BIG BEND — Big Bend National Park has announced actions to protect native desert bighorn sheep by reducing populations of non-native Barbary sheep (aoudad) within the park. According to a press ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Pink eye in aoudad can cause cloudy eyes and blindness. Earlier this month, a hunter in Texas reported harvesting an aoudad to the ...

An invasive species found across West Texas may pose a greater threat to native bighorn sheep than previously understood. In a new study published in Scientific Reports, Texas A&M University ...

A team of researchers at the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences (VMBS) has discovered that aoudad—an animal in the sheep and goat family—can catch and spread many of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A hiker checks out the view from The Window in Big Bend National Park Sunday, April 9, 2017. (Michael Ciaglo, Staff / Houston ...

The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department’s Trans-Pecos Wildlife District is alerting livestock owners that it has received multiple reports of sick, blind or dead aoudad due to infectious ...

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.

A team of researchers at the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences (VMBS) has discovered that aoudad — an animal in the sheep and goat family — can catch and spread many of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...