Cheetahs clock in a bit faster at 65-76, but can only run that speed for a couple hundred yards. These Pleistocene leftovers can run 55-65 or so (and I believe the lighter females even a bit faster) for miles and, slowing down just a bit, can still keep a rapid clip for tens of miles. A really fantastic creature. When you're looking at one, you're essentially looking tens of thousands of years in North America's past.

@misconceptions5613

5 жыл бұрын

Danny Fastpaws I would love to see a cheetah run full speed for 200 yards

@mrprince8159

5 жыл бұрын

I wish we could ride it

@danyeo

4 жыл бұрын

Danny Fastpaws Yeah, anything over 800 meters and a Pronghorn leaves a Cheetah in the dust.

@bigboys8000

4 жыл бұрын

Pronghorns at that speed could run all day

@JasonAlexzander1q47

4 жыл бұрын

Ok Todd

they are known to hold top speed longer than cheetahs. They are also known to have the highest vo2max (Maximum volume of oxygen intake) of all animals. Fascinating animals.

@lunamoonlight5102

4 жыл бұрын

TheInflammator 250-300 ml per minute or so

@edwardtrooper7027

2 ай бұрын

put a lot of stats into endurance I see

@StarfieldRailway

5 күн бұрын

If every animal on Earth raced a marathon, the winner would be an antelope. They are literally the best distance runners on Earth. They can maintain 60 miles per hour for a few miles and 30 miles per hour for very long distances.

They can still run so fast even though all their fastest predators went extinct... sad but cool at the same time.

@tomitstube

7 жыл бұрын

true, they currently run 20 mph faster than the next fastest north american animal, (wolves i believe) obviously they evolved to out run a cheetah. what's fascinating is they've maintained this speed for 10,000 years without needing it.

@opossumguyworld4487

6 жыл бұрын

tomitstube a cougar is faster than a wolf

@nilsvanbrucom

6 жыл бұрын

that does not apply in most evolutionary cases. Their speed will probably decrease in 10.000's of years, unless this insane speed is still usefull for something. It's commonly referred to as "use it or lose it".

@jongebarowski5573

6 жыл бұрын

Yup. The slower ones are reproducing and over time the speed advantage will diminish.

@AceofDlamonds

5 жыл бұрын

I think they still could outrun an African cheetah, because of their longer endurance.

Keep in mind they could run a marathon in about 50 mins. Tremendous endurance, awesome to watch.

@donarthiazi2443

Жыл бұрын

HaHaHa.. maybe _2_ marathons in 50 minutes

@TheLoneCamper

2 ай бұрын

And now deep thoughts with Jack Handy: Keep in mind that if you converted how much money you can make in 1 hour and simply do that every hour of every day of my life, you will be rich.

Interesting you should say that! You see, the reason pronghorns run so ridiculously fast is because, up till about 11,000 years ago, they DID have to outrun cheetahs. I'm referring to American Cheetahs, which were more closely related to pumas than African cheetahs, but were very similar. It's weird because I was JUST reading about American Cheetahs a few minutes ago, which is what prompted me to look up pronghorns, which is where I saw your incredibly fortuitous comment!

@jamesaron1967

3 жыл бұрын

The American cheetahs were puma and not related to modern cheetahs? Convergence?

@hyzercreek

2 жыл бұрын

@@jamesaron1967 The puma's closest relative is the African cheetah.

Beautiful creatures. Back in the late 60s, my family moved to Ketchum Idaho. I’d never seen a pronghorn before. Along stretches of road on the plains of souther Idaho we’d see’em…keeping pace with our car. I was 8 and it looked to me like they were just having fun.

If the cheetah are the sprinter of the animal kingdom, pronghorn antelopes are the marathon runners. They have the endurance to sustain their speed for miles, making them I believe the second fastest animals on land.

@sir_sack

Жыл бұрын

@Mimi Kyuki I think Kenyans are the marathon runners

@H.K.5

3 ай бұрын

Cheetah = Usain Bolt Antelope = Michael Johnson

I live in Saskatchewan Canada and one year me and my dad were dirt biking around, came across a heard of pronghorns and rode with them in the heard for miles, was a awesome experience

Before the last ice age, there were giant cheetahs in North America. Pronghorns are remnants from the ice age, so they are adapted to outrun the long-extinct cheetahs.

Incredible footage! I found this video after researching which animal on the planet would theoretically win in a marathon. These guys would win or at least get a podium finish. Honourable mention: Ostriches!

