Alligator (El lagarto mississippiensis)
Native habitat: Primarily freshwater swamps and marshes, but also in rivers, lakes and smaller bodies of water in the southeastern United States: Alabama, Arkansas, North & South Carolina, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, and Texas. Alligator is derived from the Spanish el lagarto which means "The Lizard". More...

Axis deer (Cervus axix) Also called the Indian Deer, Spotted Deer, and the Chital Deer.
Native habitat: The lowlands plains and lower hills, where they can be found grazing among bushes, trees, or bamboo forest. Native to India. Introduced in to Texas in 1932. More...

Barasingha (Cervus duvauceli) Also called Swamp Deer.
Native Habitat: Dry and wet swampy grasslands of India. This deer is an endangered species surviving only in national parks 
of India, zoos, and wildlife parks. More...

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Blackbuck (Antilope cervicapra)
Native Habitat: Dry woodland and clearings in India and eastern Pakistan. They have been hunted to near extinction in India. Fortunately, herds have been introduced in Texas and Argentina with great success. More...

Canadian Wood Bison (Bison bison athabascae)
Native habitat: Primarily in northern Alberta and the adjacent parts of British Columbia, the Northwest Territories, and Saskatchewan. The wood bison is considered threatened as there are only about 3000 remaining in free roaming herds. More...
  

Common Eland (Taurotragus oryx) 
Native habitat: Found in eastern, central and southern Africa. Prefer plains or moderately rolling country with brush and scattered trees, sub-desert, savanna, woodlands, grasslands, and mountaintops up to 15,000 ft. They are reduced in numbers the common eland is not endangered. More...

Dromedary Arabian Camel (Camelus Dromedarius)
Native Habitat: Deserts in northern Africa, Arabia, and the Middle East, while a feral population is found in Australia. Every member of the Camelus Dromedarius species is either domesticated or has become feral. More...

  

Duck (Various)

Running Ducks: Developed in Scottland from stock that originated in the East Indies.

Khaki Campbell: Great Britain. An early 20th Century Breed, designed to be with chickens, a splasher rather than a swimmer.

Rouen: Named for the city in France where they originated. Appearance is very much like the Mallard.

Ducks prefer wetlands with large amounts of floating, emergent, and submerged vegetation. Wetlands also produce a great deal of aquatic invertebrates on which ducks feed.

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Rocky Mountain Elk (Cervus elaphus nelsoni)
Native Habitat: Ranges from New Mexico to north central British Columbia. They prefer high elevations in semi-open forests and mountain meadows near cover in summer. In winter, Elk migrate to lower sheltered valleys, winds swept meadows, and lower wood slopes. More...

  
Emu (Dromaius novaehollandiae)
Native habitat: Emus are found throughout Australia from 
woods to scrubland to grassland to desert areas, but not in Rainforests. The Emu is a flightless bird. More...

Fallow Deer (Dama dama)
Native Habitat: Deciduous and mixed woodland of Iran and Iraq. Fallow deer are the most widely kept of the world's deer. They have been introduced to all inhabited continents, as well as, 93 Texas counties. The Texas population is approximately 15,000.
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Highland Cattle (Bovidae Bos Taurus)
The Highland breed has lived for centuries in the rugged remote Scottish Highlands. The extremely harsh conditions created a process of natural selection, where only the fittest and most adaptable animals survived to carry on the breed. Today, Highlands are found throughout North America, Europe, Australia, and South America. Despite long horns and an unusual appearance, Highlands are even-tempered, bulls as well as cows. They can be halter trained as easily as any other breed. More...

Lechwe (Kobus leche) 
Native Habitat: Floodplains bordering swamps and marches in Zambia and Botswana in Africa. This small marsh antelope was placed under threat in 1978 when a hydroelectric plant was built that reduced populations by 50%. Now, Lechwe are classified as a low risk, but remain conservation dependent. More...

Llama (Lama glama) 
Native Habitat: Llamas are found all over the world, but the species are native to South America, mostly Bolivia, Chile and Peru, with a few in Argentina and Ecuador. Llamas are one of the oldest domesticated animals. They have been used for pack animals for almost 4000 years. Llamas are members of the camel family. More...

