Sonoran+Pronghorn

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Most pronghorn are on grasslands receiving between 10~15" of rainfall, between 4000 and 6000 elevation. Pronghorn need open, flat valleys to make use of their most famous attributes speed and eyesight. The young are born in May or June, weighing anywhere from 4 to 12 pounds according to various sources. About 60% of the births being twins. Within a day or two, the 16 inch tall fawn will be able to sprint at speeds up to 25 mph. The height of the Pronghorn is about 3 feet at shoulders. They get to about 4.8 feet head to tail in length. Pronghorn can get up to the speed of 60 mph. Pronghorn have the lifespan up to 10 to 12 years. Herbs, cacti, and desert grasses are the Sonoran Pronghorns diet. Historically Sonoran Pronghorn traveled across vast expanses of the Sonoran desert in Arizona, California, and Sonora Mexico. Currently it is confinded to fragments of its former range with only three small populations remaining. One in South West Arizona, and two separate populations in Mexico.The Sonoran pronhorn, Antilocapra america sonoriensis, is a desert subspecies. Only about 30 of the animals remain in the United States and another 350 to 400 in northern Sonora Mexico. For most of the 19th cenrury the Sonoran population numberd in the thousands. Then in the late 1800s, as settlers arrived in the southwest, land was cleared for farms and homes. Fences were erected and habitat and range disappeared. Hunters also killed the animals for food. By 1915 the Sonoran Pronghorn population had dwindled to about 1500. In 1967 the animal was listed endangered.