slgwv's photos with the keyword: Antelocapra americana

What my son called this pronghorn buck. Apparently this guy had lost the challenge to a younger rival, and so had been ejected from the herd. He was still tagging along after them, tho. In the vicinity of the old Nevada Quicksilver Mine--I don't know if the derelict structure was related to the mine, however.

Antelocapra americana . Off the Bottle Creek Ranch road in northern Nevada. The pronghorn "antelope" isn't a true antelope at all, but the last survivor of a whole group of ruminants intermediate between deer and cows/true antelope. They've made a good comeback in their historic range in the last few decades.

Antelocapra americana. The pronghorn "antelope" of North America is actually the last surviving member of a group of ruminants intermediate between deer and cows/true antelope. Both sexes have horns, with the males' much longer, that consist of a bony core and outer sheath that's shed annually. Big Smoky Valley, Nevada, USA. The prominent gray-green shrub is sagebrush. When I was a kid we _never_ used to see antelope in these central Nevada valleys--they'd all been exterminated by the late 19th century or so. In recent decades, there's been a big effort to reintroduce pronghorns to their historic range--with some success, as seen here! Map position approximate due to the loss of the "satellite view" feature.