Miniature Donkey (Equidae Equus Asinus)
Miniature Donkeys are native to the Mediterranean islands of Sicily and Sardinia, where they are almost extinct. Miniature Donkeys have not been bred down in size. When originally imported into the U.S., they were between the sizes of 32" and 38". They have laid-back, easy-going personalities and form close attachments to their owners and to other donkeys. Donkeys communicate by "braying," more commonly known as a hee-haw. Males are Jacks and females are Jennet. More...

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Pere David Deer (Elaphurus davidianus) These animals were first made known to Western science in the 19th century, by Father Armand David, a French missionary working in China. At the time, the only surviving herd was in a preserve belonging to the Chinese emperor. Its original habitat is thought to have been swampy, reed-covered marshlands. It is a grazer, eating mainly grass which it supplements with water plants in the summer. A recent count put the population at 2,500 individuals in three Chinese national nature reserves and smaller parks. More...

Red Kangaroo (Macropus Rufus) The Kangaroo is a common marsupial from the islands of Australia and New Guinea. There are 47 species of "roos." Kangaroos can hop up to 40 miles per hour (74 kph) and go over 30 feet (9 m) in one hop. An adult male is called a buck, boomer or jack, and an adult female is called a doe, flyer, roo, or jill. A baby is called a joey. A group of roos is called a mob. Kangaroos are herbivores (plant-eaters) eating grass, leaves, and roots. They swallow their food without chewing it and later regurgitate a cud, which they then chew. Roos need little water. They can go for months without drinking. More...

Scimitar-horned oryx (Oryx dammah)  Native habitat: Grassy steppes, semi-deserts, and deserts in a narrow strip of north central Africa (Niger & Chad). The scimitar-horned oryx is critically endangered and virtually extinct in the wild. Fortunately, captive breeding programs at zoos and wildlife parks like this one have been successful. More...

Sika (Cervas Nippon)  Native Habitat: Variable habitats, including forests, marshes and grasslands in Eastern Asia and Japan. The sika is regarded as sacred in Japan. Sika is Japanese for a small deer. Cervus (Latin) a stag, deer Nippon (Japanese) Japan. While many subspecies are in danger, the species as a whole is thriving, with numerous introduced populations in the British Isles, New Zealand, and the United States. More...

Turkey (Meleagris gallopavo) Native Habitat: Woods in parts of North America. Turkeys are the largest game birds found in this part of the world. Turkeys eat mostly plant material, including fruits, acorns and other nuts, small grains, and the seeds, shoots and roots of grasses and various other plants. European explorers took Wild Turkeys to Europe from Mexico in the early 1500s. The Turkeys at Chereokee Trace are the Standard Bronze variety. More...

Watusi (Bos Taurus) Alternate name Ankole-Watusi. Native habitat: Africa. These regal animals trace their ancestry back more than 6,000 years. They have been referred to as "cattle of kings." It was adopted a breed standard in 1989 to encourage animal scientists to take this unusual breed seriously, instead of treating it as a curiosity. More...

The Water Buffalo is a large ungulate (hooved animal) and a member of the bovine subfamily. There are two general types of water buffalo. The Swamp (Bubalus carabanesis)which are found from the Philippines to as far west as India, and River (Bubalus bubalis), which are found farther west from India to Egypt and Europe. The water buffalo has been associated with man from the earliest prehistoric times. Although the water buffalo was originally an Asian animal, it arrived early (about 600 A.D.) in the Near East and North Africa. It was introduced to Europe by crusaders returning in the Middle Ages. More...

Whitetail deer (Odocoleus virginianus texana)  Native habitat: The state of Texas boasts more Whitetail Deer than any other state in North America. The subspecies, Odocoleus virginianus texana, occurs throughout the state. Half of the population resides in the Edwards Plateau region. The population density in this "deer capital" is about one deer per 113 acres. More...

Zebra (Equus Burchelli Bohmi), Members of the horse family, Zebras are native to Africa. The Grant’s Zebra is a subspecies of the Plains Zebra. This species survives in abundance in southern and eastern Africa. Grant’s Zebras are white with black stripes on the forequarters which become more horizontal near at the rear of the animal. Zebra stipes serve as camouflage in tall grass to help protect the animal from preditors, such as lions. They may play a role in social interactions within the herd since each has its own unique pattern. More...

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