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Who's making snowmen out here?
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Many years ago we went on a vacation to Montana. Several times we would see cattle standing at a fence, and a small herd of antelope run up behind and through the herd of cattle, and jump the fence and keep going. It kinda looked like the antelope were rubbing it in to the cattle at that point.
 
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Every pronghorn antelope that I've ever seen cross a fence, crawled under it. I've never seen them jump a fence. I've watched them go back and forth, along a fence, over and over again, until they find that spot to crawl under it.
 
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EddieWalker said:
Every pronghorn antelope that I've ever seen cross a fence, crawled under it. I've never seen them jump a fence. I've watched them go back and forth, along a fence, over and over again, until they find that spot to crawl under it.
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That's interesting. I see a bunch of videos where they're doing like you said, trying to go under the fences.

Then there are a bunch of others asking if Pronghorns can jump fences.

And a bunch of comments that they can't jump fences.

And then we have this, with probably better than a thousand jumping two fences.


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So, apparently, yes, they can jump fences quite well. Seems they prefer to go under in some areas.

I just know what we saw. ;)
 
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MossRoad said:
That's interesting. I see a bunch of videos where they're doing like you said, trying to go under the fences.

Then there are a bunch of others asking if Pronghorns can jump fences.

And a bunch of comments that they can't jump fences.

And then we have this, with probably better than a thousand jumping two fences.


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So, apparently, yes, they can jump fences quite well. Seems they prefer to go under in some areas.

I just know what we saw. ;)
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Its likely a survival thing. Seems that crawling under one would be less prone to harm than jumping over fences. I've seen skeletons of them that got hung up on a fence they were jumping over.
 
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ArlyA said:
Its likely a survival thing. Seems that crawling under one would be less prone to harm than jumping over fences. I've seen skeletons of them that got hung up on a fence they were jumping over.
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From what I've read over the past hour, they just don't like to jump. Neither do I. :ROFLMAO:
 
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It's not the jumping I don't like. It's the hitting things and falling down that bothers me :)

The Delaware from Lambertville-New Hope Bridge looking north. PA on left, NJ on right.
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kenmbz said:
It's not the jumping I don't like. It's the hitting things and falling down that bothers me :)

The Delaware from Lambertville-New Hope Bridge looking north. PA on left, NJ on right.
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You're correct. I actually like the feeling of falling. Weeeee! It's the landing that I could do without.
 
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