Pronghorn Antelope
Elk
Prairie Chicken
Bison
Prairie Dog
100
Pronghorns are about three feet tall at the shoulders. They are reddish brown, but feature white stomachs and wide, white strips on their throats.
What do Pronghorns look like?
100
Elk are also called wapiti, a Native American word that means "light-colored deer."
What are Elks also called?
100
In summer, the bird feeds mostly on insects, seeds and fruits.
What do Prairie Chickens eat?
100
Bison mainly eat grasses and sedges.
What is the Bison's diet?
100
They are type of ground squirrel, found in the United States, Canada, and Mexico.
What is the Prairie Dogs habitat?
200
Fleet-footed pronghorns are among the speediest animals in North America. They can run at more than 53 miles an hour, leaving pursuing coyotes and bobcats in the dust.
What is the speed of Pronghorn Antelopes?
200
A bull (male) elk,s antlers may reach 4 feet above its head, so that the animal towers 9 feet tall.
What do Elk look like?
200
With its uniformly barred plumage, the greater prairie chicken is nearly identical to the lesser prairie chicken, though slightly darker and, aptly enough, larger.
What do Prairie Chickens look like?
200
Though bison once roamed across much of North America, today they are "ecologically extinct" as a wild species throughout most of their historic range, except for a few national parks and other wildlife areas.
What is the Bison's habitat?
200
Other species are the Black-tailed Prairie Dog, Gunnison's Prairie dog, Mexican Prairie Dog, Utah Prairie Dog, and the White-tailed Prairie Dog.
What are other Prairie Dog species?
300
Pronghorns mate each fall in the dry, open lands of western North America. Bucks gather harems of females and protect them jealously.
What is the Pronghorns mating season?
300
In early summer, elk migrate to high mountain grazing grounds where the cows (females) will give birth.
What is the Elks migrating season?
300
It hides its nests in tall, dense grass, laying 7 to 17 eggs, which the female incubates for 23 to 26 days.
What do Prairie Chickens do when they lay their eggs?
300
Known for roaming great distances, bison move continuously as they eat. The females, or cows, lead family groups. Bulls remain solitary or in small groups for most of the year, but rejoin the group during mating season.
What is the Bison's behavior?
300
These large squirrels emerge from their burrows in daylight to forage and feed on grasses, roots, and seeds.
What is the Prairie Dogs diet?
400
The meal of choice for this speedy herbivore is generally grass, sagebrush, and other vegetation.
What do Pronghorns eat?
400
During the late summer breeding season the bugling of bull elk echoes through the mountains. These powerful animals strip the velvet off their new antlers using them in violent clashes that determine who gets to mate with whom.
What is the Elks breeding season?
400
Aside form habitat loss, the largest remaining populations are in Kansas, Nebraska, and South Dakota.
What is the Prairie Chickens habitat?
400
June-September, peak activity in July-August.
What is the Bison's mating season?
400
They communicate with loud cries. a warning cry, for example, will send a town's denizens hustling to their holes at the approach of a badger, coyote, or other predator. a second, "all-clear" call alerts the community when the danger has passed.
What is the Prairie Dogs communication sound?
500
When ___ they raise the hair on their rumps to display a white warning patch that can be seen for miles.
What do Pronghorns do when their startled?
500
Elk were once found across much of North America but they were killed off and driven to take refuge in more remote locations. Today they live primarily in western North America, especially in mountains landscape such as Wyoming's National Elk Refuge and Yellowstone National Park. Some eastern U. S. states have reintroduced small elk herds into heavily wooded wilderness areas.
What is the Elks habitat?
500
Females typically lead hatchlings to stylized dances and make a booming call that can be heard for over a mile. The open courtship areas are known as "leks" or booming grounds, and the courtship displays are the species' most famous trait.
What is the Prairie Chickens most famous trait?
500
Bulls and cows do mingle until breeding season. Dominant bulls "tend" to cows, following the cow around until the cow chooses to mate. During this period, the bull blocks the cow's vision so that she may not see other competing bulls, and bellows at males striving for the cow's attention.
What is the Bison's reproduction?
500
Black-tailed prairie dogs once numbered in the hundreds of millions - maybe even over a billion - and were possibly the most abundant mammal in North America.
What is the Prairie Dogs population?
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