Wild Cats In South Texas

Throughout the years I have learned that nothing grabs the attention of an outdoors lover quicker than a wild cat encounter.

Wild cats in south texas. The conservation status where known of every wild cat species has been. At 2011 Texas Parks Wildlife say there are four wild cat species in Texas USA. We have been dedicated to.

One of the rarest and most striking wild cats in the United States is getting a helping hand in South Texas. There are several kinds of wild cats that call Texas home. Here at Laguna Atascosa National Park in Cameron County there are three varieties of wild cats.

Yet sightings of these big cats continue to roll in on a. They have no place to go because the native vegetation has been cleared making it hard for them to establish new territories find the shelter they need to rest feed and raise their young. According to the Texas Parks Wildlife Department breeding populations of wild mountain lions are found only in the Big Bend Trans-Pecos region and deep south Texas in close proximity to the Rio Grande.

Today only bobcats remain fairly common. Of late south Texas and the Hill Country seem to be the hot spots for black panther sightings. Camera traps in a south Texas wildlife refuge spotted a new ocelot roaming through the park.

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. Bobcats are about twice the size of a domestic cat with a muscular physique and prominently pointed ears. Only about 50 individuals have been identified in the state.

Rare Wildcat Spotted in 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 single greatest threat to ocelots is loss of habitat.