 |
Kingdom:
Animalia Pronghorn Antelope |
|
| Description
You are visitor # Last updated 11/14/02 |
Range
and Distribution:
Today, pronghorns have a scattered but widespread range throughout the western part of North America as shown in diagram A (Kitchen and O’Gara 1982). Important aspects of pronghorn habitat are a low, rolling topography and a mixture of forbs, grasses and shrubs (Pisarowicz 2002). The pronghorn populations are found to be the densest in areas where the annual precipitation is between 25-35 cm (Autenrieth 1978). The majority of antelope live in midgrass to shortgrass range. They also occur in mixed grass-shrub and grass-sage range and a tiny percent are in deserts. In the early 1800’s, the pronghorn’s population was estimated at 35 million in North America. By 1900 there were only about 13,000 left (Hopkins 1999).
Figure A
|
