Wild Cats In South Texas

One of the rarest and most striking wild cats in the United States is getting a helping hand in South Texas.

Wild cats in south texas. Since the jaguarundis were a protected species they were trapped and. Here at Laguna Atascosa National Park in Cameron County there are three varieties of wild cats. 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.

Among Texas brags is listed a first in the variety of kinds of wild cats that roam her spacious acres. At 2011 Texas Parks Wildlife say there are four wild cat species in Texas USA. They rarely if ever venture into the Texas Hill Country.

There are two types of bobcats in Texas. The jaguarundi and the margay occur. However many have become endangered and are rare sightings sticking closely to South 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. Yet sightings of these big cats continue to roll in on a. Posted on February 7 2015 by Michael Broad.

Bobcat Lynx rufus Jaguarundi Herpailurus yaguarondi Ocelot Leopardus pardalis Mountain Lion Puma concolor There will. Bobcats are quite populous in the South Texas brush country. The jaguarundi shares characteristics with the ocelot.

Wild animals prefer to live far away from civilization. Bobcats ocelots jaguarundi mountain lion and jaguar. The last encounter with a jaguar in South Texas was in the 1950s in the San Benito area.