Wild Cats In South Texas

Wild cats are solitary territorial animals.

Wild cats in south texas. Yet sightings of these big cats continue to roll in on a. They rarely if ever venture into the Texas Hill Country. Rare Wildcat Spotted in Texas.

The OCELOT is native to southern Texas and north-eastern Mexico. Meet the Native Cats of Texas Jaguarundi Jaguarundi Herpailurus yaguarondi The jaguarundi shares characteristics with the ocelot. Four primarily Central American cats jaguar jaguarundi ocelot and margay currently or historically ranged northward into the brushland south of San Antonio from Mexico.

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. The jaguarundi and the margay occur. Bobcats ocelots jaguarundi mountain lion and jaguar.

These wild cats are known as the ocelot the jaguarundi the margay and the jaguar though it is now probably extinct in Texas. Of late south Texas and the Hill Country seem to be the hot spots for black panther sightings. There are several kinds of wild cats that call Texas home.

The conservation status where known of every wild cat species has been. Eighty or fewer ocelots ornately spotted middle-weight felids resembling undersized. It was the sighting of a cougar in 1987 that I consider to be one of the most pivotal moments in my life.

Both live in far south Texas and consume similar prey species consisting of rabbits small birds and rodents. Wild animals prefer to live far away from civilization. Posted on February 7 2015 by Michael Broad.