masterpiece of evolution, great animal!
thanks Danielle ❤️
They make a cawing or barking sound. I also witnessed them jumping over fences so I will say that while not jumpers, if the fence is short enough, they will. They often hunker down during the heat of the day, sometimes parking their young some distance (50 meters or more) away to attract predators to the mother and not the fawn. A new mother and fawn will not move very far on a day to day basis until the fawn is faster and more agile. I also witnessed the father (buck) also remaining close by at least for the first few days after birth.
Wyoming is full of them... We call them Speed goats... 😉
When i was in the military in Colorado we use watch the pronghorn come on military reservations to feed. Due to popular belief (when they are spooked) the adult can jump a four foot fence.
Hello! I love your content, I'm so fond of learning about the flora and the fauna.
Could you do a segment on parasitic crabs? I find it very fascinating that they live off other crustaceans.
I love pronghorns! One of my favorie animals. I remember seeing a national geographic about the prairies and they were featured. I was in love since that day.
I hope we see more docs about ungulates. These animals are more than just prey.
great video. You asked for ideas for new videos, how about moles, voles, and shews. I'm particularly interested in how they dig through frozen ground.
They really look like oddball prehistoric beasts! I love them
I love the fact that they are the only animal that shed their horn
They aren't. Other animals like rams will shed the outer shell, underneath is a boney core. Some animals shed their horns entirely, others will lose the outer casing upon injury. Even others will shed the casing on a yearly basis. Most deer and elk grow their horns back every year.
Great episode!
Pronk is my new favorite word.
these things would own cheetahs.
Beautiful creatures! When I was a child in Idaho, they used to keep pace with our truck on Highway 26
Loving the content in Grasslands! My favourite place on earth! I love how many Pronghorns there are in the area!
We have a herd of these antelope here on the farm right now. Very small and skittish, the pronghorn.
Nice example of evolution. There exist some type of antilopes but only the ones that had specific traits (speed, endurance) proliferated best.
The Pronghorn “Speed Goat” is my favorite North American animal.
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