Mexican pronghorn

The Mexican pronghorn, Antilocapra americana mexicana, is a subspecies of pronghorn found in Mexico and the United States. It is the second of five pronghorn subspecies to be described, named by Clinton Hart Merriam in 1901. It once ranged from Hidalgo and the State of Mexico north to the southwestern United States and west Texas, but it has been lost from most of that range. Today it lives mainly in desert grasslands, with most of its remaining habitat in the Chihuahuan Desert of northern Mexico, and small populations in New Mexico and Brewster County, Texas. In Coahuila it was found to browse mainly on forbs. The subspecies is endangered, threatened by illegal hunting, overgrazing and habitat loss, and reintroduction work in Mexico has focused on restoring forage plants, providing clean water, limiting livestock grazing and fencing, and temporarily banning hunting. The Mexican name berrendo comes from a loan word that refers to a spotted coat.