Pronghorns have always been fascinating to me just because of their prehistoric origin. They're not deer, goats, or even true antelope, they're a family unto themselves with no other surviving relatives.

@mhdfrb9971

2 жыл бұрын

They're related to the giraffes family distantly

@beachchaos1863

2 жыл бұрын

@@mhdfrb9971 Unlikely. Current consensus suggests that pronghorn were the first to diverge from the Pecora clade, and then giraffes & their relatives diverged later on. However this is still a contentious issue.

@mhdfrb9971

2 жыл бұрын

@@beachchaos1863 still they closest living relative today are giraffes and okapi

@indyreno2933

2 жыл бұрын

@Beach Chaos, actually, the pronghorn belongs to the superfamily Giraffoidea, which actually groups it with the giraffids, in fact, Giraffoidea is actually the most basal extant superfamily within the infraorder Pecora, it evolved earlier than the superfamilies Cervoidea (Deer and Fossil Relatives) and Bovoidea (Bovids and Fossil Relatives).

@ericgazette291

Жыл бұрын

And they are delicious .

your purpose of life : run for your life.

@teemo7714

3 жыл бұрын

run from nothing too since they dont have a predator

@leukopossum7930

2 жыл бұрын

@@teemo7714 they don’t anymore, but they used too from what I’ve gathered

saw wild pronghorns in western nebraska several years ago. it's so wonderful that such unique wildlife still exists in this country!

@nichochan8681

2 жыл бұрын

To be fair we have a few of that such as the turkey, beaver, racoons, wolverines, and rattlesnakes that were pretty much unique to North America only until we started moving around a ton as people. Now there's a ton of varying invasive species around the world.

@Squintel7

2 жыл бұрын

@@nichochan8681 Mountain lions are the most unique american mammal imo. A small cat that is bigger than an actual big cat (leopard) and can kill moose, horses elk etc. Screams and meows instead of roars, has tons of variation in size dimensions adaptions across all of the americas.

@Tofu_Pilot

9 ай бұрын

As opposed to domesticated ones, no doubt.

I came from red dead to learn about them because I had never even heard of them before

@TheropodHunter

5 жыл бұрын

Same. I'm even researching all their prehistoric relatives.

@monkeyhumourfilms6429

5 жыл бұрын

In fact every fish, horse, animal, plant and gun in the game I been researching

@TheropodHunter

5 жыл бұрын

@@monkeyhumourfilms6429 yup, and the health benefits of each herb in the game.

@monkeyhumourfilms6429

5 жыл бұрын

@@TheropodHunter It has been many times said but I will say it again. The game is simply exceptional. What is your favourite chapter?

@monkeyhumourfilms6429

5 жыл бұрын

@@TheropodHunter It may be chapter 3, loved the campsite. Robbing the bank. The shootup where you wind up in the creek, then going off to save John from the plantation house.

The American Cheetah was actually more closely related to Mountain lions, but Mountain lions are pretty closely related to cheetahs to be fair.

@user-xe2eb1zj5i

3 жыл бұрын

@Charles Lindberg 你很幽默🤪🤪

@VictorSilva-im9ug

2 жыл бұрын

Lol

@indyreno2933

2 жыл бұрын

There is no such thing as a mountain lion, they're actually called pumas.

@yerman0564

2 жыл бұрын

@@indyreno2933 by that logic there is no such thing as a snow leopard, they're actually calked irbises.

@donjon123

2 жыл бұрын

@@indyreno2933 pumas are also called mountain lions so there is such thing. You prefer to say puma good on you

Let's hope that we can preserve this beautiful animal and not make them extinct!

@Will_Russell

6 жыл бұрын

Hakeem Mulholland they’re not really close at all to being threatened.

@maggiehydeck8182

5 жыл бұрын

They may not be threatened at the moment, but their habitat is, so it is important that we protect them the same as any endangered species.

@briankelly9347

5 жыл бұрын

Most north American megafauna and others are safer then most u know white people

@hanphilnoffz8827

5 жыл бұрын

they the reason there no predator here

@greengreens6347

4 жыл бұрын

@@briankelly9347 surprisngly we dont have many endangered megafaunas.

The Earth is indeed full of surprises. What a beautiful animal that I just learned of today.

