Zoo Animals in the Wilderness. Of the three species of wild ungulates seen at Point Reyes National Seashore, only two are native to the California coastal ecosystem, tule elk and black-tailed deer. The other species, fallow deer, was purchased from the San Francisco Zoo in the 1940s and released by a local landowner prior to the establishment of the Seashore. One other species-axis deer, which is native to India and Sri Lanka-was also introduced to the area but is no longer present. Fallow deer, natives of the Mediterranean and Asia Minor, are the most widely introduced deer species throughout the world. Descendants of these released animals, upwards of seventy animals, can be seen in the pastoral lands and the wilderness areas of the park.