Description

Distribution        

Cover Requirements

Reproduction

Habitat

Diet

Management

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Diet

Pronghorns feed entirely upon vegetation, chiefly shrubs and forbs. Cutleaf daisy, white daisy, stickleaf, paper flower, and woolly senecio are consumed in large amounts (Davis and Schmidly 1994). Some of the types of grasses that are grazed upon include gamma, buffalo, and bunch grasses (Trippensee 1948). Pronghorn are able to tolerate some plants which are poisonous to cattle and sheep, such as woolly senecio and paper flower, but do suffer from locoweed (Davis and Schmidly 1994). Other species which are browsed are javalina bush, Mexican tea, and sacahuiste (Davis and Schmidly 1994). During the winter, forage can consist of blackjack oak, juniper, buttonbush, windmill grass, blue grama, panicum species, and little bluestem (Rouse 1941).