Ice-Age Survivor Pronghorn Offers a Playbook for a Warming West

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Source: High Country News
Ice-Age Survivor Pronghorn Offers a Playbook for a Warming West
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Pronghorns survived deep-time climate upheavals in North America through rapid reproduction, a drought-tolerant diet, and predator shifts, but today they face habitat fragmentation, warmer temperatures, drought and wildfires in the West—lessons in adaptation that humans may need to heed as climate change accelerates.

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