A microwave oven doesnât heat up your kitchen as much as a conventional oven, reducing the load on your air conditioner. Of course, this factor only matters during the summer. If you can fit the food you are cooking into a countertop toaster oven, cooking it there will use less energy than a conventional electric oven.
Sonoran Pronghorn. Multimedia Gallery. A geographically and genetically distinct sub-species of pronghorn, the Sonoran pronghorn is smaller and lighter in color and is adapted for survival in desert conditions. The males weigh up to 130 lbs. and females up to 110 lbs.
Genus: Antilocapra. Click on the images for a larger view. The pronghorn is a unique North American mammal. Its Latin name, Antilocapra americana, means American goat-antelope, but it is not a member of the goat or the antelope family and it is not related to the antelopes found in Africa. The pronghorn is the only surviving member of the Antilocapridae family and it has been in North America for over a million years!