Pronghorn

• Scientific name: Antilocapra americana

• Description: Males 85 to 165 pounds, females 75 to 105 pounds; 3-feet tall at shoulder, looks like cross between deer and domestic goat. Coat is reddish brown to tan with prominent white rump, white on lower flanks, belly, chest and throat, and two broad white bands across the throat.

• Horns: Black, shed annually.

• Life span: 7 to 10 years in wild, 12 in captivity.

• Habitat: Plains, shortgrass prairie, mountain parks and valleys, shrublands west of the mountains.

• Diet: Forbs and browse. Occasionally cactus and grass, sagebrush and bitterbrush. Also will graze on winter wheat.

• Rutting: Mate in fall from mid-September to mid-October, give birth in late May to mid-June. Usually have twins.

• Best place to spot: Pawnee National Grasslands, Middle Park, prairie lands from Steamboat Springs west and north.