Southwest’s long-running drought altering wildlife behavior
You don’t forget pronghorn antelope. These Western icons with their black horns and white rumps are blazingly fast — the fastest land mammal in the Western Hemisphere — and they show off that speed when they spot you, reaching 55 mph in an eyeblink if they need to. But even they are not expected to be fast enough to outrun climate change and drought in the Southwest. By the end of the century, half of the pronghorn populations in the region are expected to be gone, say federal researchers.
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