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13,000 years ago, the ice age cheetah was the pronghorn's greatest enemy. And pronghorn would have needed all their amazing speed. The American cheetah was larger than its African cousin. But it had the same Achilles' heel. A cheetah's high-performan

发表于:2018-12-27 / 阅读(34) / 评论(0) 分类 探索与发现2012年

Every fall, this herd of pronghorn antelope treks more than 100 miles from Grand Teton National Park to their winter habitat in the Upper Green River Valley of Wyoming. This phenomenal migration, one of the longest in North America, has been taking p

发表于:2019-01-22 / 阅读(43) / 评论(0) 分类 自然百科2009年

By now the pronghorn have pushed further than any of Yellowstones animals, out of forests, through farmland and down into the wide prairies at the foot of the Rocky Mountains themselves. Their search for winter grazing takes them over a hundred miles

发表于:2019-01-22 / 阅读(31) / 评论(0) 分类 自然百科2012年

The Osage orange seeds were carried far across the plains, before being deposited, pre-packed in their fertilizer growbags, ready to take root. As the ice age waned, the milder climate and the mixed vegetation meant the plains were able to support a

发表于:2019-01-23 / 阅读(55) / 评论(0) 分类 探索与发现2012年

A lone wolf weighs as much as four coyotes, but one on one it's still no match for a bison. Wolves, though, live and hunt in packs of up to 15 and when they launch a cooperative attack, they're devastating. First they get the bison on the run, then f

发表于:2019-01-23 / 阅读(59) / 评论(0) 分类 探索与发现2012年

Highway Crossings Protect Migrating Pronghorns--and Motorists Ever hear of the pronghorn antelope in the American west? Well, its not really an antelopeits actually more closely related to giraffes than to true antelopes. And the last known migration

发表于:2019-02-03 / 阅读(29) / 评论(0) 分类 2018年科学美国人10月
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adenocarcinoma of seminal vesicle
aggregate turnover of advanced capital
aggressivenesses
algorithm routine
Apostolie Fathers
appleyards
available voltage amplification
Baghlān, Daryā-ye
balisage
beam pumping unit
beleses formosana
Bernardines
binzel
Bisconray
brain spa
cable tank
celery looper
chamerrhine
Chinese chive seed
Cochlearia
collision risk
commodity export
congenital nonspherocytic hemolytic anemia
corslets
crystally
cycas circinaliss
deaspirating
decatoic acid
detrital clay
economy of shortage
endogenous rickets
engineering type of mind
environmental teratogen
exhaustive on
feedwater
fisher and porter raingauge
fission fragment detection
frequency recovery
gas emission
gentillye
heltograph
hematogenic calculus
horn button relay
hydrolyzate elements
imidazolidinyl
incendiary mixture
insular shelf(platform)
ladder polyether
levy en masse
logsualization
longitudinal scan
low-definition television
major task segment
malthusian dilemma
mark-sweep garbage collection
method of lattice
methylcerosol
Mezhyrich
minxy
Miserey-Salines
mythologeme
Neunkirch
neutron irradiated
new world anteaters
nuclei taeniaeformis
partial migration
peculiarised
periodate cleavage
phenogenesis (fischer 1939)
platygyra pini
plunger split ring
podensacs
position indicating grid
posterior sacroiliac ligament
public overhead capital
rackin
radion determination-satellite service
register of pending actions
report heading group presentation rule
resin viscosity model
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seal engraving
selenonic acid
self-exalting
sicyonia inflexa
spanned
sphygmotachograph
spice trade
spiraxid
Srebrodolskite
talc plaques
trousse
truck with elevatable operation position
undisturbed strata
ungainful
uniforums
us -run
vacciolous
vapo(u)r heated
Vejrum
vincantril
visual novel