That wasn't full speed. What a nice video. Thanks for sharing it.

That wasn't full speed.

@Weeeeeef

6 жыл бұрын

tezterz yes and i want to know at what speed the driver was driving.

@misconceptions5613

5 жыл бұрын

Bruno dimitri Abe tchombe u don’t need to, look at how slow their strides were. They were galloping

@iamhanzla

4 жыл бұрын

Yes

Maybe not absolute full speed(?),but easily fast,enough to see the possibility of the 2nd fastest animal go very fast, but It can, however, sustain high speeds longer than the cheetahs. Thanks for sharing Channel 6.

Pronghorn are the fastest mammals in North America. They can maintain a steady speed of around 55km/h for over 6 kilometres and reach sprinting bursts of about 72km/h

@josephmiller4122

5 жыл бұрын

In America they run in MPH not KMH and they can far surpass the 72 kmh mark when they top out around 60 mph (about 100kmh).

Thank You! I too have witnessed their great speed, but wasn't clocking anything. One source does have them hitting a maximum of 70 mph and they are known to cruise around 45-50 mph for miles on end. Many people are not aware the pronghorn evolved to escape the American Cheetah and long distance running hunters lie Wolves so they had too be both endurant and have an afterburner when necessary. Also if I am not mistaken the Cincinnati Zoo has clocked one of it's Cheetahs in upper 70's on a test.

gorgeous footage but they aren't even close to top speed here. it's amazing to see this because it sort of shows adaptive evolution. Thompson's gazelles reach 50 or so mph and they evolved to be able to get away from African cheetahs. One can sort of surmise that pronghorns co-evolved with American cheetahs and run faster than thompson's.... theoretically we can make a guess that the larger American cheetah must have been slightly faster than it's African cousins.

@jamesaron1967

3 жыл бұрын

It's entirely possible. I'm very curious what the giant cheetahs were capable of.

@detnemt9571

2 жыл бұрын

probably the heat in africa had something to do with that, risk of overheating was probably much less in north america and so the american cheetah could possibly reach higher speeds and maintain those speeds. just a wild guess though, i really have no clue

@hyzercreek

2 жыл бұрын

Cougars are closely related to cheetah. They keep pronghorns on their toes.

@AreolaGrande94

2 жыл бұрын

@@hyzercreek naw. cougars are almost exclusively ambush predators that rely on their powerful leap (best leapers of all felids) in one powerful "kill strike," almost always from a hidden position. They will never be in a 'chase' such as those of the cheetah. Just because they are closely related that does not mean they automatically use the same methods. There could not be more different hunters within Felidae than the cougar and cheetah. There's also the GLARING fact that pronghorns don't share the same types of habitats. Pronghorns are not among those on the cougar's potential prey. So, basically. No. Just no.

@hyzercreek

2 жыл бұрын

@@AreolaGrande94 Naw. Best leaper of all cats is the leopard. Can jump 20 feet up into a tree. Also, pumas can run 50 MPH. Also, pumas DO eat pronghorn and live in their habitat. So no, no, and no. Just no no no.

That wasn't even close to their full speed,they are lightning quick and can easily outrun a cheetah in a long distance chase.

I just saw one of these on tiktok running with a car. These are stamina monsters

What a magnificent creature.

stamina, endurance, aand speed

@youngomg8503

5 жыл бұрын

You spell stamina and endurance right but not and and speed

Unbelievable how fast they can go

People don't understand even a cheetah would have very hard time catching these guys first off their eyesight is incredible no mammal that cheetahs hunt have this type of vision plus he would have to get extremely close because pronghorns are nearly as fast they'd starve if they had to depend on pronghorn as prey.

@Weeeeeef

6 жыл бұрын

bighare08 you are wrong. The cheetah is much faster. I ve watch many video of *anteloppe ( not gazelle )vs cheetah and cheetah caught it easily.

@oladipupodurotimi4754

5 жыл бұрын

That's not true. A cheetah at full speed smokes any pronghorn since the pronghorn has the same speed or even slightly slower than Springboks since it's heavier

@razatiger22

4 жыл бұрын

@@oladipupodurotimi4754 Gazelles are actually faster than pronghorn and springboks. They can also turn on a dime.

@jamesaron1967

3 жыл бұрын

@@razatiger22 Tsessebe are faster still.

