Wild Cats In South Texas

Camera traps in a south Texas wildlife refuge spotted a new ocelot roaming through the park.

Wild cats in south texas. Of late south Texas and the Hill Country seem to be the hot spots for black panther sightings. Wild cats are solitary territorial animals. Both live in far south Texas and consume similar prey species consisting of rabbits small birds and rodents.

The conservation status where known of every wild cat species has been. Hidden away between Brownsville and Port Isabel is the habitat of rare ocelots small wild cats which are native to Texas. Ocelots are in small numbers near the Rio Grande mountain lions range in small numbers throughout South Texas and jaguarundis and jaguars havent been documented in this region for a long time.

These wild cats are known as the ocelot the jaguarundi the margay and the jaguar though it is now probably extinct in Texas. Yet sightings of these big cats continue to roll in on a. South Texas had originally five species of wild cats.

We have been dedicated to. Of the 40 wild cat species only the lion typically lives and hunts in groups. Current estimates are that fewer than 50 of these wild cats are left in the US with all of them residing in South Texas.

At 2011 Texas Parks Wildlife say there are four wild cat species in Texas USA. Bobcats are about twice the size of a domestic cat with a muscular physique and prominently pointed ears. It was the sighting of a cougar in 1987 that I consider to be one of the most pivotal moments in my life.

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. The MOUNTAIN LION aka puma or cougar is found in the Trans-Pecos of west Texas southern portions of. Rare Wildcat Spotted in Texas.