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a deer that took sprinting lessons from the wind and never looked back
means a swift, slender-legged hoofed mammal of Africa and Asia, known for graceful bounding and lightning-fast escapes from predators
from From medieval legend before it was zoology: the word came through Old French and Latin from a Greek term 'antholops,' which described a fierce, fantastical horned beast said to live by the Euphrates — the name's literal pieces are murky, possibly 'flower-eye' or something similarly poetic. For centuries 'antelope' meant a mythical creature in bestiaries before naturalists borrowed the name and pinned it onto the very real, very fast animals we know today.
- top speed
- pronghorn hits 55 mph, second fastest land animal
- overbuilt
- can outrun predators that went extinct ages ago
- not a deer
- closer to goats and cattle than to deer
- eye game
- 320-degree vision spots threats almost everywhere
- leap genius
- some clear 10 feet up, 30 feet across
pronghorn — north american antelope that can run 60 mph, found in western united states
impala — east african antelope with lyre-shaped horns, found across tanzania and kenya savannas
springbok — southern african antelope famous for pronking behavior, national animal of south africa
wildebeest gnu — african antelope that migrates 1.5 million strong across serengeti and masai mara annually