They probably evolved to out-run the North American cheetah, which is now extinct. They can't match its speed but they are fast over a much longer distance.

@yassine6962

4 жыл бұрын

longwing or there are not woolly cheetah

I'm reading 'The Animal Dialogues' by Craig Childs and he talks about how they have a low center of gravity, a flexible spine more similar to cats than most prey animals, and lungs and hearts twice the size of humans. They do not bound or leap but run with their bodies level which you can see in the video. They are not actually antelopes but are unique to western North America and the only animal of its genetic kind in the world.

None of these shots were full speed. Pronghorns at full speed are a sight to behold.

It’s crazy seeing all of these amazing abilities from animals and then realizing humans can outrun the whole kingdom when it comes down to pure distance running.

@robertm7486

3 жыл бұрын

Pretty sure wed get merked by a wolf. Although theres a famous marathon race in uk i think man v horse over 26 ish miles pretty sure man normally wjns.

@krististevens54322

2 жыл бұрын

@Mimi Kyuki I know a ton about hippos. They are fascinating to me. They can run upwards of 19MPH. I just told my mom this fact yesterday. She was shocked and said "REALLY?!" I said, "yes and they also kill more humans that any other 'land' animal each year"

@danyeo

Жыл бұрын

I believe a wolf would easily beat any human in a marathon. A wolf would get such a huge lead it could walk the last few miles. Wolves have incredible endurance.

@IsaacRubio-jo2xz

9 ай бұрын

Most people including me can't run 10 miles

@evanhsieh

Ай бұрын

@@robertm7486 Wolves could never keep up with an ultramarathoner. Once someone ran 199 miles in 24 hours which is roughly 7:14 minute mile pace(or 8.28mph).

Daaamn! 😂 From far away they look like three motorcycles. I mean just look at the dust when they run! Wow!

pronghorns can run all day even over the most rugged terrain, they have huge nostrils and very large lungs and heart.

@missano3856

4 жыл бұрын

They can't handle rugged terrain, they can't(or won't) jump fences and they hate icy pavement.

The suspension on your car is wonderful

To think these animals is more than twice as fast as Usain Bolt.

In this video they are running at cruising speed. I've seen them run like that for miles. When they are in full sprint they hold their heads lower and there gait is longer. A true speed measurement for the North American Pronghorn is probably in the neighborhood of 75mph. Again, I personally witnessed and recorded an adult male accelerate away from me when I was going 68mph.

I like the part of the video when they are passing your car! :)

Still running from the ice age American cheetah that died out 12k years ago, still haunted by an ancient ghost

The speed isn't the impressive part. The fact that they are literally born to run is the impressive part. They have the best stamina out of all living organisms.

@joepie998

2 жыл бұрын

I thought humans had the best stamina

This is why the Pronghorn is the best running animal in world. Second fastest after the cheetah but able to run for much longer amount of time then the cheetah.

You recorded a pronghorn going faster than 68 mph? Where is the video? Post it on youtube so everyone can see it.

27 thumbs down were from cheetahs.

@wrestler-kickboxer2524

4 жыл бұрын

??????

@jporpmer

4 жыл бұрын

Cheetah went extinct here in america... they were pronghorn ancient predators...

@pineapplepenumbra

4 жыл бұрын

@@wrestler-kickboxer2524 Sorry, I made a typo and left out the "r" from "from". Does it make sense now?

@pineapplepenumbra

4 жыл бұрын

@@jporpmer Makes sense, nothing else could catch them unless it lay in wait and ambushed them.

@pineapplepenumbra

3 жыл бұрын

@Mimi Kyuki True (they are about 1 - 20 mph faster, depending on which source you read), but they can't keep up their top speed for very long.

That looked like a jog. 👍🏼

I agree with this. They can maintain their speeds longer as well.

I just looked these up because I'm reading "The wild life of our bodies - Rob Dunn". Impressive.

Pronghorns have been clocked at over 60 mph, and they can maintain a seed of 45 mph for about 2-4 miles.

What if a cheetah and pronghorn had a race?

They evolved to run 65 mph to out run/out last the Cheetah when it was a major predator on this continent.

Wowza! Fastest land mammals in North America, with the longest migration

@MRGooodwineTV

7 жыл бұрын

Rick Reynolds and second fastest land animal behind the cheetah

@rickreynolds3604

7 жыл бұрын

Right on! So interesting that scientists believe they co-evolved with the now-extinct North American cheetah, and that the cheetah migrated to Africa where it continued to evolve into today's cheetah.

