The horns, antlers, and pronghorns of male ungulates have garnered human interest through time. Males of most ungulate species require many years before producing their largest weapons. Given the life-history constraints of wild ungulates, wildlife managers have increasingly been faced with a tradeoff between hunter opportunity and the production of large-weaponed males as they set management objectives and harvest limits of big-game populations. Pronghorn (Antilocapra americana) however; possess a suite of life-history traits resulting in a precocious, faster pace-of-life relative to other ungulates. If the precocious nature of pronghorn extends to their horn growth characteristics, there may be greater flexibility to balance hunter opportunity and production of large-horned males for pronghorn as compared with other ungulates. We tested the hypothesis that the precocious nature of pronghorn would extend to their horn growth characteristics and lessen or eliminate the hunter opportunity and horn size tradeoff as compared with other ungulate species. We collected horn size, age, and remotely sensed climate data from 1,805 harvested male pronghorn from 2019-2022 in southern and central Wyoming, USA. We also simulated harvested populations of pronghorn and two other ungulate species to evaluate our predictions across species. Pronghorn attained 95% of their peak horn size by 3.5 years old. The remarkable fast pace of horn growth in pronghorn creates a framework that greatly reduces the tradeoff between hunter opportunity and horn size found in other ungulate species, leading to a unique opportunity for managers to balance both hunter opportunity and large horns in pronghorn management regimes.

In this lavishly illustrated volume, Richard E. McCabe, Bart W. O'Gara and Henry M. Reeves explore the fascinating relationship of pronghorn with people in early America, from prehistoric evidence through the Battle of Little Bighorn in 1876. The only one of fourteen pronghorn-like genera to survive the great extinction brought on by human migration into North America, the pronghorn has a long and unique history of interaction with humans on the continent, a history that until now has largely remained unwritten. With nearly 150 black-and-white photographs, 16 pages of color illustrations, plus original artwork by Daniel P. Metz, Prairie Ghost: Pronghorn and Human Interaction in Early America tells the intriguing story of humans and these elusive big game mammals in an informative and entertaining fashion that will appeal to historians, biologists, sportsmen and the general reader alike.

A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought, Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's World has fired the imagination of readers all over the world, with more than twenty million copies in print. One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, with one question on each: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" From that irresistible beginning, Sophie becomes obsessed with questions that take her far beyond what she knows of her Norwegian village. Through those letters, she enrolls in a kind of correspondence course, covering Socrates to Sartre, with a mysterious philosopher, while receiving letters addressed to another girl. Who is Hilde? And why does her mail keep turning up? To unravel this riddle, Sophie must use the philosophy she is learning—but the truth turns out to be far more complicated than she could have imagined.

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