Discover, Explore, and Stay Informed! Plan your next zoo adventure, Learn about animals, and stay updated with the latest animal news all across Texas. Don't just visit, EXPERIENCE the Zoo!
Discover, Explore, and Stay Informed! Plan your next zoo adventure, Learn about animals, and stay updated with the latest animal news all across Texas. Don't just visit, EXPERIENCE the Zoo!
Alaska is one of many states that regulate exotic animal ownership through permits. Bears, monkeys, wolves, and live game animals are banned. Alaska will not issue permits for the "capture, possession, import, or export of any game animal" for use as a pet. But some animals can be owned...
Slogan:"Texas. It's Like a Whole Other Country" State symbols Flower:Bluebonnet (1901) Tree:Pecan (1919) Animal:Large Mammal: Texas Longhorn (1995);Small Mammal: nine-banded armadillo (1927) Bird:Northern Mockingbird (1927) Fish:Guadalupe Bass (1989) ...
Texas State Small Mammal: Armadillo The nine-banded armadillo, a relatively recent addition to the Texas fauna, is the only species of armadillo that occurs in North America, the other twenty or so species of Dasypodidae being restricted to South and Central America. The Texas armadillo is ab...
Texas has three official mammals, two of which are the Texas longhorn and Mexican free-tailed bat. The third is the only member of its armor-covered family that lives in North America. They almost always have litters of four identical quadruplets, and they’re the only animal aside from hu...
Texas A certificate of registration is required in Texas if you want to own a dangerous wild animal. This category of animals includes wild cats, bears, coyotes, gorillas, chimpanzees, and several other non-domesticated species. Utah Utah has a long list of animals that are either controlled,...
State Animal Designations of the Fifty US States Animalsdominate human conceptions of life on Earth not simply by their size, abundance, and sheer diversity but also by their mobility, a trait that humans share. So integral is movement to the conception of animals that sponges, which lack musc...
TexasCitation Health and Safety, Title 10, Secs. 822.001 – 822.013 Definition "Dangerous dog" means a dog that: makes an unprovoked attack on a person that causes bodily injury and occurs in a place other than an enclosure in which the dog was being kept and that was reasonably certain...
State Animal:Nine-banded Armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus) State Mammal:Texas Longhorn (Bos Taurus Taurus) State Fruit:Ruby Red Grapefruit State Gemstone:Blue Topaz Flag:The flag was adoptedas the state flag when Texas became the 28th state in 1845. As with the flag of the United States, the...