I have some corrections to make on former writings, etc.
First, the lovely cycling couple I met out of Las Cruces: they are Marty and Jim. Not Patty and Jim. Or Jo and Jim. Ooops!
The deer along the road heading to El Paso were desert antelope, small and spry. I labled some photos as oryx. But, sorry, they were Not oryx. The oryx are more “colorful”---usually with tan bodies and black and white faces and weigh 400+ pounds. They were introduced to the White Sands Missile Range in the 1960’s as an exotic animal for hunting. There are now more oryx in NM than in the Kalahari--from whence they originate! We keep trying to outsmart Mother Nature. But she’s a pretty savy Lady and we oughta just trust her judgment.
Prairie dogs in the Sonoran Desert? Nope. More like “round-tailed ground squirrel”. Lol! I am off by about 500 miles.
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