Several years ago, as we watched a small herd of mama antelope with their babies playing in our back pasture, I had a friend pensively ask why she no longer had antelope at her place. They have 40 acres SE of Denver and used to see them all the time. I asked if more fences had gone in around her. She said yes, but she still got plenty of deer. She wondered why the antelope disappeared. I told her that it’s the fencing.
Antelope are not prone to jumping like deer do. Will they jump? Yes. Will they choose to move out of an area if their only option for migration and daily movement is to jump fences? YES. Continue reading “Where have all the antelope gone?”