Abstract
1. Subject and sourceThe pronghorn, Antilocapra americana, is the sole living member of the familyAntilocapridae, a family consisting of living and extinct pronghorns and the extinctmerycodonts. These large ungulate herbivores have many different skin glands(Kitchen and O’Gara, 1982). Males and females have a gland on each rump (ischiadicglands) and interdigital glands in all hooves. In addition, males have subauricularglands below each ear and a single median gland on the back. This study investigatedvolatile compounds from the rump glands of five, free ranging, adult, male prong-horn. Samples were collected on 22 and 23 August 1998 in Modoc Co., CA.2. Previous workInterdigital glands (Wood, 2001); subauricular glands (Mu¨ller-Schwarze et al.,1974).
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