Wild Cats In South Texas

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

Wild cats in south texas. Bobcats ocelots jaguarundi mountain lion and jaguar. They rarely if ever venture into the Texas Hill Country. Posted on February 7 2015 by Michael Broad.

We have been dedicated to. The MOUNTAIN LION aka puma or cougar is found in the Trans-Pecos of west Texas southern portions of. Only about 50 individuals have been identified in the state.

Here at Laguna Atascosa National Park in Cameron County there are three varieties of wild cats. There are several kinds of wild cats that call Texas home. South Texas had originally five species of wild cats.

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. Since the jaguarundis were a protected species they were trapped and. It was the sighting of a cougar in 1987 that I consider to be one of the most pivotal moments in my life.

Not much larger than a house cat the jaguarundi. 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. Currently found only in extreme southern 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. Ocelot kittens are born blind after about a month their eyes finally open and they start to develop different colors on their fur. There are two types of bobcats in Texas.