@critiqueandcomedy

5 жыл бұрын

@@rickreynolds3604 WOWZA

61 mph is the fastes they have ever been CLOCKED so like a speed detector and assumed even faster. they can also run at those speeds longer than a cheetah runs at up to 70 mph

It feels like they're not running at full speed.

@aronchai I don't think they were!

They almost look more like they're gliding through the air rather than running.

**runs across the road** "what the hell is this big flat rock" "yeah has this always been here?"

They don't even look like they're working that hard.

This is the "cruiser" speed.

I love pronghorn’s they can run up to 60 mph almost as fast as a Cheetah and cheetahs can run up to 75 mph.

They could run a Marathon in 45 minutes. Kinda insane, really :-P

@Weeeeeef

6 жыл бұрын

Olaf Klischat impossible your crazy. They can run full speed for about 2mins but there real indurance is about 6mins.

@AceofDlamonds

5 жыл бұрын

Nope....humans have too long an endurance...animals go top speed in short bursts.....

@pineapplepenumbra

5 жыл бұрын

I would have thought, if they can keep up 30 mph for 20 miles, then they could do 25 mph for 26 miles, so a marathon in just over an hour.

@misconceptions5613

5 жыл бұрын

V Ling u have to be joking. Run 30mph for three days and then call animals low stamina. U literally have no idea what ur talking about

They outcompeted their natural predator

Full speed? Where's the speedometer?

Fastest medium distance runners in the world. Once outran the scientist, T. A. Vaughan.. he was in a plane.

Lmao, I used this vid for a class presentation xD

@oliversliveonyt1232

3 жыл бұрын

Kewl

Cheetah is needed to be reintroduced in those lands. C'mon America it's time for other life forms too.

Dang. Watch these animals reach 70 mph. While the cheetah is 75 mph. I'm telling you, these animals can reach 70 mph. They already reached a total of 64 mph.

they are more related to giraffes then antelopes

looked like 20mph, not 60 :o

That wasn’t full speed or they would have been in a longer stretch

Cheetah favorite meal in the Past

Clickbait. They were running at full speed for probably 10 seconds.

That wasn't full speed. Unless of course the antelope in Wyoming are way faster than in Texas. In Wyoming when they kick it into high gear, they dip their heads and, at least to the human eye, they have all four legs in the air between each step, at top speed.

i wonder if someone places a cheetah in the middle of north america and starts hunting the antelope, do the pronghorns recognize a cheetah simply by instinct because of american cheetahs?

there was once, a couple thousand years ago; two species of north American cheetah. The Pronghorn developed its speed and endurance to out pace their predators. Even though the cheetahs are gone, they kept their speed

60 mph full speed.

It is supposed that the pronghorn's speed (62 m.p.h. recorded max) was an adaptation that enabled them to outrun the (now extinct) American cheetah, which went extinct 11,000 years ago. A pronghorn's speed now far outstrips any extant predators. Cool little bit of trivia, huh?

Pronghorn is the 2nd fastest land mammal

@danyeo

4 жыл бұрын

But #1 in any race more than 800 yards. When a Cheetah stops and runs out of gas the Pronghorn keeps going for miles.

the prong horn is faster than a cheetah because cheetah can gettired by running by chasing prey

@riot2136

4 жыл бұрын

pauline griffin they aren’t faster than a cheetah but they can run longer.

That definitely wasn't their full speed of 65 mph lol

LOL i guess they failed to mention that in whatever nature program he was watching...

haahahahhahahahahahhahahha the back of the pronghorn looks like a giant butt XD

I actually heard that this is the fastest land animal while running round a bend or a turn because it can maintain its top speed through out. Where as a cheetah has to slowdown to grip turns etc..

It is the 2nd fastest land mammal, some are faster than cheetahs, but the fastest animal is the peregrine falcon.

@Abdi-libaax

9 жыл бұрын

They don't come close to a cheetah. Some faster?

@Alnivol666

9 жыл бұрын

abdi1983 : Their top speed doesn't come close, but cheetahs don't have endurance. These guys have.

@Abdi-libaax

9 жыл бұрын

Alnivol666 well the comment said some are faster than a cheetah.

@111thomas111

9 жыл бұрын

Alnivol666 they can run 90kph and run 60 kph for over 10km. they are the best runners, cheetahs can only run for almost 100meters.

