What are your favorite transplanted animal species which have been accepted as "native."

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Though native to Texas, I vote for the white tailed deer....it has made its home all the way to Finland, where there are loads of them!
Pheasants come to mind for game that is now considered native in the US

What's your pick from Africa to the furtherest reaches of the planet?
 
In the US, pheasants for sure. Swinging through a flushing rooster with a double-barrel feels about as American as it gets.
 
Would Red Stag in Argentina count? I also love hunting free range Sika deer in my home state of Maryland.
 
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That question is very difficult to answer, because there are many game species worldwide that we like to hunt, believing them to be native, but in reality they were introduced at some point, sometimes a very long time ago.

I don't have a favorite transplanted game species which is accepted as native. The game species I have hunted at home and worldwide was all native, but some of what is considered native here in Europe, is it not. The majority of the hunters believe this because the game is present in the areas for ages. However, the fallow deer is native from Asia and was perhaps introduced first by the Romans, it remains unclear whether the species existed in Europe prior to that, and the European mouflon is a domesticated sheep from the Near East and Central Asia, brought to Europe by Anatolian farmers thousands of years ago. Even the red deer, while native to Europe, did not establish itself unaided by human people in many parts of Western Europe. Some of the deer populations on the Scottish islands for example, were also introduced by humans from the continent, probably during the Stone Age.
 
Kind of a grey area and I fully acknowledge the damage they cause. Feral hogs. I guess we could call the true Russian boars transplants. The others are escaped meat hogs and crosses.

I had some of the most fun I've had in my life hunting them in GA. If I lived there, I don't think I'd ever get tired of hunting them.

As I mentioned though, real shame the damage they're causing.
 
I would love to go to Maryland and hunt sika deer.

I am planning to go within the next two years. It is 3-4 hours from a home I own and not expensive. What I can tell you, if you have never tried them as table fare, they rival a good filet...in my opinion.

Very cool to hunt them over the same storied waterfowl marshes where ducks are hunted in MD.
 
As a Brit, I love hunting Muntjac! Awesome little deer! Hardy little things, lots of character, taste great and can be hunted all year round in the UK as they are classed as an invasive species!
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The topic concerns transplanted species that are accepted as native. Otherwise, I also had a few favorites among the invasive species.
 
Big question.

Fallow are not native to Britain, but most people consider them to be British now.
Of course they are not native to South Africa, North America or Australia and New Zealand either. But I love them.

I actually love Aoudad as well.

The gemsbok oryx on White Sands Missile Range are a treasure.

Tahr have done well in South Africa's cape, New Zealand and California.

Sambar have done well in Australia, New Zeland and California.

I guess it depends on what you like.
 
Invasive species that have become so well rooted they can't easily be dislodged count, too!

Is it sambar or another heavy boned deer that inhabits a certain South Pacific island?

And chital are overpopulated on a Hawaiian island.
 
Would it bother anyone to shoot a Nyala or Sable in Namibia, far from natural range, even though the animal is free ranging in its adopted habitat?
 
Would it bother anyone to shoot a Nyala or Sable in Namibia, far from natural range, even though the animal is free ranging in its adopted habitat?
I shot a common lechwe in RSA, he’s beautiful but didn’t feel right not taking him in a swamp.
 
Invasive species that have become so well rooted they can't easily be dislodged count, too!

Is it sambar or another heavy boned deer that inhabits a certain South Pacific island?

And chital are overpopulated on a Hawaiian island.
Was I thinking of New Caledonia for sambar?
 
In Texas, Scimitar Horned Oryx. They are beautiful, the meat is the finest I have ever eaten bar none, and there is a very important conservation goal in keeping them in existence that is met by the private hunting ranches here in Texas. Hunting literally saved this species from extinction.
 
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