Wild Cats In South Texas

Camera traps in a south Texas wildlife refuge spotted a new ocelot roaming through the park.

Wild cats in south texas. Ocelot kittens are born blind after about a month their eyes finally open and they start to develop different colors on their fur. Four primarily Central American cats jaguar jaguarundi ocelot and margay currently or historically ranged northward into the brushland south of San Antonio from Mexico. The single greatest threat to ocelots is loss of habitat.

Bobcats ocelots jaguarundi mountain lion and jaguar. Today only bobcats remain fairly common. Here at Laguna Atascosa National Park in Cameron County there are three varieties of wild cats.

Throughout the years I have learned that nothing grabs the attention of an outdoors lover quicker than a wild cat encounter. Rare Wildcat Spotted in Texas. Wild animals prefer to live far away from civilization.

Bobcats are quite populous in the South Texas brush country. South Texas had originally five species of wild cats. We have been dedicated to.

The conservation status where known of every wild cat species has been. 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.

Wild cats are solitary territorial animals. Since the jaguarundis were a protected species they were trapped and. Current estimates are that fewer than 50 of these wild cats are left in the US with all of them residing in South Texas.