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Texas’ Wild Exotic Animals | Texas News
Texas is home to over 100,000 exotic animals—from kangaroos to monkeys—freely roaming its landscapes, a wild legacy of early 20th-century ranchers who brought them for hunting or conservation. Since the 1950s, these species have bred and spread, with no full census since 1994. While some Texans embrace them as a unique, safari-like wonder, others worry about ecological disruption, disease, and competition with native wildlife. A recent win—the taming of a decades-long Japanese snow monkey colony—hints at progress, but managing these animals remains a complex balancing act between economic…
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