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Photos: Arizona Game and Fish releases pronghorns to wild
Forty-one pronghorns, commonly known as antelope, were released at two sites in the Sonoita-Patagonia area Wednesday — part of an effort to rebuild dwindling herds in Southeastern Arizona.
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A pronghorn, sporting a radio collar, waits for a few others to catch up after being one 24 antelope released by the Arizona Game and Fish Department near Elgin, Ariz. on Wednesday, January 15, 2014.
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One of 24 pronghorn antelopes hits the ground running after being released by the Arizona Game and Fish Department near Elgin, Ariz., on Wednesday, January 15, 2014.
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A handful of the 24 pronghorn antelope look around their new surroundings near Elgin, Ariz., after being released by the Arizona Game and Fish Department, Wednesday, January 15, 2014.
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Arizona Game and Fish officials this morning released 40 Pronghorn antelope in the Sonoita-Patagonia area to replenish herds there. The first release of 24 pronghorns was south of Elgin, another 16 were released on U.S. Forest Service land in the San Raphael Valley, the state agency said in a news release.
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Arizona Game and Fish officials this morning released 40 Pronghorn antelope in the Sonoita-Patagonia area to replenish herds there.
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A pronghorn antelope turns back to the crowd and trailer after being one of 24 released by the Arizona Game and Fish Department, Wednesday, January 15, 2014, just south of Elgin, Ariz. Photo by Kelly Presnell / Arizona Daily Star
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One of the antelope takes long look before jumping out of a holding box during the release of 24 pronghorn by the Arizona Game and Fish Department, Wednesday, January 15, 2014, Elgin, Ariz. Photo by Kelly Presnell / Arizona Daily Star
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One of the pronghorn antelope plunges out to the holding box, one 24 imported from New Mexico by the Arizona Game and Fish Department, Wednesday, January 15, 2014, Elgin, Ariz. Another 16 were scheduled to be released in the San Raphael Valley later in the morning. The antelope are part of an exchange with the New Mexico Department of Game and Fish, captured near Cimarron, N.M., and traded for 60 Gould's turkeys. Photo by Kelly Presnell / Arizona Daily Star
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