Montana wildlife: Line of pronghorn in a sagebrush sea, Montana, USA
Line of pronghorn (Antilocapra americana) in a sagebrush sea, Montana, USA.
The second image is of a shed horn of a pronghorn. I found this shed horn while walking around in the sagebrush. Pronghorns shed their horns every year around end October-November. The horn is like a sheath that covers a bony core (which stays attached to the animal of course). After the keratinous sheath is shed a new horn is grown. In this sense they are different from other species with horns such as bison, mountain goats, and bighorn sheep which never shed their horns.
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Line of pronghorn (Antilocapra americana) in a sagebrush sea, Montana, USALine of pronghorn (Antilocapra americana) in a sagebrush sea, Montana, USA
Shed horn of a pronghorn (Antilocapra americana), Montana, USAShed horn of a pronghorn (Antilocapra americana), Montana, USA. I found this shed horn while walking around. Pronghorns shed their horns every year. The horn is like a sheath that covers a bony core (which stays attached to the animal of course). After the keratinous sheath is shed a new horn is grown. In this sense they are different from other species with horns such as bison, goats, sheep which never shed their horns.