Took the family to a wildlife center (dial-up beware)
My family is actually a member of this center. My wife and I believe strongly in supporting conservation efforts whenever possible and this wildlife center, located just north of what is the Texas Hill Country, does a fine job. More info can be found here: http://www.fossilrim.org
The area is absolutely gorgeous. My pictures do not do it justice.
Ironically, one of the few nuclear power plants www.nrc.gov/info-finder/reactor/cp1.html is located about 10 miles away or so.
Here are some images of some of the beautiful animals you may find here on your tour through the grounds.
A male blackbuck from the Indian/Pakistani region of the world
Blackbuck female
Female waterbuck from Africa
What is curious about this species is that it has a bull's-eye marking on its rump. You can just see the white outline of it in the first pic. Scientists think that the bull's-eye butt
helps the young follow the parents in the high savannah grasses in Africa.
Arabian Oryx from the Arabian peninsula
This regal gentleman is from the Oryx family as well but is called a Scimitar-horned Oryx and for good reason!
He is from North Africa.
From the same region, you can find the Aoudad, a type of moutain sheep.
More antelope type creatures are the Roans from the savannahs of Africa.
This very friendly Addax was holding up traffic.
Addax rarely ever drink. They receive most of their water from the plants they eat.
I'm not sure what this is. I think it is a gazelle.
Here are some brand new gazelles I found hiding in the grass.
There were quite a few types of deer here as well.
Here is a young axis or fallow deer. I really can't tell.
These European Red Deer could care less that I am near.
In fact, this female red deer is downright indignant!
This big fallow buck I could only shoot from a distance, but take a look at that rack!
We can't forget the white tailed deer that made onto the reserve as wild deer but now are cared for by the staff. This little one was a bit startled by me.
Then as we ended our tour some extremely amiable emus and ostriches approached. The emu actually stuck its head in our car looking for food. I don't know about you but I think this emu was having a bad hair day.
And this poor ostrich, well, I found out that an ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain. Not too much uptstairs for this poor guy.
I'll end this with a poor picture of a very endangered animal. There are only about 50 of these left in the wild. I plan on going back and getting some better pictures but these really were not on the tour this time. This is an Attwater Prairie Chicken. Fossil Rim is one of the few breeding centers for this endangered species.
Enjoy. I plan on going back to get pics of some of the endangered wolves and kitties they have.
The area is absolutely gorgeous. My pictures do not do it justice.
Ironically, one of the few nuclear power plants www.nrc.gov/info-finder/reactor/cp1.html is located about 10 miles away or so.
Here are some images of some of the beautiful animals you may find here on your tour through the grounds.
A male blackbuck from the Indian/Pakistani region of the world
Blackbuck female
Female waterbuck from Africa
What is curious about this species is that it has a bull's-eye marking on its rump. You can just see the white outline of it in the first pic. Scientists think that the bull's-eye butt
helps the young follow the parents in the high savannah grasses in Africa.Arabian Oryx from the Arabian peninsula
This regal gentleman is from the Oryx family as well but is called a Scimitar-horned Oryx and for good reason!
He is from North Africa.
From the same region, you can find the Aoudad, a type of moutain sheep.
More antelope type creatures are the Roans from the savannahs of Africa.
This very friendly Addax was holding up traffic.
Addax rarely ever drink. They receive most of their water from the plants they eat.
I'm not sure what this is. I think it is a gazelle.
Here are some brand new gazelles I found hiding in the grass.
There were quite a few types of deer here as well.
Here is a young axis or fallow deer. I really can't tell.
These European Red Deer could care less that I am near.
In fact, this female red deer is downright indignant!
This big fallow buck I could only shoot from a distance, but take a look at that rack!
We can't forget the white tailed deer that made onto the reserve as wild deer but now are cared for by the staff. This little one was a bit startled by me.
Then as we ended our tour some extremely amiable emus and ostriches approached. The emu actually stuck its head in our car looking for food. I don't know about you but I think this emu was having a bad hair day.
And this poor ostrich, well, I found out that an ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain. Not too much uptstairs for this poor guy.
I'll end this with a poor picture of a very endangered animal. There are only about 50 of these left in the wild. I plan on going back and getting some better pictures but these really were not on the tour this time. This is an Attwater Prairie Chicken. Fossil Rim is one of the few breeding centers for this endangered species.
Enjoy. I plan on going back to get pics of some of the endangered wolves and kitties they have.
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Your link to Fossil Rim is not working properly....I get and HTTP 404 error.....
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Many of the animals there are endangered. They have a cheetah program, and three different wolf programs, the red, the Mexican and the Maned. They also are caring for the critically endangered Southern Black Rhino, Coati, whose closest relative is the raccoon, and the Grevy's Zebra.
Thanks for looking.
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It's essential that people care for the little that is left.
Thanks for sharing,
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Thanks and I totally agree with you. I remember back in 1995, I could drive to work heading toward downtown and I saw no smog. By 1997, our smog was just as bad as
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We don't do near enough, but we try. Thanks for the comments.
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I can't wait until I am able to take pictures of the Attwater Prairie Chickens close-up. That is going to be fun and educational.
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It certainly is and I love to buy land nearby.
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Thanks Harry. It was fun. And how ironic that one of the ugliest birds I know turns out to give me one of my better shots. Go figure.
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It has been a long time since I have been to Fossil Rim. Considering how close it is I probably should go again.
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