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|u/compuwiza1 - 10 hours
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|Do the deer and the antelopes play?
|u/Bigred2989- - 10 hours
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|With seldom a discouraging word.
|u/invol713 - 8 hours
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|Where often is heard many 4-letter words, as the deer cause car
|crashes each day. -Life in the Rockies
|u/bigfatfurrytexan - 2 hours
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|Fwiw, that song was about pronghorn I believe
|u/Thin-Rip-3686 - 9 hours
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|Have eaten oryx from the White Sands reservation. Permits are highly
|sought after. To those who have had it, there is not a better meat.
|u/dabigchina - 7 hours
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|Had it in Africa. It is much tastier than most game I've had. That
|being said, I still prefer beef.
|u/TheMadhopper - 10 hours
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|Theres a big hunting industry around them. You can see them sometimes
|from the highway when your driving around
|u/Bigred2989- - 10 hours
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|The state released them to give game hunters something to shoot without
|having to pay for a trip to Africa. Ranchers in Texas were doing the
|same thing for awhile and even sending a ton of surplus animals to
|Africa where their numbers were dwindling. I think they stopped when an
|animal rights group got the Federal government to forbid the practice of
|breeding Oryx for sport hunting, and the ranchers culled all their
|herds.
|u/AwfulUsername123 - 10 hours
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|That didn't happen. Despite criticism, Texan ranches still have
|thousands of oryx and still make money charging people to hunt them.
|u/gwaydms - 8 hours
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|But introduced game animals that have escaped the high-fence ranches
|are fair game, so to speak, as long as you have a hunting license.
|There are a lot of oryx, nilgai, and especially axis deer in the
|Texas Hill Country. They're bad for the native ecosystem, and
|they're good eating.
|u/bmccrobie - 7 hours
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|Axis deer up the ass, as my uncle would say.
|u/IFLCivicEngagement - 2 hours
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|It depends on what you mean by "fair game." A lot of them are on
|permitted hunting land controlled by the state. To hunt these
|areas you have to win a lottery. My understanding with Nilgai at
|least, is that once you get drawn in, you have no bag limit, but
|you must be drawn in to be there.
|u/Bigred2989- - 10 hours
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|Wasn't aware. I remembered a couple of 60 Minutes reports about the
|topic and the culling was the last thing I heard. I guess they were
|just threatening to do it.
|u/SugarNervous - 10 hours
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|Fauna pollution.
|u/ACorania - 51 minutes
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|I was weirded out the first time I saw them out here.
|u/MasterpieceNo8893 - 10 hours
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|TIL too! Fascinating!
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