American Pronghorn – Social Adaptions & the Ghosts of Predators Past (Paper): Social Adaptations and the Ghosts of Predators Past

I bought this book after visiting Yellowstone this fall and enjoying the pronghorn in Lamar Valley.Byers presents so much fascinating information in great detail about pronghorn. Maybe he hasmore details than some readers would want but I could hardly put it down once I started reading.I didn't spend much time on the many charts and graphs but they are there for those with thescientific interest in these. Female pronghorn really face serious challenges when raising their fawnsand must be very smart to outwit the coyotes and eagles, which Byers describes so well. My bigdisappointment in the book was that he only focused on the pronghorn on the National Bison Rangein his study which is very unnatural. It is entirely fenced and has no wolves. I hope he, or someoneas dedicated as he is, will now do similar studies of the pronghorn in Yellowstone or a similar naturalsetting with wolves. It's hard not to agree with Byers that the male pronghorn, bucks, could do a lotmore to help the species survive instead of leaving it all up to the does.