Tetrameryx shuleri (SciiFii)

The pike-horned pronghorn (Tetrameryx shuleri), also incorrectly called the pike-horned antelope, is a species of the North American artiodactyl family Antilocapridae, known from Mexico, the western United States, and Saskatchewan. The pike-horned pronghorn was once extinct since the Late Pleistocene, but has since been brought back from extinction by SciiFii and reintroduced throughout the forests, open woodlands, grasslands, and shrublands across North America to help boost biodiversity. The pike-horned pronghorn is known for the division of each of its horn near its base into two prongs; the rear prong is much longer than the front prong, hence its name. Averaging in weight between 120-150 pounds, the pike-horned pronghorn reaches a similar size as the common pronghorn (Antilocapra americanum). However, the pike-horned pronghorn differs from the common pronghorn on account of their different horn-array and coloration. The pike-horned pronghorn's closest relative are the much-larger scrub-stag (Tetrameryx tacubayensis) and the spearbuck (Tetrameryx mooseri). Both of the larger species share the same horn array as the pike-horned pronghorn. Being a grazer, the pike-horned pronghorn prefers to feed on sedges, forbs, and grasses. These pronghorns travel in groups, sometimes in herds numbering into the thousands. They will travel and feed alongside other ungulates and herbivores such as buffalo, fork-oxen, horses, camelids, mammoths, fork-horn buck, capybara, elk, cattle, peccaries, deer, and other peaceful herbivores. When the rut begins, the males form harems of females and battle amongst themselves for access to them. Calving season begins in early spring, when the mothers bear one or two calves. Within an hour of being born, the pike-horned pronghorn calf can run with the rest of the herd. Calves leave their mothers side at the age of 1 year. A pike-horned pronghorn can live to be as old as 18 years in the wild. The conservation status of the pike-horned pronghorn is Least Concern due to successful conservation efforts, the pike-horned pronghorn's wide natural range and its tolerance to most of the human activities.
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