ニューヨーク・タイムズのインスタグラム(nytimes) - 10月22日 23時02分

On a ranch at the southwestern edge of Texas Hill Country, a hunting guide spotted her cooling off in the shade: an African reticulated giraffe. Such is the curious state of modern Texas ranching, that a giraffe among the oak and the mesquite is an everyday sort of thing. “That’s Buttercup,” said the guide, Buck Watson. In a place of rare creatures, Buttercup is among the rarest; she is off limits to hunters. The Ox Ranch, near Uvalde, Texas, is not quite a zoo, and not quite an animal shooting range, but something in between. Here, the African bongo antelope, one of the world’s heaviest and most striking spiral-horned antelopes, roams the same countryside as Buttercup. The price to kill a bongo: $35,000. Himalayan tahrs, wild goats with a bushy lion-style mane, are far cheaper: $7,500. An Arabian oryx is $9,500; a sitatunga antelope, $12,000; and a black wildebeest, $15,000. “We don’t hunt giraffes,” Buck said. “Buttercup will live out her days here, letting people take pictures of her. She can walk around and graze off the trees as if she was in Africa.” We sent @danielberehulak to the Ox Ranch, where he took this photo of Buck and Buttercup. Visit the link in our profile to read more.

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