In the South Texas coastal plain, an exotic antelope called nilgai species, Bosephalus tragocamelus, originally from India and introduced to Texas by game hunters in the 1920s, serves as a host for southern cattle fever ticks (Rhipicephalus [Boophilus] microplus ), which pose an ongoing threat to the cattle industry in the area. (Photo by iNaturalist user ralphxxx, CC BY-NC)