FWST: The Fort Worth Zoo just released a record number of this Texas animal into the wild

[TopFrog]

The Fort Worth Zoo just released a record number of this Texas animal into the wild​

Story by Tiffani Jackson

The Fort Worth Zoo just released a record-breaking number of Texas horned lizards into their native habitat, zoo officials announced Tuesday in a press release.

In total, the zoo, in partnership with the Dallas Zoo, Caldwell Zoo, Fossil Rim Wildlife Center and Pearland Nature Center, released 617 Texas horned lizards into the wild at Mason Mountain Wildlife Management Area. Nearly half of the lizards — 301, specifically — were hatched at the Fort Worth Zoo, officials wrote in the press release.

Mason Mountain WMA is a restricted-access park located in the Llano uplift in the Texas Hill Country.

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[Opintel]

I chased those critters down in Richland Hills when the family moved East and left Fifth Av. in Fort Worth (1954). I turned them over and gently rubbed their bellies, and they would fall "asleep."

 

[TopFrog]

A new brood …

 

[FrogAbroad]

When my parents moved us to Fort Worth we lived about a half-block uphill from Bluebonnet Circle, beginning about 1951 if I recall correctly. The area was "alive" with the little rascals until civilization crowded them out. I'm pleased there are people who want to help perpetuate them now.

 

[Double D]

I've seen a ton in Far SW Oklahoma over the last several years. Harmon County Northeast of Hollis to be specific. They are thriving there.

 

[HToady]

The fire ant and pesticides killed off their primary food source in the FW area but you can still find them in West Texas.

 

[ShadowFrog]

Better be plenty red ant mounds nearby for the buffet.

 

[Frog-O-Rama]

Don’t know the actual range of our Horned Frogs but I saw one in the wild once in Solana Beach, CA and they have their own exhibit space at Griffith Park Zoo in downtown LA.

 

[Frog DJ]

When my parents moved us to Fort Worth we lived about a half-block uphill from Bluebonnet Circle, beginning about 1951 if I recall correctly. The area was "alive" with the little rascals until civilization crowded them out. I'm pleased there are people who want to help perpetuate them now.

I attended what was then known as Bluebonnet Elementary, and was Class of 66 at Paschal, and Class of 70 at TCU.

Do we know each other?

Go Frogs!

 

[FrogAbroad]

I attended what was then known as Bluebonnet Elementary, and was Class of 66 at Paschal, and Class of 70 at TCU.

Do we know each other?

Go Frogs!

Yep...but not until KTCU brought us together for a couple of broadcasts, one at the stock show. I was also at KXOL-FM in '68...did we overlap there?