Between Leakey and Junction. Naturalized population. Allegedly the Blackbuck is more numerous in Texas than in India. These animals certainly behaved as wild animals and not livestock or captive specimens.
Between Leakey and Junction. Naturalized population. Allegedly the Blackbuck is more numerous in Texas than in India. These animals certainly behaved as wild animals and not livestock or captive specimens.
True. I believe the state did a census of exotics in the late
1980's. I think since then the Axis Deer and the Aoudad have probably become more common; Sika, Fallow, and Blackbuck less common and Feral Hogs much more common. Of course I have absolutely no data to back that up.
They do. Outside of those animals found on public property (something rarer than free ranging Bison in today's Texas) the management of these animals fall to the landowner. A better term than wild or free-ranging might be low-husbandry...putting them on par with most native Pronghorn, Deer, and Javelina populations in Texas. Although the native wildlife receives state protection/management and is (theoretically at least) considered a public resource.
They do. Outside of those animals found on public property (something rarer than free ranging Bison in today's Texas) the management of these animals fall to the landowner. A better term than wild or free-ranging might be low-husbandry...putting them on par with most native Pronghorn, Deer, and Javelina populations in Texas. Although the native wildlife receives state protection/management and is (theoretically at least) considered a public resource.
There is a legend (have no clue of its validity) about some wild snow monkeys that have been wild for decades, after escaping from a lab and reproducing. There are green iguanas in the Rio Grande Valley area.