Pronghorns are such amazing creatures that give us a bit of a glimpse of what the fauna may have been like back before the ice age! I just hope that they stay on this earth for years to come…

The pronghorns here in Colorado will come right into town, they have a lot of confidence in their escape speeds hehe.

I didn't know they puffed out their butt hairs when alarmed. I have been watching nature documentaries for nearly 50 years from many channels. In all those years, and all those shows, none of them have been solely about the Prong-horned Antelope. If it's mentioned at all, it's only in passing, but never the main subject like so many other animals are. Why is that? I don't know diddly squat about them. Are they related to goats, sheep, are they truly a species of antelope? Are their horns really horns or are they like antlers and fall off each year in winter to grow back again in spring? If they are true horns, it's unusual to have horns that are branched.

@PondOfGlue

4 жыл бұрын

Their closest relative is actually the giraffe and okapi!!! Nuts right?!

@yee3335

3 жыл бұрын

what he saif about their horns falling off is what almost all deer do ' so its not unusual and yes pronghorns antlers fo fall off

@nmelkhunter1

2 жыл бұрын

Pronghorns have horns that are shed in the spring. This is unusual since animals that have horns don’t shed their horns as antlered animals shed their antlers.

@nmelkhunter1

2 жыл бұрын

@@yee3335 Pronghorn don’t have antlers, they have horns. Antlers are branched, solid and antlered animals shed their antlers. Horned animals don’t shed their horns and horns are hollow. Pronghorn do shed their horns thus making them an exception to the shedding rule.

Kinda crazy how the only reason they're so quick is so they can run from predators that don't exist anymore lol

@nmelkhunter1

2 жыл бұрын

They still use their speed to out run coyotes and, in some areas of the US, mountain lions.

my horse in red dead can't keep up

@jdmfan2170

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah i though hit was a glitch but they can quickly run at 60mph

@bigboys8000

4 жыл бұрын

@@jdmfan2170 with the energy to run all day

@nojorooney

3 жыл бұрын

My gosh, I have been seeing so many red dead comments lately, the game must be popular

Not just the Great Plains. They’re all the way into Oregon and Arizona.

It's great to know, I came to know about its vision range last day. And I'm here..

so apparently these guys are the "antelope" mentioned in Home on the Range's "where the deer and the ANTELOPE play"?

@herpderp3916

2 жыл бұрын

Yep! Except they're not even true antelope, they're the last survivors of their own prehistoric family.

Really great video!

I'm happy I could watch this I needed info of them for a speech! :)

Great video. I wanted to learn about them it was informative

I fight for them and die for them now.I Love the Pronghorns.Thank You

@nmelkhunter1

2 жыл бұрын

And I shoot them and eat them. Yummy!

Seen 1st one today in Flagstaff Arizona.... very cool!

Saw several females and a male on my road trip to California from Chicago.

he basically said "they're called pronghorn because they have a prongy horn"

:15 "this species is only found in the Great Plains of North America." Pronghorn antelope also occur in high-elevation mountain meadows in Arizona and many other Western States. I'm not sure why he's saying that these are only found in the Great Plains? Am I missing something?

@nlabanok

11 ай бұрын

Yep, we have them through the grassy high plateaus and meadows in northern and central AZ.

I am doing a test on them and I want to know more so I do not have to do school anymore and pronghorns are my favorite animal

Some of these have made it as far as the Oregon coast

I found out that these aren't even true antelopes, they're giraffidea, related to giraffes and okapis crazy

@oats8854

4 жыл бұрын

No the fuck they aren't, it even said in the video they're the only member of their family.

@SpiritBear12

4 жыл бұрын

Giraffe are a species of antelope, just extremely modified to reach leaves high up on trees that other animals can't reach.

@oats8854

4 жыл бұрын

@@SpiritBear12 Please tell me you're shitting me. Please Giraffes and okapis are part of their own family, the giraffids. Antelopes belong to the family bovidae. They're distantly related, but that doesn't mean much because they're also distantly related to whales. I can't tell if you're joking or not, but if you aren't I swear to God I'm gonna have a fucking aneurysm

@BananaMike780

3 жыл бұрын

I was only slightly wrong, I dug more and their closest living relatives are sill okapis and giraffes, don't yell at me :(

@nojorooney

3 жыл бұрын

@@oats8854 they are, please get an education.

