Wild Cats In South Texas

Currently found only in extreme southern Texas.

Wild cats in south texas. Bobcats are quite populous in the South Texas brush country. Today only bobcats remain fairly common. Bobcats ocelots jaguarundi mountain lion and jaguar.

Eighty or fewer ocelots ornately spotted middle-weight felids resembling undersized. Since the jaguarundis were a protected species they were trapped and. Both live in far south Texas and consume similar prey species consisting of rabbits small birds and rodents.

The desert bobcat is found in the west and northwest regions of the state while the Texas bobcat roams throughout the rest of the state. One of the rarest and most striking wild cats in the United States is getting a helping hand 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.

The Feline Research Program at Texas AM University-Kingsville is dedicated to conducting research on wild cats to gain understanding of their ecology behavior and conservation genetics and apply knowledge gained to the recovery of wild populations. Throughout the years I have learned that nothing grabs the attention of an outdoors lover quicker than a wild cat encounter. There are two types of bobcats in Texas.

The jaguarundi and the margay occur. Rare Wildcat Spotted in Texas. The conservation status where known of every wild cat species has been.

Meet the Native Cats of Texas Jaguarundi Jaguarundi Herpailurus yaguarondi The jaguarundi shares characteristics with the ocelot. Hidden away between Brownsville and Port Isabel is the habitat of rare ocelots small wild cats which are native to Texas. 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.