{"id":52092,"date":"2017-10-01T05:02:41","date_gmt":"2017-10-01T11:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=52092"},"modified":"2017-10-01T11:25:58","modified_gmt":"2017-10-01T17:25:58","slug":"remembering-old-curlicue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/01\/remembering-old-curlicue\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Old Curlicue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It’s been several years since I’ve seen him and I miss having him around.<\/p>\n<p>Occasionally I go back in my archives and review images I’ve taken this time of year in\u00a0past years\u00a0to see what\u00a0birds and wildlife I\u00a0might expect to see now and where I might\u00a0find them. I did that last night and ran\u00a0into an old friend.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"52094\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/01\/remembering-old-curlicue\/pronghorn-2192-ron-dudley\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/pronghorn-2192-ron-dudley.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"900,643\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{"aperture":"7.1","credit":"RON DUDLEY","camera":"Canon EOS 7D","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1349081063","copyright":"","focal_length":"320","iso":"500","shutter_speed":"0.0004","title":"","orientation":"1"}\" data-image-title=\"pronghorn 2192 ron dudley\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/pronghorn-2192-ron-dudley-300x214.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/pronghorn-2192-ron-dudley.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-52094 size-full\" title=\"pronghorn-2192-ron-dudley\" src=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/pronghorn-2192-ron-dudley.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"643\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/pronghorn-2192-ron-dudley.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/pronghorn-2192-ron-dudley-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/pronghorn-2192-ron-dudley-768x549.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/pronghorn-2192-ron-dudley-150x107.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/pronghorn-2192-ron-dudley-400x286.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is a male pronghorn with obviously deformed horns. I’d see him occasionally on\u00a0Antelope Island for quite a few years beginning back in 2010\u00a0but it’s been at least two years now\u00a0since I’ve\u00a0spotted him and I doubt he’s still with us. I’ve noticed a few pronghorns with slightly deformed horns (mostly in Montana when I was a kid) but in my experience the horn\u00a0anomalies of this one are extreme.\u00a0The second time I saw this guy I called him Curlicue and for some reason that name stuck over the years.<\/p>\n<p>Both of these photos were taken exactly 5 years ago today, on October 1, 2012, and this was the closest I was ever able to get to him.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"52105\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/01\/remembering-old-curlicue\/pronghorn-2170b-ron-dudley\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/pronghorn-2170b-ron-dudley.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"900,720\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{"aperture":"7.1","credit":"RON DUDLEY","camera":"Canon EOS 7D","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1349080873","copyright":"","focal_length":"400","iso":"500","shutter_speed":"0.0004","title":"","orientation":"1"}\" data-image-title=\"pronghorn 2170b ron dudley\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/pronghorn-2170b-ron-dudley-300x240.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/pronghorn-2170b-ron-dudley.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-52105 size-full\" title=\"pronghorn-2170b-ron-dudley\" src=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/pronghorn-2170b-ron-dudley.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/pronghorn-2170b-ron-dudley.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/pronghorn-2170b-ron-dudley-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/pronghorn-2170b-ron-dudley-768x614.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/pronghorn-2170b-ron-dudley-150x120.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/pronghorn-2170b-ron-dudley-400x320.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You have to view these horns from more than one angle to fully appreciate\u00a0how\u00a0screwed up they are. Their shapes aren’t uniform and neither one\u00a0is even close to normal. The right horn obstructs its vision and the left one appears to have a small palmate-shaped\u00a0region similar to what we find in moose antlers.<\/p>\n<p>As bizarre as this fellow looks with his atypical horns to go along with his sunflower bonnet he seemed to do just fine for many years. His behavior always seemed normal and the herd had obviously accepted him.\u00a0I’d seen him\u00a0over a period of about 4-5\u00a0years and their average life span is about 10 years so perhaps he lived out a normal healthy life on the island.<\/p>\n<p>I hope he did but I sure miss seeing him once in a while. Those sightings would always save my day even\u00a0when I’d been bird-skunked.<\/p>\n<p>Ron<\/p>\n<p><em>PS – If any of my local readers have seen him in the last couple of years I’d love to hear about it…<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Late Addendum: In the comments below there’s been significant interest in the differences between horns and antlers so it’s my\u00a0intention to cover that topic tomorrow.<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It’s been several years since I’ve seen him and I miss having him around.<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/01\/remembering-old-curlicue\/\"><span>Continue reading<\/span><i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52093,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,334,373],"tags":[31,507,3587,203,211,258,311],"class_list":["post-52092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-antelope-island","category-birds","category-pronghorns","tag-antelope-island-2","tag-buck","tag-deformed-horn","tag-life-span","tag-male","tag-pronghorn","tag-utah-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/pronghorn-2170-ron-dudley.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1zzJh-dyc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}