I don’t know where you get that there only found in the Great Plains region? There a dime a dozen in the mountain west..

@nmelkhunter1

2 жыл бұрын

True. They inhabit the Plains of St Augustine in SW New Mexico as well as northern Nevada, southern Idaho, eastern Oregon and eastern Washington.

Is it legal to hunt them ?

A remnant of an ancient past.

i'm 57 years old, i had never heard of the pronghorn up until about 10 years ago...... wonder why they are such a secret?

on ne les a même pas vu courir alors que c'est le titre !

That what we call double step, imagine we do the same shit as we walk, it will be a lot bounce.

Damn so they’re like super fast giraffes

Plus the American 'Running' Hyena as well Chasmaporthetes Crocuta Ossifragus

Lewis and Clark encountered these guys

...What about the Sonoran Pronghorn

ps: Texas would be the "Southern" extent of the Prong Horn. Canada is the "Northern" extant.

“rump”😭😭

I learned about pronghorn after playing Red Dead Redemtion 2

@anthonyh2540

3 жыл бұрын

Theyre so damn fast online when i try to sedate them now i know why

Rogan & Tom Green

Is that true they can see Saturn rings?

Wouldn't it be cool if we could bring some cheetahs to the Great Plains to hunt the pronghorn again?

@blitzgaming9561

4 жыл бұрын

No

@xenox941

4 жыл бұрын

To keep them in shape 🤣

@donnydarkoh6411

3 жыл бұрын

The Cheetahs wouldn't be able to catch them and would go extinct. They're faster than any of their prey in Africa and can maintain their speed for a looong time.

@TheRandomWolf

3 жыл бұрын

Donny Darkoh well cheetahs are faster for a short time but you are still right They would actually have something to fear instead of just easily out running anything though

@TheRandomWolf

3 жыл бұрын

Might as well bring in the lions

I heard that Pronghorns are the second fastest animal in the world, only behind the cheetah.

@sergiolaurencio7534

Жыл бұрын

@MajorGalah in land. But the fastest of the fastest, that go to the peregrine falcon

Here from tiktok

Prehistoric animals

This thing can see the rings of Saturn... waw!

@MIZORAM_mafaka_hnamte

3 жыл бұрын

I just read that

They are a BEAUTIFUL ANIMAL so many here in the Midwest talk down of them an label them as a goat those same small people talk highly of their corn field rats called the WHITETAIL deer LO.L !

@OldSkoolWax

5 жыл бұрын

When they were first discovered by Europeans they called them goats, I guess it stuck

@nmelkhunter1

2 жыл бұрын

They are great table fair as well.

They look kinda funny lol

that Like in RDR2 🔴

The epitome of you have legs use them

Common knowledge among tribes. Funny how it’s just now being talked about 😅

Million dollars catch one

What about reintroduce Cheetah? They might get bigger on that .... LOVE

@CandyxKush

8 жыл бұрын

+ Daniel Huber They never found that Cheetah that was spotted wandering around in British Columbia this winter

@danielhuber4953

7 жыл бұрын

wait a littel...

@SlippyyHD

6 жыл бұрын

Would not go well at all, they would only have one food source. Cheetahs have a handful in Africa, that number in the hundreds of thousands. Also cheetahs live in Africa, they don't get blasted by winters like most of the states these pronghorn live in.

@obiwahndagobah9543

6 жыл бұрын

Asiatic cheetah cope with cold winters easily

@1legend517

6 жыл бұрын

Heliox They'd cope I reckon. Species adapt and evolve. Just look at any species introduced outside its native range. We don't give them enough credit.

Pronghorn can see ring of Saturn.

@morisd5066

3 жыл бұрын

But not Uranus 😂😂😂

These guys must be the oldest species still alive today, along with the Andean condor.

@rishikkanthravikumar6596

2 жыл бұрын

Sharks and crocodiles enter the chat

@nojorooney

2 жыл бұрын

@@rishikkanthravikumar6596 I meant like the actual species, sure crocodiles and sharks have been alive for millions of years but they were different species/subspecies than today if that makes sense, hell some crocodiles were even herbivorous or preferred to hunt prey by running on land, I think pronghorns were the same species back then and they are the same species now is what I meant to get at but yeah doubtful pronghorns are the oldest group of animals, there are some really old groups, hyenas are 22 million years old, elephants are 56 million years old, only 10 million years after the dinosaurs, ofc crocodiles and the coelacanth lived alongside the dinosaurs, and scorpions have been alive for 400 million years! They were 200 million years before the dinosaurs and are still alive today! There’s even an 800 million year old sponge fossil, literally 600 million years before the dinosaurs and they are still alive today

Pronghorns have hairy heart shaped butts. Lol.

