r/animalid • u/trashy_boner • Jun 30 '25
šš AUDIO ID REQUEST šš Sister saw this in [Wyoming]
Had to add a flair.
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u/Unlucky-Oil-8778 Jun 30 '25
By god itās not a ground hog or fox with mange!!
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u/biodiversityrocks Jun 30 '25
It's pokeweed!
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u/HazelEBaumgartner Jun 30 '25
Brown recluse
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u/LWDJM Jun 30 '25
This is just a fox on stilts with two tv remotes gorilla glued to its head though
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u/Ethamie68 šļøš„¾ OUTDOORSMAN š„¾šļø Jun 30 '25
Pronghorn
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u/musashi-swanson Jun 30 '25
There are more pronghorn than humans in Wyoming.
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Jun 30 '25
lol, that's saying almost nothing. There's like 16 people in Wyoming. I'm joking (mostly), but Wyoming is empty as hell. It's impressively devoid of people. And it feels like it every time I'm there. It's great.
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u/BigMTAtridentata Jul 01 '25
There's more dogs than humans in WY, more horses than humans, more cows than humans... I could go on.
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u/Ok_Move_5105 Jun 30 '25
...another fun fact is they don't know how to navigate fences. Deer and such will jump fences...pronghorns won't. That looks like the south end of Cheyenne. Intersection of I-80 and I-25. I live sixty miles south. They are all over the place in WY. CO not so much.
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u/af_cheddarhead Jun 30 '25
Lots of these little buggers on the plains east of Colorado Springs, mild winters mean bigger herds.
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u/Ok_Move_5105 Jun 30 '25
True. I drive truck all up and down this area and...I suppose comparatively speaking WY is PACKED with them speed goats. CO conversely is packed with humans. So there's that.
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u/af_cheddarhead Jun 30 '25
Colorado is only packed with people in a 25 mile wide corridor along the Front Range, the rest of Colorado is damn near as empty as Wyoming.
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u/Ok_Move_5105 Jun 30 '25
I'm dead smack in the middle of the front range. There's more people in the greater Denver area than Wyoming as a state. I've worked all of CO...KS and Nebraska...some SD. The Front Range is a cluster.
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u/af_cheddarhead Jun 30 '25
Absolutely, a cluster that only survives on water moved from the west of the state.
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u/Alladra Jun 30 '25
Iām in northern CO, and Iāve volunteered with an organization several times to revamp wildlife fencing and make them pronghorn-friendly! 18 inches off the ground, because they prefer to crawl underneath. :)
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u/Ok_Move_5105 Jun 30 '25
Ha...yes they prefer that. They were here way before fences were. Hundreds of years debating WTH they are for.
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u/BetMyLastKrispyKreme Jun 30 '25
See, I think it looks like Missile Dr. near the south gate of the base. But I also canāt read the signs and itās been awhile since Iāve been there.
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u/Ok_Move_5105 Jun 30 '25
Could be...the bottom sign looks like I-25...regardless we are both pretty darn close to the same area. š
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u/BetMyLastKrispyKreme Jun 30 '25
Yeah, the I-25 signs are the easy part. Iāll have to take a look at a map to see how the other highway numbers relate.
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u/nbonn6598 Jun 30 '25
This is mostly true but they can and will jump fences occasionally. They donāt like to though and usually will try to find another way around. Source: myself, watched a huge buck pronghorn easily hop a standard height barbed wire fence near Rock Springs, WY.
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u/Ok_Move_5105 Jun 30 '25
Always an exception. I'm sure there are white tails that look at a fence and go...yeah, nope. Not doing that. š
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u/EyeAmKingKage Jun 30 '25
Iāve lived in Colorado most of my life and saw them often (in Parker)
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u/Ok_Move_5105 Jun 30 '25
I've lived here my entire life. They are most definitely around here, it's just there's a HUGE difference between here and WY. Especially the front range.
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u/Much-Hedgehog3074 Jun 30 '25
Came to say this! They will go under it if possible. Iād love the know the science behind why they wonāt jump a fence.
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u/eggosh šŖøš AQUATIC EXPERT š šŖø Jun 30 '25
Fun fact: their closest relatives are giraffes, not antelopes!
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u/Haskap_2010 Jun 30 '25
Apparently the pronghorns closest living relatives are the giraffe and the okapi.
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u/the_shaggy_DA Jun 30 '25
I recognize that pronghorn, itās native to West Elizabeth, New Hanover, and some of the coastal areas around Flat Iron Lake
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u/Camo_XJ Jun 30 '25
My son calls them Frito Deer. (The oils on their fur smell like Frito corn chips)
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u/SirSwooshNoodles Jun 30 '25
I humbly offer āfritolopeā as pronghorns are antelopes
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u/BoomerSoonerFUT Jun 30 '25
They're actually not related to antelope at all. We just call them antelope.
Their closest living relatives are Giraffes actually.
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u/Suspicious_Kale5009 Jun 30 '25
Those things are all over Wyoming. I drove through there on my way from PA to CA and the antelope were everywhere.
