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Message: <blockquote data-quote="dean nelson" data-source="post: 224455" data-attributes="member: 1305">The point of antelope having trouble with fences is not even remotely up for debate! your tiny little anecdotal evidence is not even remotely close to over ruling the huge scientific studies that have been done on them. Here are just a couple Snippets from GPS studies the first ones North Dakota the second one is Montana."One preliminary finding is that pronghorn movement and migration is limited by highways and fences. Continued research will help biologists determine to what extent these obstacles prevent pronghorn movement. “What we’ve seen so far is that Interstate 94 appears to be a major barrier to winter pronghorn movements,” Stillings said""[FONT=&quot]Throughout the northern Great Plains, fencing has long vexed a prairie mammal that evolved to negotiate barriers no taller than a sagebrush. Though pronghorn can jump wire fences, they do so reluctantly, preferring to crawl under. But they often get snagged on the bottom barbs, or can’t slip under when snow is more than a foot deep. Most impenetrable are woven wire “sheep fences,” which extend to the ground. During fall and spring migrations, pronghorn squander precious energy wandering up and down fence lines in search of a way through. In some cases, Jakes found that his research pronghorn spent hours trying to get past a single fence. “Just think how much time and energy those animals have to spend negotiating 30 or 40 fences in the middle of winter during a migration,” he says"[/FONT]</blockquote>

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