When Cheyenne resident Warren Burgess was looking around the F.E. Warren Base Exchange store Monday, he did a double take when he saw the silhouette of an African antelope on T-shirt commemorating the Wyoming air force base.<\/p>\n
Turns out, it was simple miscommunication between the store\u2019s staff and a shirt-maker when the store put in an order for roughly 50 shirts with an \u201cantelope\u201d on them.<\/p>\n
The staff was thinking of Wyoming\u2019s pronghorn, while the manufacturer apparently thought they meant the African species and put the silhouette of an antelope known as a greater kudu, which isn\u2019t found in Wyoming. The kudu has a hump on its back and long, curly horns.<\/p>\n
Critter Mix-Up<\/p>\n
Pronghorn frequent the Francis E. Warren Air Force Base in Cheyenne. Folks in Wyoming and elsewhere in the West commonly call those critters \u201cantelope.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
The store\u2019s staff thought that was a universally understood term, but apparently it\u2019s not.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The shirts were delivered last fall, Jolyne Rhodes, a manager at the base exchange, told Cowboy State Daily on Thursday.<\/p>\n
\u201cAfter I ordered and we got them, I realized it was wrong, and we were stuck with them,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
A similar batch of T-shirts, calling for an image of a bison, came in as ordered.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s what kind of caught my eye,\u201d Burgess told Cowboy State Daily. \u201cThe bison looks like a bison. The \u2018antelope,\u2019 I thought that might have been a mistake.\u201d<\/p>\n
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T-shirts ordered for the F.E. Warren Base Exchange store in Cheyenne accurately depict a bison. But an order of shirts calling for \u201cantelope\u201d came back with a silhouette of an African greater kudu antelope, not a Wyoming pronghorn. (Courtesy Warren Burgess)\u201cAntelope\u201d Aren\u2019t Really Antelope<\/p>\n
In the West, \u201cantelope\u201d is common term from pronghorn. They\u2019re also colloquially called \u201cspeed goats.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
They\u2019re not actually antelope or goats \u2014 or anything else that\u2019s currently living.\u00a0<\/p>\n