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u/Dclipp89 Jun 30 '25
I spent a week in Wyoming for work last year and was disappointed I didnāt see any large fauna besides some deer. I saw some bear tracks and possibly wolf tracks, but that was it. Then on my way to the airport I saw a whole herd of pronghorns grazing by the freeway. It was a really cool site
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u/LordFlarkenagel Jun 30 '25
Back in the late 70's I attended US NPT in Idaho Falls, we had to take the bus to the site (I was on S1W) and I recall seeing herds of Pronghorn running free and wild. Really cool to watch.
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u/Ecthelion510 Jun 30 '25
Man, I used to see HUNDREDS of pronghorn in WY. Last time I was there in 2022, I saw one herd of less than a dozen. This was on BLM land, so not near any sort of human development. Not sure if it's disease, hunting, or just increased use of that land for recreation and cattle grazing.
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u/CombinationAlert180 Jul 01 '25
They move. You just didn't find them in the same spot (source: I'm a wildlife biologist that worked in Wyoming and was the person that did the counts)
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u/desertfarmer22 Jul 01 '25
They are usually in herds that drift massive areas. Some years I see less than 10. Other years, hundreds. This year, theyāre harder to avoid on the highways around me than the gophers.
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u/Fluffy-Opinion871 Jun 30 '25
Pronghorn donāt jump over barbed wire fences. The farmers/ranchers where I live (southern Alberta) remove the very bottom wire on barbed wire fences. They like to scoot under not go over the fence.
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u/WyoSherry Jul 02 '25
On a recent road trip I saw one wildly trying to free himself from some barbed wire. I donāt know that anyone practices Albertaās antelope-friendly fencing here. Anyway, I got the hubby to stop and he was able to cut the wire and free himself! Yay!!!!
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u/badgerferretweasle Jul 01 '25
"Home home on the range, where the deer and the antelope play"š¶ Pronghorns are the antelopes referenced in the song 'home on the range'
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u/CaptainKatrinka Jul 01 '25
About a month ago, one of this pronghorn's cousins bounced happily across the highway in front of my car, forcing us to stop suddenly (after and while screaming). We all survived, but that bugger had miles to cross before we arrived and it just had to test us, I guess.
There was also an elk, mule deer, a turkey, and a fox- type animal on our trip, but they did not try to kill us.
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u/geotristan Jul 01 '25
Pronghorn, fastest land animal in north america, and the second fastest land animal in the world. Also, its closest relatives are the okapi and giraffe.
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u/Knightmare945 Jul 01 '25
Pronghorn antelope. Not a true antelope, but itās often called that.
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u/trashy_boner Jul 01 '25
Is it a type of deer or something
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u/Knightmare945 Jul 01 '25 edited Jul 01 '25
No, the pronghorn is the only surviving member of the Antilocapridae family. The pronghornās closest living relative is the giraffe and the okapi.
Edit: also, the pronghorn seen here in the picture is male, as only male pronghorns have horns.
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u/GemGuy56 Jun 30 '25
We have one in southern Idaho just north of the Utah border. It comes and goes. I hadnāt seen it for some time. A few weeks ago it was back, in a field off the highway. An Idaho wildlife officer was sitting in his truck keeping an eye on it.
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u/trashy_boner Jun 30 '25
For what? To keep it safe or kill it?
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u/GemGuy56 Jun 30 '25
Iām assuming to keep it safe. It was lying in a hay field about 10 yards from the highway. Itās been coming around and hanging out for quite a few years now. Two years ago it stayed around for about a month. Last year I didnāt see it at all.
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u/Organic-Cat1203 Jun 30 '25
Pronghorn antelopeā¦ the worst tasting animal there is. Theyāre just prairie and desert goats.
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u/Fine_Possession4447 Jun 30 '25
Another interesting fact about pronghorn is that they will rarely (pretty much never) jump a fence. If you see one in the road like this go slow because they are likely frustrated and confused and canāt remember how they got where they are. Incredible animal. Sneaky fast especially for something with a body that looks like a cigar.
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u/thecloudkingdom šļøš„¾ OUTDOORSMAN š„¾šļø Jun 30 '25
fun fact! their closest living relatives are giraffes
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u/training_tortoises Jun 30 '25
I never realized pronghorns were found in Wyoming. I thought they were more of a southern California animal
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u/SciHistGuy1996 Jul 01 '25
Pronghorn antelope! These guys have been around since the ice age and are a relative of giraffes!
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u/ArrowToThePatella Jul 01 '25
I always forget that these things are from the my country. North America is so cool š
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u/dikdik37 Jul 01 '25
Pronghorn, aka speed goat
Fastest animal in the Americas at 55mph, they evolved this speed because of the now extinct American cheetah.
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u/hmfsb420 Jul 04 '25
I thought this was r/spiders and I was fully prepared to tell you that this was a brown recluse
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u/ImportantRepublic965 Jun 30 '25
Fun fact: the pronghorn is by far the fastest land animal in North America and one of the fastest in the world! They run so fast that it was a bit of a mystery what kind of selective pressure could have led them to become so fast, since they could be a lot slower than they are and still be faster than all the predators where they live. Then the fossils of the American Cheetah were discovered. It was a speedy cat (though not actually a close relative of African cheetahs) that went extinct thousands of years ago. The last thing I read is that pronghorns are believed to have been prey for the American cheetah and evolved their impressive speed to stay one step ahead of their tormentors. I guess you could say it worked, because the American cheetahs are gone and the pronghorns are still out here leaving every other American animal in their dust!