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EXOTICS IN TEXAS

EXOTICS IN TEXAS by: Max Traweek and Roy Welch April 1992 TEXAS Parks and Wildlife Department Reproduced From PWD-BK-W7000-206 5/92 What is an Exotic? The term exotic refers to medium to large sized nonindigenous or non-native mammals and birds that landowners have introduced onto TEXAS ranches and properties in either a confined or free-ranging status. Most of the common species of exotic mammal currently found on TEXAS ranches fall under one of the following three major scientific families: Cervidae (deer), Bovidae (cattle and antelope) and Equidae (horses and zebras). Exotic birds most likely to be encountered on TEXAS ranches are the large, flightless species classified as Ratites (the ostrich from Africa, emu from Australia and rhea from South America). How long have EXOTICS been roaming TEXAS ranches? The first release of EXOTICS onto TEXAS ranches occurred in 1930, when a group of nilgai antelope was released on the King Ranch in South TEXAS .

whitetail. The studies also showed that the exotic species had the ability to shift their diets to grasses when the preferred forbs and browse became unavailable - an important survival trait that the native whitetails do not share. The dietary preference for forbs and browse exhibited by the more common exotic species also

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