In 1979, according to the Texas-based Exotic Wildlife Association, there were 32 scimitar-horned oryx in a captive breeding program in Texas; today there are more than 11,000.

Exotic animals in Texas are monetized in several ways: for breeding and sale domestically, ... Wildebeest, gemsbok antelope and other ‘exotic’ animals. February 25, 2021.

Introduced to the King Ranch in South Texas in the late 1920s and early 1930s, the nilgai were the first exotics released in Texas. This enormous antelope inhabits dry, flat or rolling country ...

Three people were arrested in what Texas authorities called a “sophisticated scheme” of illegal hunts for an exotic species of antelope. Texas game wardens arrested a local hunting outfitter ...

A herd of kudu, an African antelope species, observe visitors to the Cedar Hollow Ranch near Leakey, Texas. More than 13 exotic species are on the ranch, some of them endangered.

The scimitar-horned oryx was listed as endangered seven years ago, but a special exemption from the federal Endangered Species Act allowed breeders of the rare African antelope to nonetheless sell ...

For 10 days in October 2018, a line of storms pounded the Texas Hill Country. Brown currents rose over a bridge on the ranch, spilling out over the roads and gullies of this 14,000-acre property ...

SAN ANTONIO - The nilgai, a once-exotic antelope imported from Asia for zoos and let loose for trophy hunts on Texas ranches, are now being blamed for spreading the potentially devastating cattle ...

Texas Parks and Wildlife Department staff have dinner with hunters inside the hunting lodge after an exotic hunt at the Mason Mountain Wildlife Management Area, Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025, in Mason ...

You can go to Africa for a safari trip, or you can spend a pretty penny on 3 Creeks Ranch in the Texas Hill Country, which has its own stock of exotic animals.

Three people were arrested in what Texas authorities called a “sophisticated scheme” of illegal hunts for an exotic species of antelope.. Texas game wardens arrested a local hunting outfitter ...