Nov 10, 2023. If Central Asia & Africa have herds of Thousands of Antelope, then how come we only see maybe 5 Prong Horn Antelopes in North America? What the hell happened to what should be Thousands of Prong Horns in Huge herds!.. I bet Ranchers & farmers almost wiped out the entire species!

I bet they're delicious 😋

the but thing is disturbing

Yesterday morning in southern Wyoming I saw something catch one. I watched through my rifle scope as the antelope was quickly overtaken by a 180 grain, soft point .308 bullet, moving at about 3000 feet per second. Very tasty!

@tr4sh.r4t

5 жыл бұрын

Joking about the slaughter of animals now are we? wonderful world we live in...

@greengreens6347

4 жыл бұрын

Are the usually hard to get?

@JoolianV

3 жыл бұрын

@@tr4sh.r4t at least they’re eating it

I guess animals feel like everything that chases them or runs from them is just too slow for them and that they can run from it or catch up to it, I see videos of dogs trying to chase motorcycles and it's just hilarious....that motorcycle isn't slower than you, that's a show for me....animals trying to race our extremely fast machines! I hear people say the animals go as fast as their cars....no, the car just isn't going that fast, of course a car can go above 50 and 60, those are just the speed limits, a car just like a lot of our machine's speed, go up in the hundreds! I know, it's a video about an animal and I'm over here talking about machines, because they're (machines) way better and faster than this pronghorn that y'all love (I'm not kidding, though, I love human's inventions better, everyone should find their own kind amazing)

Lmao people are r here from red dead

Why can't you ship some African cheetahs. In North America.

@greengreens6347

4 жыл бұрын

They arent adapted to cold areas

@josemachina3996

4 жыл бұрын

Cause the Wolverines will eat them

Fun fact: Prong horn can run up to 100mphs per hour

@bladerskater100

4 жыл бұрын

@Autumn well these guys are litterally living fossils and have been around an dlived with mammoths and giant sloths so yeah they probaly coukd

@riot2136

4 жыл бұрын

Itssiennaorsomething Animation's there top speed is 65 miles per hour, you’re probably thinking of kilometers.

@bigboys8000

4 жыл бұрын

@@bladerskater100 living fossils are not the right saying more like a gradually evolving creature

@shafqatishan437

Жыл бұрын

@@riot2136 65 is unlikely. 60 mph at best

@shafqatishan437

Жыл бұрын

Nothing can run at 100mph. Get your facts straight dude

Just like antelope on the African plain.. except everything that would have hunted it is extinct

@rodom303

5 жыл бұрын

tfranc347 they are more closely related to giraffes than antelope

I hate this animal in red dead so hard to kill and so fast

I don't get what's so impressive about pronghorns, they aren't any more amazing than a human, plus we can create machines that go way faster than them, pronghorns can't, which is why humans are super cool beings! I love humans and so should everyone else, you should be impressed by your own kinds amazing creations! I'm sure those pronghorn get tired of that same ole slow speed, seeing all these machines go past them! They might be able to outrun most other animals, but they can't get away from a bullet or our machines!

@dinobernaro3030

4 жыл бұрын

They (pronghorn) can't escape a bullet, yes, you can dodge a bullet (absolutely), but you can't escape one, but animals don't think like that (for some reason nature doesn't program animals like that, but it's great though, I get to be entertained by the animals trying to do stuff they don't realize they can't do), they just see something coming at them or running from them and are like, "I can definitely outrun this thing!" or "I can catch up to this thing I'm chasing!" Animals don't understand that we invented stuff that's too fast to outrun or catch, they don't know they're too slow!

@JoolianV

3 жыл бұрын

@@dinobernaro3030 be a fan of both and understand that we need animals to thrive

Evolution propaganda

@JoolianV

3 жыл бұрын

Brainwashed moron

@J155P

3 жыл бұрын

@@JoolianV It takes a big person to admit that. I respect you.