icsg0007@cs.montana.edu (05/23/91)
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. If anyone has any words of wisdom on the matter I am interested in them. Thanks, ______________________________________________________ _______________ Steve \ INTERNET : icsg0007@cs.montana.edu | BITNET : icsg0007%cs.montana.edu@mtsunix1 /___/ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - >>>----------------------->
marko@hutch (Mark O'Shea) (05/28/91)
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.comrobert@uunet.UU.NET ("Robert A. Osborne") (05/30/91)
> 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.