- Title Pages
- Organisms and Environments
- Dedication
- Foreword
- Preface
-
Part one Relationships, Relationships -
Chapter 1 Bull to Bull and Cow to Bull -
Chapter 2 Cow to Cow -
Chapter 3 Cow to Calf -
Part Two The Machinery of a Bison’s Life -
Chapter 4 Bison Athletics -
Chapter 5 Digestion -
Chapter 6 Temperature Control -
Part Three Whence they Came Forth, and how Much they Multiplied -
Chapter 7 Ancestors and Relatives -
Chapter 8 How Many? -
Part Four The Bison’s Neighborhood -
Chapter 9 The Central Grassland -
PART FIVE The Bison’s Neighbors -
Chapter 10 Wolves and Bison -
Chapter 11 Buffalo Birds -
Chapter 12 Diseases and Parasites -
Chapter 13 Pronghorn -
Chapter 14 Prairie Dogs -
Chapter 15 Badgers -
Chapter 16 Coyotes -
Chapter 17 Grizzlies -
Chapter 18 Ferrets -
Part Six Human and Buffalo -
Chapter 19 Close Encounters of the Buffalo Kind -
Chapter 20 To Kill a Bison -
Chapter 21 Bison Numbers before the Great Slaughter -
Chapter 22 Where have all the Bison Gone? -
Chapter 23 Attitudes -
Chapter 24 Conservation -
Chapter 25 A Great Plains Park - Bibliography
- Index
Pronghorn
Pronghorn
- Chapter:
- (p.120) Chapter 13 Pronghorn
- Source:
- American Bison
- Author(s):
Dale F. Lott
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
A pronghorn is picky — and has to be. Small bodies need less food, but they also need better food: more protein, fewer carbohydrates, less lignin. The pronghorns' perspective on forbs makes their relationship to a grassland very different from the bison's. For the bison, it's just grass going on forever, but for the pronghorn there are patches of forbs growing among the grasses. Pronghorn territoriality on the National Bison Range seems to have died a demographic death in 1978–79. But in most species in most situations, the abundance and distribution of food are crucial determinants of territoriality.
Keywords: pronghorn, bison, grassland, forb, pronghorn territoriality, National Bison Range
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- Title Pages
- Organisms and Environments
- Dedication
- Foreword
- Preface
-
Part one Relationships, Relationships -
Chapter 1 Bull to Bull and Cow to Bull -
Chapter 2 Cow to Cow -
Chapter 3 Cow to Calf -
Part Two The Machinery of a Bison’s Life -
Chapter 4 Bison Athletics -
Chapter 5 Digestion -
Chapter 6 Temperature Control -
Part Three Whence they Came Forth, and how Much they Multiplied -
Chapter 7 Ancestors and Relatives -
Chapter 8 How Many? -
Part Four The Bison’s Neighborhood -
Chapter 9 The Central Grassland -
PART FIVE The Bison’s Neighbors -
Chapter 10 Wolves and Bison -
Chapter 11 Buffalo Birds -
Chapter 12 Diseases and Parasites -
Chapter 13 Pronghorn -
Chapter 14 Prairie Dogs -
Chapter 15 Badgers -
Chapter 16 Coyotes -
Chapter 17 Grizzlies -
Chapter 18 Ferrets -
Part Six Human and Buffalo -
Chapter 19 Close Encounters of the Buffalo Kind -
Chapter 20 To Kill a Bison -
Chapter 21 Bison Numbers before the Great Slaughter -
Chapter 22 Where have all the Bison Gone? -
Chapter 23 Attitudes -
Chapter 24 Conservation -
Chapter 25 A Great Plains Park - Bibliography
- Index
