North American pronghorn are commonly encountered in Yellowstone National Park, but it’s rare to witness these elegant speedsters in a full sprint.
The accompanying footage, shared Tuesday by Yellowstone Wolf Tracker, shows a pronghorn fleeing a predatory wolf and shifting into high gear to easily end the chase.
The Wolf Tracker description reads, in part: "Little does this wolf know, pronghorn antelopes are North America’s fastest land mammal, reaching speeds of up to 60 miles per hour! To put that into perspective, wolves can run (on average) around 35 mph!"
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Globally, only cheetahs, which can attain speeds of 75 mph, are faster than North American pronghorn.
Yellowstone
is home to as many as 600 pronghorn, which are sometimes mistakenly referred to as antelope.
In the summer pronghorn are often spotted in the Lamar Valley – in habitat shared by wolves.
For wolves to catch a healthy adult pronghorn, however, it’d have to involve the element of surprise and/or the cooperation of a pack.
Wolves in Yellowstone prey largely on elk, deer, bison, and smaller mammals that they can catch.
Pronghorn typically form groups, which helps them detect and evade predators.
From the park’s website: "When one individual detects danger, it flares its white rump patch, signaling the others to flee."
This article originally appeared on For The Win: Yellowstone’s fastest land animal leaves wolf in dust during chase
