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From: marko@hutch (Mark O'Shea)
Newsgroups: rec.hunting
Subject: Re: Pronghorn Question
Message-ID: <1991May27.171348.29313@doug.cae.wisc.edu>
Date: 27 May 91 22:13:48 GMT
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In article <1991May23.022026.26000@doug.cae.wisc.edu.. icsg0007@cs.montana.edu writes:
.I've a question for you pronghorn hunters. My wife harvested a nice
.buck pronghorn a few years ago in northeastern Montana that had a
.patch about 3.5"x18" running parallel and next to it's spine where all
.the hair was gone. I mean there was NO hair. The hair adjacent to the
.area looked fine and healthy (ie. no mange). The skin was a little dry
.like one would expect it to be since it was exposed to the wind and
.sun.
.
.Any guesses to the cause? It wasn't long after the rut and I know that
.they can get pretty rough with one another while fighting for their
.harems. Maybe a buck ran this one through a fence a 60 mph. Or maybe
.he tripped and fell while doing 60. That could tend to remove a little
.hide.

Best guess, given the intelligence level of pronghorns, would be going
under a fence at high speed.  I have never understood why they will go
under a fence when they can so easily jump it.

Regards,
Mark O'Shea
marko@ijf1.intel.com