Outrunning extinction: The pronghorn clocks in at 61mph, outpacing all predators in its habitat, even outliving its fiercest rival, the American cheetah. A survival tale millions of years in the making! EvolutionOfSpeed SurvivalOfTheFastest 🏃♂️🦌
The American pronghorn is a hoofed mammal native to North America. It's not an antelope, and it's not a sheep, although it has traditionally been called both.
, saber-toothed cats and jaguars. "There would have been a very diverse predator community," says Barnowe-Meyer.Pronghorns and Cheetahs Figueirido says that the species may also have been closely related to the mountain lion that we see in North America today, its body bulkier rather than the streamlined version from Africa. We can't know its exact velocity because, while the morphology of the bones shows it was fast, we weren't actually there to clock its speed.
The American cheetah went extinct around 12,000 years ago at the end of the Pleistocene, along with many of the other predators that lived alongside the pronghorn, likely due to climatic changes and a loss of prey density.Even without many predation pressures of the past, pronghorns still retain the evolutionary qualities that helped them survive millions of years ago. "It's an animal that has been specialized to deal with a problem that no longer exists," says Barnowe-Meyer.
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