Pronghorn Doe and her Fawns
by Tony Hake
Title
Pronghorn Doe and her Fawns
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Tony Hake
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Photograph - Photograph
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A pronghorn doe and her two newborn fawns in northern Colorado. Pronghorn (often incorrectly called antelope) are the fastest land animal in the Western Hemisphere and second in the world only to the Cheetah. They can sprint at speeds up to 60mph and run for extraordinarily long distances at slower speeds. Before the arrival of western Europeans, it is believed as many as 40 million of them roamed the open rangelands of North America – possibly more than there were bison. Hunting and fragmentation of their habitat by fences and human settlements took its toll and as few as 20,000 remained at the start of the 20th century. Thankfully conservation and education saved them from extinction and they now number almost 1 million.
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July 25th, 2021
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