typhlonectes:Rare Sonoran Pronghorn are Rebounding If sound had color, what fills your ears on a Son
typhlonectes:Rare Sonoran Pronghorn are Rebounding If sound had color, what fills your ears on a Sonoran summer day would be a matte monochrome. The flat nasally shrill of insects that go sight unseen rises to a crescendo and falls away to a lull, like water swelling and falling in a slow rhythm lapping on a sandy shoal.It’s sandy here to be sure. But there’s little natural water. It’s locked up in the pulp of cactus or the waxy leaves of sparse green plants. Some of that plant matter is food for the Sonoran pronghorn, an endangered species that’s found nowhere else in the world than in the far southwest corner of Arizona and northern Sonora, Mexico.The core of what is left of the rare mammal is centered on Cabeza Prieta and Kofa national wildlife refuges. But the animal with a habit to move around in small caravans ranges widely onto other federal public lands: the Barry M. Goldwater Range, Organ Pipe National Monument and Yuma Proving Grounds. The pronghorn exists on the Tohono O’odham Nation as well. Two additional populations persist in Sonora, Mexico…(Read more: The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) -- source link