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COPYRIGHT 2003 Natural History Magazine, Inc.
by John A. Byers Harvard University Press, 2003; $24.95
Travelers passing through the Great Plains called pronghorn antelope "prairie ghosts," as a testament to their speed and agility; an adult pronghorn can accelerate from zero to almost sixty miles an hour like a benzene-fueled dragster, and it cruises along effortlessly at forty-five miles an hour, easily outrunning anything that comes after it. Ever since the last lions and cheetahs died out in North America more than 10,000 years ago, there has been no serious predator on the continent that can match the pronghorn for speed. Today's hungry coyotes--the only mammals, other than you-know-who, that effectively hunt pronghorn--can only hope to snatch...
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