In 1957, the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department released 31 aoudad, also known as Barbary sheep, in the Texas Panhandle to ...

Aoudad sheep have exploded in Texas-and native species are struggling.

In 1957, the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department released 31 aoudad — also known as Barbary sheep — into the Texas Panhandle.

A deliberate 1950s introduction of 71 aoudad sheep for hunting in Texas has ballooned into a population exceeding 20,000, threatening native desert bighorn sheep through competition and disease. Past ...

Texas wildlife officials are grappling with an invasive Barbary sheep population exceeding 20,000 that is competing with and potentially spreading disease to the state’s roughly 730 native desert ...

A strain of sheep brought to Texas by former World War II soldiers who had served near the Barbary Coast of North Africa and saw them as game for hunters has thrived so well in their adoptive home ...

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Lone Star lawmakers recently added aoudads to the list of animals hunters can shoot from helicopters in Texas as part of a management tool to aid in the ongoing fight against the invasive sheep.

Earlier this month, a hunter in Texas reported harvesting an aoudad to the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. This is somewhat unusual, since the state does not require harvest reports for the ...

Barbary sheep are massive beasts with large crescent horns and a mane that drapes from the bottom of their neck to their stomachs. Also known as aoudads, the animals are native to the mountains of ...

TEXAS, USA — Barbary sheep are massive beasts with large crescent horns and a mane that drapes from the bottom of their neck to their stomachs. Also known as aoudads, the animals are native to the ...