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  2. Pronghorn - Wikipedia

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    Though not an antelope, it is known colloquially in North America as the American antelope, prong buck, pronghorn antelope and prairie antelope, [5] because it closely resembles the antelopes of the Old World and fills a similar ecological niche due to parallel evolution. [6] It is the only surviving member of the family Antilocapridae. [7]

  3. Antilocapridae - Wikipedia

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    Only one species, the pronghorn (Antilocapra americana), is living today; all other members of the family are extinct. The living pronghorn is a small ruminant mammal resembling an antelope . Description

  4. Antelope - Wikipedia

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    Antelope are a common symbol in heraldry, though they occur in a highly distorted form from nature. The heraldic antelope has the body of a stag and the tail of a lion, with serrated horns, and a small tusk at the end of its snout. This bizarre and inaccurate form was invented by European heralds in the Middle Ages, who knew little of foreign ...

  5. Category:Pronghorns - Wikipedia

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    Articles relating to the Pronghorn, a species of artiodactyl (even-toed, hoofed) mammal indigenous to interior western and central North America.Though not an antelope, it is known colloquially in North America as the American antelope, prong buck, pronghorn antelope, prairie antelope, or simply antelopebecause it closely resembles the antelopes of the Old World and fills a similar ecological ...

  6. Antilocapra - Wikipedia

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    Another species, the Pacific pronghorn, lived in California during the Late Pleistocene and survived as recently as 12,000 BP. [3] The name means "antelope-goat". Antilocapra is the only surviving genus of pronghorn, though three other genera ( Capromeryx , [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Stockoceros [ 6 ] [ 7 ] and Tetrameryx [ 8 ] ) existed in North America up ...

  7. Mexican pronghorn - Wikipedia

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    With the Mexican pronghorn being an endangered species due to habitat destruction, overgrazing, poaching, and fencing of ranches, efforts have been made to reintroduce them into Mexico. Human intervention may be necessary, such as growing seedlings and transplants of the flora the animals survive on.

  8. The symptoms of influenza A and B can be identical, experts ...

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    It's flu season right now, and the U.S. is in the midst of a wave that's straining hospitals. But not all influenza is the same. There are some notable differences between flu A and flu B strains ...

  9. Thomson's gazelle - Wikipedia

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    A small fast antelope, the Thomson's gazelle is said to have top speeds up to 80–90 km/h (50–55 mph). It is the fourth-fastest land animal, after the cheetah (its main predator), pronghorn , and springbok .