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US
/ˈpɹɔŋˌhɔɹn/
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[ UK /pɹˈɒŋhɔːn/ ]
[ UK /pɹˈɒŋhɔːn/ ]
NOUN
- fleet antelope-like ruminant of western North American plains with small branched horns
How To Use pronghorn In A Sentence
- Experts fear that if further development closes off these migration paths, it will interfere with the pronghorn's life cycle, eventually causing the species to disappear.
- The distinctive markings of pronghorns, especially the bright white rump patch, make them easy to spot.
- The only surviving species of the family is Antilocapra americana, the pronghorn antelope, which lives in western North America.
- Your own list would look little different than this one (in fact except for the 7mm Rem., you have all these rounds in the cartridge guide you wrote a couple of years ago). .300 Magnums are a little heavy for deer and pronghorn, but about right for everything else, so them being #1 is probably about right. Our Most Popular Big-Game Rounds
- Escaping encroaching snows farther north, pronghorn run south through Wyoming's Gros Ventre mountains on their annual fall migration in 2008.
- Our Southwest deserts are home to endangered Sonoran pronghorn antelopes, desert tortoises, kangaroo rats, pupfish, springsnails, and other desert species that are adapted to very specialized niches and therefore particularly vulnerable to changes in climate and habitat. Leda Huta: A Marshall Plan for Nature: How to Protect Endangered Species from Climate Change
- Introducing free-ranging African cheetahs back to the Southwest, the scientists assert, could restore strong interactions with pronghorns and provide endangered cheetahs with new habitat.
- Gas drilling projects, such as Jonah Field, impede pronghorn migration, and new homes restrict corridors to no more than a few hundred yards wide in places.
- Such a policy would needlessly destroy millions of acres of already dwindling sage-steppe habitat that supports sage grouse and other grassland species, such as pronghorn, mule deer and golden eagles.
- The pronghorn (an amazing mammal that can run nearly as fast as the cheetah, which it coevolved with) is also sensitive to these changes.