Wild Cats In South Texas

Throughout the years I have learned that nothing grabs the attention of an outdoors lover quicker than a wild cat encounter.

Wild cats in south texas. Apparently the cats were disruptive to the large white-tail deer and quail that the game ranch contained. The jaguarundi shares characteristics with the ocelot. The OCELOT is native to southern Texas and north-eastern Mexico.

They have no place to go because the native vegetation has been cleared making it hard for them to establish new territories find the shelter they need to rest feed and raise their young. Four primarily Central American cats jaguar jaguarundi ocelot and margay currently or historically ranged northward into the brushland south of San Antonio from Mexico. Meet the Native Cats of Texas Jaguarundi Jaguarundi Herpailurus yaguarondi The jaguarundi shares characteristics with the ocelot.

The jaguarundi and the margay occur. Bobcats ocelots jaguarundi mountain lion and jaguar. Of late south Texas and the Hill Country seem to be the hot spots for black panther sightings.

The last encounter with a jaguar in South Texas was in the 1950s in the San Benito area. Mountain lion sightings are not unheard of in this part of south Texas but as with other sightings it is the apparent melanism of the big cat witnessed that makes this incident even more unique. Bobcats are quite populous in the South Texas brush country.

Wild animals prefer to live far away from civilization. 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. However many have become endangered and are rare sightings sticking closely to South Texas.

Hidden away between Brownsville and Port Isabel is the habitat of rare ocelots small wild cats which are native to Texas. Ocelot kittens are born blind after about a month their eyes finally open and they start to develop different colors on their fur. These wild cats are known as the ocelot the jaguarundi the margay and the jaguar though it is now probably extinct in Texas.