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  • There are specific calls for cows, elk, prong-horned antelope and domestic cats, and these calls are consistent across prairie dog colonies, Slobodchikoff says.

    Rodents' Talk Isn't Just 'Cheep' 2005

  • There Ramasan presided over the spit with the huge prong-horned urf buck slain by the joint efforts of Hrruban and Terran hunters for the occasion.

    Decision at Doona McCaffrey, Anne 1969

  • These mountains were the haunt of the elk, the big-horned sheep, black-and white-tailed deer, grizzly, cinnamon, silver tip, and brown and black bears; the porcupine, racoon and beaver; also the prong-horned antelope, though it is more of a plains country animal.

    Ranching, Sport and Travel Thomas Carson

  • In April the prong-horned herds come back, but now all broken up into straggling parties.

    The Ranchman's Rifle on Crag and Prairie 1896

  • If a man can shoot the last living Burchell zebra, or prong-horned antelope, and be a sportsman and

    Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation William Temple Hornaday 1895

  • Of American animals it should include the prong-horned antelope, Mexican mountain sheep, all the mountain sheep and goats in the United States, the California grizzly bear, mule deer, West Indian seal and California elephant seal and walrus.

    Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation William Temple Hornaday 1895

  • The range is necessary to contain representatives of the big game of the plains that has been so ruthlessly swept away, and particularly the vanishing prong-horned antelope, once very numerous in that region.

    Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation William Temple Hornaday 1895

  • Antelope, prong-horned attempts to transplant in Alberta in Montana in Nevada in Texas in Wyoming lumpy jaw in physical weakness of present status of preserve in Montana wrong to kill.

    Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation William Temple Hornaday 1895

  • Of prong-horned antelope, several bands remain, but it is reported that they are steadily diminishing.

    Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation William Temple Hornaday 1895

  • The prong-horned antelope herd is so tame that it is difficult to keep it out of the streets of Gardiner, on the Montana side of the line.

    Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation William Temple Hornaday 1895

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