Wild Cats In South Texas

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.

Wild cats in south texas. 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. Not much larger than a house cat the jaguarundi. South Texas had originally five species of wild cats.

Bobcats ocelots jaguarundi mountain lion and jaguar. One of the rarest and most striking wild cats in the United States is getting a helping hand in South Texas. 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.

Rare Wildcat Spotted in Texas. Bobcats are quite populous in the South Texas brush country. Among Texas brags is listed a first in the variety of kinds of wild cats that roam her spacious acres.

The OCELOT is native to southern Texas and north-eastern Mexico. Four primarily Central American cats jaguar jaguarundi ocelot and margay currently or historically ranged northward into the brushland south of San Antonio from Mexico. 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.

They rarely if ever venture into the Texas Hill Country. Since the jaguarundis were a protected species they were trapped and. Currently found only in extreme southern Texas.

Wild cats are solitary territorial animals. 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. These wild cats are known as the ocelot the jaguarundi the margay and the jaguar though it is now probably extinct in Texas.