Wild Cats In South Texas

Wild animals prefer to live far away from civilization.

Wild cats in south texas. However many have become endangered and are rare sightings sticking closely to South Texas. Bobcats ocelots jaguarundi mountain lion and jaguar. Current estimates are that fewer than 50 of these wild cats are left in the US with all of them residing in South Texas.

Four primarily Central American cats jaguar jaguarundi ocelot and margay currently or historically ranged northward into the brushland south of San Antonio from Mexico. The jaguarundi and the margay occur. The conservation status where known of every wild cat species has been.

As the locals of Delhi Texas reported in the mid-1980s several jaguarundis were relocated to Bastrop and Caldwell counties from a large game ranch in south Texas. Here at Laguna Atascosa National Park in Cameron County there are three varieties of wild cats. The Feline Research Program at Texas AM University-Kingsville is dedicated to conducting research on wild cats to gain understanding of their ecology behavior and conservation genetics and apply knowledge gained to the recovery of wild populations.

Both live in far south Texas and consume similar prey species consisting of rabbits small birds and rodents. One of the rarest and most striking wild cats in the United States is getting a helping hand in South Texas. Yet sightings of these big cats continue to roll in on a.

Rare wild ocelot spotted on South Texas wildlife refuge. Bobcats are quite populous in the South Texas brush country. The desert bobcat is found in the west and northwest regions of the state while the Texas bobcat roams throughout the rest of the state.

Mountain lion sightings are not unheard of in this part of south Texas but as with other sightings it is the apparent melanism of the big cat witnessed that makes this incident even more unique. Throughout the years I have learned that nothing grabs the attention of an outdoors lover quicker than a wild cat encounter. Since the jaguarundis were a protected species they were trapped and.