Wild Cats In South Texas

Yet sightings of these big cats continue to roll in on a.

Wild cats in south texas. Not much larger than a house cat the jaguarundi. Eighty or fewer ocelots ornately spotted middle-weight felids resembling undersized. Wild animals prefer to live far away from civilization.

The wild cats of Texas represent the most mysterious and beautiful elements of our native fauna. 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. Apparently the cats were disruptive to the large white-tail deer and quail that the game ranch contained.

Both live in far south Texas and consume similar prey species consisting of rabbits small birds and rodents. They rarely if ever venture into the Texas Hill Country. Many wild cats species are either endangered or threatened.

Currently found only in extreme southern Texas. There are two types of bobcats in 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.

Since the jaguarundis were a protected species they were trapped and. Wild cats are solitary territorial animals. The conservation status where known of every wild cat species has been.

The jaguarundi shares characteristics with the ocelot. Among Texas brags is listed a first in the variety of kinds of wild cats that roam her spacious acres. The last encounter with a jaguar in South Texas was in the 1950s in the San Benito area.