The Texas Wildlife Sciences Hall contains Texas mammals, birds, and reptiles that are displayed in their natural habitats. This hall introduces the visitor to the natural history of the Houston area and Central Texas. Dioramas depict various local habitats and their common mammals, birds, and reptiles. These habitats include, Buffalo Bayou, pine forest, coastal prairie, hardwood forest, and grass prairie.

Historical information, biological and paleontological evidence provide us with the knowledge that the American Bison (Bison bison) or buffalo was a common visitor to the coastal region of Texas. Accompanying this migration from the northern central plains of these enormous herds were the predators and scavengers. Commonly, the coyote (Canis latrans) might have been bold enough to try to take down a large bull.

The red wolf (Canis niger) was once a common sight along the upper Texas Coast. The red wolf principally inhabited the marshy wetlands. However. it probably would not be unusual to see these canids hunting buffalo in the coastal prairie.

Today, scientists consider the red wolf extinct as a wild population. Several zoos in Texas and across the United States contain pure red wolf groups. The reintroduction of the red wolf into the wild has been attempted on barrier islands off of the southeast coast of the U.S.

Arboretum	Botanical Garden	Jack Roach Hall	Wildlife Sciences Hall
Geology Hall	Gallery	Oceanography Hall