Inside Texas’s $2 Billion Exotic Animal Hunting Industry | So Expensive
Inside Texas’s $2 Billion Exotic Animal Hunting Industry | So Expensive
Texas ranchers have been importing exotic species, breeding them, and building numbers on desert ranches that often span thousands of square miles. We break down how trophy hunting in Texas became such a lucrative business.
Corrections: An earlier version of this video showed an image of a Grevy’s zebra when referring to hunting. We corrected this to show a plains zebra, which can be hunted legally in the US. Another image of a Grevy’s zebra suggested they can be sold for $4,500. We corrected this to $20,000. We also showed an image of a nyala instead of a kudu, which has also been corrected. We said it costs $14,000 to hunt kudu at Ox Ranch. This has been corrected to $19,500.
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Inside Texas’s $2 Billion Exotic Animal Hunting Industry | So Expensive
Why?
Dirty business… ITS AGAINST NATURE
Can I stuff and mount the lady in the beginning?😆
Dude said he’s not a hunter or a fisherman but he’s definitely a serial killer at work!
You pay 3k dollars for a guided hunting tour by the owner of the ranch.🙃
driving animals to extinction
I wanna see these goons do this to their parents when they croak!!! I’d like to see them put some stunned looks on their stuffed parent’s faces!!!
Everyone commenting about the ethical issues. While I’m here saying Cebra???
You hunt wild game, you kill (pretty much) domesticated animals. big difference.
My grandfather used to operate a hunting ranch in far west Texas. There were Barbary Sheep on the ranch. In Texas we call them Auodad
Plays with dead animals and earns a small fortune.
Meanwhile animal shelters are screaming out for volunteers.
WHY IS HE ALLOWED TO FREERANGE NON NATIVE ANIMALS??.?
Felling so bad after seeing this………….
Let’s hunt back these people
Raised a animal to end up killing it for the simple pleasure of feeling powerful. If hunting is not done for food in an emergency, it is despicable and immoral
Why don’t these hunters go after meat eating animals?
Gross
Cheating heros
Just make fake skins too and sell those stuffed animals.
A very disturbing taste this is, raise to hunt but I guess the species will survive as long as there are hunters who want to shoot a specific animal.
Never have I seen a comment section this ignorant and completely braindead in my life.
Karma is everything .
As an African from Kenya, I feel irritated
Texas everything starting with the word Texas ends in some horrible goober nonsense activity … amazing ::::))))))))))
Zebra doesn’t have a D in it like Zed Just Z Zebra not zedbra.
I have been a meat cutter for over 26 years and I am now semi retired. I have been working helping a friend who owns a processing center. We process all the exotics, but also bison, elk, and the normal beef, and pork. We processed over 650 deer this past season and I had guys bring in high fence bucks that they paid 5 grand for. Exotics and high fences are alive and well here in north central Texas. P. S.–A LOT of these high fence places suffered horribly during the recent fires. The best they could do was cut the fences so the animals at least had a chance.
Copying the golden triangle smoke and mirrors to hide thee truth about the dirty hands of America and the drug dealing truth. Go to Burma to be Shan Sam e thing
Killing a living animal and then make an idol out of it.. How does it make sense..
Bruh I am all in for killing animals for food. But killing animals as a game ..
Like f*ck off man.
It’s easy to tell majority of the commenters have never been hunting
Sickening scumbags.
WELCOME TO THE 2 billion dollar industry that’s funding a holocaust. Anyone who buys, invests and supports these businesses are nazi’s.
I don’t know what’s the purpose of killing a animal if you don’t eat it
I love how Karma acts when these people die hahaha
Had no idea the industry was so big in Texas.
Probably better than depleting wild stocks in Africa. 🤷♂️
So where is Peta now..
Damn wbite people are disgusting us Africans need to stand up for our animals shits sad.
Ok as a Texan myself there is nothing wrong with hunting unless it’s an endangered species but a kangaroo 🦘 well even a Texan thinks that’s wrong
But.. why?? Trade your gun for a camera
Exotic game hunters are scum 🙃
I don’t understand this, but I like it a lot better than going to their native country/habitat and killing the wild animals. At least this isn’t decreasing wild numbers.
WTF Is US government doing dama gazelle is critical endangered species?
sale isse accha jinda hi rakh lo sale pahle marenge fir uske putle bnakar bejenge aur sale kitne proud se bol rhe hai "is big business" Abe sale…
this is sick
No wonder America is cursed!
Wild goat 🐐 hunting is a crime. Because of hunting this creature will be extinct in near future.
3:35 “there’s an emotional connection we have to wildlife…” so… come slaughter them and gimme yo’ money! 😂
Didn’t know shooting wild or exotic animals was even legal in the US. Here in India you could face a 15 year jail term along with a hefty penalty for doing this. How is the world not watching this ???
Does anybody else think God played man for a fool here?
Man went and damaged the planet so badly that mother nature has turned Africa into a desert, and set North America on fire.
If mother nature burned down all the fencing, and used COVID-19 to kill-off enough of all the ranch owners, then African animals will roam North America?
Which ironically resets for a pleistocene rewilding of North America, as if man was a mistake to get deleted from the continent???
Or man could simply stop pretending to not notice what has happened here by God’s will, and simply let the gates remain open and unlocked….
The herbivores would graze out all the fuel for wildfires, the carnivores would instinctually stay out of the city centers, and guns wouldn’t be for shooting ourselves anymore!
*Problems Solved Everywhere* if you ask me?
Yet more proof that Texas is a cesspit of America. Why did we ever annex them?
So harsh
They are so expensive because they are literally very few left. They are hurting and they are dying and I don’t know what kind of person would like to turn their house into Morgue.