Wyoming Wildlife

Antilocapra americana
- endemic to interior western and central North America
- not an antelope, pronghorn
- only surviving member of the family Antilocapridae

- males are further differentiated from females in that males will have a small patch of black hair at the angle of the mandible.
- is generally accepted to be the fastest land mammal in the Western Hemisphere

Male @ stream terrace along the Blacks Fork River, Wyoming


Bison bison
- American buffalo
- Plain bison (Bison bison bison) are smaller in size and with a more rounded hump. Wood bison (Bison bison athabascae) are larger and have a taller, square hump.

Bison bison bison @ Yellowstone


Cervus canadensis @ Yellowstone