Word: nilgai
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Windshield ranchers have also been busy creating their own personal game preserves. The Army first introduced camels to the area in 1856, and starting in the 1940s the locals began importing other exotic animals--ibex and zebras, nilgai antelope from Pakistan and barasingh deer from India. Veterinarians report a land-office business treating exotic pets. "I had to neuter a coatimundi once, and I didn't even know what species it was," says veterinarian Cuatro Patterson. (It's similar to a raccoon...
...anoa (pygmy water buffalo) weighing 200 Ib. attacked and killed a 350-lb. nilgai. Animalcatcher Buck named him Little Tough Guy, but a few days later he found him cringing in a corner of his cage. Nearby was a 7-lb. porcupine...
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