Born in the USA: The wider industry impact

● The lovely pronghorn , bearing 10-inch curved horns, is the fastest land mammal in America , running at 88.5 km/hour. Blessed with beautiful large eyes and a 320° field of vision , the pronghorn leaves nothing to chance — when wary, it displays a white warning patch on its rump that can be seen for miles Found west of the great Mississippi river , the pronghorn is a species of even-toed, hoofed mammal. Though not an antelope, it is colloquially called ‘the American antelope’ .

● The tremendous American bald eagle — its wingspan is 7 feet — is the US national symbol . Inhabiting Alaska, it lives near water bodies with abundant fish and old-growth trees where it builds mindboggling 13-feet-deep nests . Strategic — it often snatches fish caught by ospreys — it faced extinction when Rachel Carson in 1973 highlighted DDT’s dangers to ecology . Once this was banned, populations recovered — the eagle indeed landed ● The little American green tree frog — 2 inches in length — lives in open canopy forests, on the banks of lakes and marsh edges.

It is not actually ‘bald’, its name describing its white head. These adaptable amphibians are found across the diverse climates of the Gulf Coast to New England and while called ‘green’, they could be olive, brown or gray . This shy, mysterious frog often has a white-yellow stripe extending down its side and tiny gold specks on its back, its smooth skin changing colour as temperatures and light alter Research: National Geographic, Encylopaedia Britannica, BBC, National Wildlife Federation Catch the latest world news and top headlines. Download the TOI App.