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From: isgtec!robert@uunet.UU.NET ("Robert A. Osborne")
Newsgroups: rec.hunting
Subject: Re: Pronghorn Question
Message-ID: <1991May30.080552.14176@doug.cae.wisc.edu>
Date: 30 May 91 13:05:52 GMT
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> marko@hutch (Mark O'Shea) writes
> In article <1991May23.022026.26000@doug.cae.wisc.edu.. icsg0007@cs.montana.edu writes:
> [about pronghorn with strip of hair missing (you know the one by now :-)]
> 
> 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.

The explanation is in any good survival manual;  energy and risk.
Never jump/climb over anything you can walk around, (or under if you're
a pronghorn :-) jumping and climbing use a great deal of energy and
the risk of injury is very great.

Rob.