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Ep. 06: Survivors From A Lost World

Ep. 06: Survivors From A Lost World

Gunfighters vor 1 Jahr

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America’s pronghorn antelope has long struck observers as a
beautiful feature of western landscapes, but as an enigma. Why
does it run so fast? Why can’t it jump obstacles? And for those
who really know its biography, why did its population fall from
15 million to a mere 5,000 over the course of a single century?
This episode answers all those questions by arguing that the
pronghorn is an American original who, like us, is the sole
remaining member of a large, ancient family of animals. And that
it seems enigmatic only because it is one of the few survivors of
America’s Pleistocene extinctions, with behaviors strongly shaped
by the vanished world to which it evolved.

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