Sambar at West Midland Safari Park, 13 February 2010

zoogiraffe said:

I remember seeing both of those species before the sudden influx of new Asian species from PL and Howlets.

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I've always been curious about where West Mids' various Asian ungulate species originated from. In that case possibly the Nilgai and Blackbuck came from Howletts at an earlier stage, or maybe from Whipsnade/ZSL? Can't really think of another obvious source at least in UK (Edinburgh/Dublin?).