You better tell your friend in South Texas he's full of it!

We do have Rhino, both white, and black, in Texas,but they are in places like Fossel rim wildlife park. They are here for breading in safety, so they can be saved for re-release into the wild in Africa, nothing more!

It is illegal to import any dangerous game into Texas, for the purpose of hunting! It is illegal to release any dangerous game, in Texas, for the purpose hunting them, even if they were born in Texas. Even Cougar, or black bear, that are native to Texas may not be released for the purpose of hunting. No dangerous game animal may be kept in captivity in Texas without a state permit, and may not be releasesd at all, but must be turned in to the state Game folks if you decide you don't want them.

The Exotic game in Texas has been liveing here for a couple hundred years, and has been here as a species for a long time. Most being brought here by the very large KING RANCH, back in the 1800s. The animals (NON-DANGEROUS GAME) may be trapped,in Texas, and sold to other ranches in Texas.

Most of the species like Black buck, sika deer, and fallow deer, have been here, free rangeing, for a long time. I'm 69 yrs old, and born on a Texas Hill country ranch. I can remember seeing fallow deer in our pastures when I was not more that four years old, and I suppose they had been here long before that. The highest fence we had on our place was a 5 strand barb-wire cattle fence. I never saw a HIGH FENCE till I was in my twenties. The high fences went in because the ranchers started manageing their deer herds for quality,by selective culling and, and the fence is to keep inferior game OUT, and so the population can be controlled to match the carring capacity of the habitate. Game on these rances are not tame, and are no more farm stock than the Big water Buffalo of North Australia! These animals are no more tame than wild Phesant, or Chucker Patridge, which are imports as well. The Russian boar was brought here by an English Noblemen in the Carolinas in the 1700s and escaped, slowly mixed with domestic stock to become what we have today! Some in Parts of Texas, and Arkinsas are amazingly pure Russian even today! With stripped off spring, just like they are in the Black Forest of Germany.

It is tireing to read the constant misinformation on the internet about game ranches. If one wants to know what is legal in Texas, in regard to exotics, all one needs do is punch up the Texas Parks and Wildlife dept'S website!

I can show you a few game rances, where if you hunt on foot behind a high fence in no more that 1000 acres, you will work for your trophy, if you are selective, just like any other hunting area! On some of these ranches an Elephant could avoid you for a week,not to mention a deer, if you hunt on foot!

It all boils down to, if you want to go to Texas to hunt exotics, go, if you want to got to Africa go there as well. Africa is cheaper anyway! As far as what someone above wrote, the he suspects the trophy fee on a Texas Rhino would likely be $25K, I think if it were legal, it would be a hell of a lot more expenceive than that. Hell the trophy fee for a white Rhino in Africa is over $35K+ another $15K for daily fees, and airfare. A black rhino is in the area of $1000,000.00 US today!

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