Home, Home on the Range…….

where the deer and the antelope play. Well, they aren’t actually antelope, but that’s what they are called in Colorado. They are actually pronghorns. The name is derived from the forward projection or prong on each horn. They are extraordinarily fast. They can maintain 40 miles an hour for several miles and 60 MPH for short bursts. They are the fastest animal in the Western Hemisphere and the second fastest land mammal in the world, after the cheetah. 

It’s a game management success story. In the 1940s, there were only 5,000 and now there are 85,000 statewide. We saw many of they grazing as we drove south from Wyoming.