different creatures are equipped to live in different places.and moose long ago adapted to bogs and lakes, deer to forests and brushlands and bighorns to mountain peaks.the pronghorn,America's smallest "big game" mammal,is beautifully fitted to life on the wide open deserts and high plains of our western states here,its pale tan coloration, broken by bands and patches of white,blends into the sun-bleached surroundings. from a slight rise of ground, its telescopic eyes can discern an enemy long before it becomes a gently undulating landscape. the pronghorn's speed afoot is its chief claim to fame.long runs at mammal,and second only to the cheetah among all ground animals.the pronghorn is built for speed.its legs are long for its size, slender but extremely strong.the haunches that drive those pumping hind legs bulge of dewclaws.its lung capacity is exceptional,and it runs with its mouth open,sucking in great quantities of air through a windpipe that is twice the diameter of a man's.except when hampered by deep-crusted snow,it can usually outdistance any predator.new pronghorn kids are "all legs," and for the first few days they are too unsteady to run away from danger. instead,they often sprawl flat on the ground to avoid detection.within a week ,however,they can easily outdistance any person and most dogs,within a year they become a mile per minute sprinters. of the vast herds of "antelop" that once ranged throughout the american west,very few survived by the early 1900s.ranchers,unwilling to share their grazing lands,destoroyed them relentlessly,while some game department permitted far too many of them to be harvested.fortunately

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