American Pronghorn Forefoot

$58.00

The Pronghorn is sometimes considered a living fossil. It shows many primitive traits. Perhaps the most obvious primitive attribute is in that pronghorns shed their horns yearly just like a deer. It is the only living horned animal that does this.

Description

American Pronghorn Forefoot Replica measures 12.4 inches. American Pronghorn Forefoot is museum quality polyurethane resin cast. Made in USA. Our precise foot can be used as a teaching tool, museum foot exhibit, home décor foot, or office décor foot.

The American pronghorn or Antilocapra americana is a species of artiodactyl (even-toed, hoofed) mammal indigenous to interior western and central North America.

Though not an antelope, it is often known colloquially in North America as the American antelope, prong buck, pronghorn antelope, prairie antelope, or simply antelope because it closely resembles the true antelopes of the Old World and fills a similar ecological niche due to parallel evolution.

American pronghorn or Antilocapra americana is the only surviving member of the family Antilocapridae. During the Pleistocene epoch, about 12 antilocaprid species existed in North America. Three other genera (Capromeryx, Stockoceros and Tetrameryx) existed when humans entered North America but are now extinct.

American pronghorn or Antilocapra americana is a member of the superfamily Giraffoidea, the pronghorn’s closest living relatives are the giraffes and okapi. The Giraffoidea are in turn members of the infraorder Pecora, making pronghorns more distant relatives of the Cervidae (deer) and Bovidae (cattle, goats, sheep, antelopes, and gazelles), among others.

The American pronghorn or Antilocapra americana is the symbol of the American Society of Mammalogists.

American pronghorn or Antilocapra americana have distinct white fur on their rumps, sides, breasts, bellies, and across their throats. Adult males are 1.3–1.5 m (4 ft. 3 in–4 ft. 11 in) long from nose to tail, stand 81–104 cm (32–41 in) high at the shoulder, and weigh 40–65 kg (88–143 lb.).

The females are the same height as males, but weigh 34–48 kg (75 to 106 lb.). The feet have two hooves, with no dewclaws. Their body temperature is 38 degrees C (100 °F).

Each horn of the pronghorn is composed of a slender, laterally flattened blade of bone which is thought to grow from the frontal bones of the skull, or from the subcutaneous tissues of the scalp, forming a permanent core.

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Additional information

Weight 5 lbs
Dimensions 12.4 in
American Pronghorn Facts

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Antilocapridae
Scientific name: antilocapra-americana
Subfamily: Antilocaprinae
Tribe: Antilocaprini
Genus: Antilocapra
Species: A. americana
Binomial Name: Antilocapra americana
Conservation status: Least Concern