A few Big Bend National Park areas will be closed next week as officials act to reduce the population of an invasive sheep species by shooting them from a helicopter. Aoudad sheep are invasive in the ...
SAN ANTONIO – The National Park Service will close sections of the Big Bend National Park in October due to the aerial shootings of non-native aoudad (barbary sheep). The NPS said the removal of the ...
A team of researchers has discovered that aoudad -- an animal in the sheep and goat family -- can catch and spread many of the same respiratory pathogens that can impact desert bighorn sheep, a native ...