छोटे ब्रांच किए गए सींग के साथ पश्चिमी उत्तरी अमेरिकी मैदानों के बेड़े एंटीलोप-जैसे जुगिस्तान

prongbuck's Usage Examples:

Again, the cheek-teeth have the tall crowns characteristic of a large number of representatives of the first group and of the prongbuck, thereby showing that Merycodus can scarcely be regarded as a primitive type.

The most noteworthy point of distinction is in the skull, in which the facial portion is sharply bent down on the posterior basal axis in the fashion characteristic of the hollow-horned ruminants (oxen, antelopes, 'c.), and the American prongbuck, instead of running more or less nearly parallel to the same, as in deer.

From North America have been obtained remains of certain ruminants which seem in some degree intermediate between deer and the prongbuck.

The Bovidae are thus brought into nearer relationship with the American prongbuck (the only living ruminant which sheds its horn-cover in the adult condition) than has generally been supposed.

From the fact that the bony horn-core of the hollow-horned ruminants first develops as a separate ossification, as do the horns of the giraffe, while the pedicle of the antlers of the deer grow direct from the frontal bone, it has been proposed to place the hollow-horned ruminants (inclusive of the prongbuck) and the giraffes in one group and the deer in another.

Gadow is of opinion that the antlers of the deer, the hornlike protuberances on the skull of the giraffe, and the true horns of the prongbuck and other hollow-horned ruminants (Bovidae) are all different stages of evolution from a single common type: the antlers of the deer being the most primitive, and the horns of the Bovidae the most specialized.

Female prongbuck may or may not have horns.

When hunting antelope (prongbuck) and deer the coyotes spread out their pack into a wide circle, endeavouring to surround their game and keep it running inside their ring until exhausted.

No true antelopes are American, the prongbuck (Antilocapra), which is commonly called "antelope" in the United States, representing a distinct group; while, as already mentioned, the Rocky Mountain or white goat stands on the borderland between antelopes and goats.

The group at the present day is divided into Girafjidae (giraffe and okapi), Cervidae (deer), Antilocapridae (prongbuck), and Bovidae (oxen, sheep, goats, antelopes, 'c.).

prongbuck's Meaning':

fleet antelope-like ruminant of western North American plains with small branched horns

Synonyms:

Antilocapra americana, pronghorn antelope, genus Antilocapra, Antilocapra, pronghorn, ruminant, American antelope,

Antonyms:

odd-toed ungulate,