Top 10 Fastest Animals In The World
7. Pronghorn Antelope, 60.89 mph
Pronghorn Antelope are North American native animal that can run very long distance with speed of 60.89 mph. Unlike other fast moving animals pronghorn Antelope have ability to run fast at the same time can travel long distance without getting tired. Even though cheetahs are faster than that of pronghorn antelope they can never run long distance with same energy as that of pronghorn antelope.
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Pronhorn Antelope grown up to a height of three feet, have very strong legs and shoulders. Pronhorn Antelopes makes 300 miles long migration in different season. Thye typically chooses bank of rivers and grasslands as migrative destinations.
The pronghorn is a species of artiodactyl mammal indigenous to interior western and central North America. Though not an antelope, it is often known colloquially in North America as the American antelope, prong buck, pronghorn antelope, or simply antelope because it closely resembles the true antelopes of the Old World and fills a similar ecological niche due to parallel evolution.
It is the only surviving member of the family Antilocapridae. During the Pleistocene period, about 12 antilocaprid species existed in North America. Three other genera existed when humans entered North America but are now extinct.
As a member of the superfamily Giraffoidea, the pronghorn’s closest living relatives are the giraffes and okapi. The Giraffoidea are in turn members of the infraorder Pecora, making pronghorns more distant relatives of the Cervidae and Bovidae, among others.