@Abdi-libaax

9 жыл бұрын

chuck norris cheetah is still king of speed.

stride is similar to the cheetah

*Fastest land animal in the western hemisphere* . it still makes me laugh cuz the car sounds like it can't keep up.

@mayab.117

8 ай бұрын

They can not run faster than a car.

@gigas81

8 ай бұрын

@@mayab.117 whoosh!!

@mayab.117

8 ай бұрын

I see that whoosh a lot, does it mean a joke or something? Because of course humans and animals can't outrun something that goes way beyond 90 mph! Just curious, I think one time someone said it means a joke!

@mayab.117

8 ай бұрын

@@gigas81 The whoosh represents me missing a joke, huh? 😉🙏

They can run of cheetahs derp...

Who else came from total drama season 2 ep1

well when you are driving 45mph and they are still passing you that is pretty close to full speed... mate

They dont appear to be as fast as a Thomson Gazelle.

That was no way full speed, those animals can almost run at 100 km/h. Why to post stuff like this? What is the point ??

@AllRounder-km3lh

3 жыл бұрын

Pronghorn max top speed measured till now is 55mph only

Animals can't even compare when it comes to the insect world. For example if an ant was human size it would have a top speed of 400 miles an hour. To put this in perspective even the fastest formula one car wouldn't stqnd a chance against this human sized ant.

@mayab.117

8 ай бұрын

Exactly, these pronghorn aren't special or amazing! As creatures get farther, you realize how slow both humans and animals truly are! The trophy goes to insects, not pronghorn! Insects are lucky, reaching such high speeds.

NA cheetahs lived in diverse habitats, including those with mountain goats, and there is no direct evidence that they hunted like today's cheetah. What we do have are reports of pronghorns racing cars and cutting in front at top speed. This sounds a lot like sexual selection in action with the sexiest pronghorn being the fastest pronghorn.

@dinobernaro3030

4 жыл бұрын

The person wasn't going that fast, of course, a car can go a lot faster than that slow pronghorn.

@mayab.117

8 ай бұрын

A car can go over a 100 mph, no way they are faster than a 🚗 car and they're not!

i wonder how nutritious the meat is...

Joe rogan anyone?

i killed one while it was hauling ass once, it was dope as fuck.

Animals don't impress me!!!! They can't go 100 something miles per hour! Pronghorns are not fast, they're faster than us, but they're not fast!

Not full speed

record speed of a pronghorn is 70 mph.

run off cheetahs? they are a north american, when are they ever going to have to run off a cheetah?

@reyleonoras195

4 жыл бұрын

North American cheetah extinct 11,000 yrs ago

birds don't count as "land animals"

That's not full speed!

They are indeed a beautiful and amazing critter. They still can't outrun a 180 grain, boat tailed soft point .308 bullet. I just had one try to race my bullet last Tuesday morning. Needless to say, the bullet won and I started eating her last night. I grilled up some more of her at lunch today. On Friday morning I plan to see if one of her sisters can outrun my .308.

Not full speed, some loping, some faster, but not full speed.

lol, nowhere near full speed mate

The prong horn can run up to 100mph per hour

@riot2136

4 жыл бұрын

Itssiennaorsomething Animation's stop saying that, no they can’t lmao

@simonnyang3337

3 жыл бұрын

@@riot2136 IKR when I saw this comment my jaw droped

Joe rogan

sad that people hunt these. They are one of North Americas few cool mammals, and people still blow them away. Ridiculous that people find it more fun to kill an animal, than to observe the beauty in nature.

@Garrett1240

5 жыл бұрын

You aren't familiar with the contemporary literature regarding the Pronghorn's population and range in the United States. The Pronghorn once numbered a mere 13,000 around the beginning of the 20th century. Today, they number between 650,000-1,000,000 in the US. Hunting is of course needed to manage the population and the ecological balance, and because of the strict limitations placed on the hunting of the species by State Agencies over the last century, the Pronghorn has recovered to a point where it faces no threat of extirpation in any of its localized habitats despite the increase in human settlement and barriers to migration such as fencing and roads.

@gus473

5 жыл бұрын

@@Garrett1240 Kinda long-winded, Ole Okie. Not as many in West Texas or New Mexico as in 1960s & 70s, for multiple reasons

@adityagodavarti2030

4 жыл бұрын

It is very depressing.