Pronghorn Hybrids

Family Antilocapridae

Mammalian Hybrids

EUGENE M. MCCARTHY, PHD GENETICS, ΦΒΚ
Pronghorn Pronghorn
Antilocapra americana

Note:Pronghorns are often called American antelope, pronghorn antelope, prairie antelope, or simply antelope

Antilocapra americana [Pronghorn]
× Oreamnos americanus [Mountain Goat] A notice about an animal that may have been a hybrid of this kind appeared in the Indianapolis, Indiana, News (Dec. 29, 1873, p. 2). It read as follows: “An animal of the deer species was shot in the woods and its carcass sold to a man in East Saginaw, Michigan, the like of which is unknown to any of the people thereabouts. The animal seemed to he a cross between a mountain sheep and an antelope. It was pure white with the exception of a few dark colored spots down its back, and the fore legs were some six inches shorter than the hind.” This cross, which would be interfamilial (Antilocapridae × Bovidae), and which does not seem to have been reported elsewhere, requires verification. Note also that Michigan, at the present day, is well outside the ranges of both the proposed parents.
× Ovis aries (♀) [Domestic Sheep] Two hybrids of this kind were reported as having been produced at Egon Canyon, Nevada, “crosses between common ewe sheep and the antelope.” The notice appeared in the Carson City, Nevada, Daily Appeal (Aug. 23, 1870, p. 2). Another report appeared in the Muncie, Indiana, Evening News (July. 1, 1932, p. 16, col. 4):

sheep-pronghorn hybrids
dog-cow hybrid A dog-cow hybrid?

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By the same author: Handbook of Avian Hybrids of the World, Oxford University Press (2006).


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