#0219 · 🦊 mammals
Pronghorn
🇳🇱 Gaffelbok ·Antilocapra americana
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what is it?
The pronghorn ( /ˈprɒŋˌhɔːrn/) ( Antilocapra americana ) 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 , prairie 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.
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 27,166 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Weighs up to about 3.5 kg.
- Scientifically named by George Ord in 1815 (211 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Pronghorn
- Nederlands
- Gaffelbok
- scientific name
- Antilocapra americana
- class
- Mammalia
- order
- Artiodactyla
- family
- Antilocapridae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 27,166
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- 3.5 kg
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1815 by George Ord
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 42429, Wikidata Q187943, GBIF 2440902, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.