Am I correct in thinking aoudads aren't even native? Although some ranches here have them.bobcat wrote: ↑October 15th, 2021, 7:05 pmGreat shot! Photographers can take as many pics as they want; hunters get one tag per lifetime. Just to be clear to those who may not immediately recognize it, the ram is a California bighorn, not an aoudad. Bighorn sheep are native but became extinct in Oregon; successful reintroduction efforts began in the 1950s.
Different wildlife
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"When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe." - John Muir
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Yes. See the 'splaining post just before cfm's bighorn pic.
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Ooops missed it.
"When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe." - John Muir
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Ha. I never thought I'd see a Barbary sheep (aoudad) in a wild area in the U.S., but at Carlsbad Caverns National Park in New Mexico, a ewe and her lamb trotted across the road right in front of us. Apparently, they are considered an invasive species in both Texas and New Mexico and are culled via hunting permit. (They are native to the mountains of North Africa.)