Abstract
Effective hand-raising protocols for neonatal ungulates should strive to produce animals that are physiologically similar to maternally raised conspecifics. Young pronghoms ( An-tilocapra americana ) were sucessfully bottle-raised on a formula of three parts evaporated milk and one part water for participation in physiological and behavioral research. Neonatal growth was assessed by monitoring changes in body weight, length of leg and, surface area of body. Body weights increased linearly with age to 16 weeks; growth rates (g/d) were not significantly different from those of maternally raised young. Lengths of leg, which affect the efficiency of locomotion and maximal running speed, and surface area of body, which affects heat exchange with the environment, increased with increasing body weight.
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