One Day in Texas Fossil Rim Widelife Center
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The second half of the tour road leads you to the overlock bar within the park. It is highest place, well, it is located on the top of the only mountain/hill in this area. Right there, you can enjoy a nice lunch with your firends or family while in the meantime have a very broad overview of the whole plain. You can even see widelives wondering below the hill foot. It is a totally, enjoyable moment of the whole trip. If you have kids, you will also surprisly found a small zoo nearby in which kids can actually play around with the animals. Ostriches, deers, goats and so on. Yes, this is the chance you can actual touch them. There is also a little bird cage by the bar if you pay attention.
The bar is right on the top of the mountain
The bar is it. Who is looking who then?
On the road to the bar, we were visited by two deers, two different deers.
 The left girl |
 The right girl |
Oh, Oh, we were discovered.
Kids really have fun with the nature
The sable antelope gets its name from the Russian word for "black". Their coat is short and glossy with females and young a rich chestnut with white facial markings and white on the belly and the rump. In males, the brown coat is replaced with black beginning at 3 years of age. But what amazed me was the horns, in my means, that's who the name "Sable" comes in. The curve, the length, makes you feel their strength and their energy.
Beautiful Horns isnt it?
 Female |
 Male |
The who family
The Addax is another kind of interesting antelope. Their color is adapted from desert living. They have shorter legs than most antelope, which gives them a low center of gravity and keeps them steady even on shifting desert sands. Its hooves are broad and rounded for sandy terrain.
Interesting enough, we found some with two horns but also some with single horn.
Some has vertical horn
Some has flat horn
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The next route, we meet some Aoudads, also known as Barbary Sheep. Dont be fooled, they are sheep, they are the only wild sheep in Africa. They were brought to the U.S. in the early 1900's for exhibition in zoos and parks. They were quite successful at reproducing in captivity, resulting in excess animals. These excess sheep were used to establish populations on private and public lands in suitable habitat. Free-ranging populations currently exist in California, New Mexico and Texas.
He likes like waring a thick fur dress.
 Wide Facer |
 Thin Facer |
