Wild Cats In South Texas

The single greatest threat to ocelots is loss of habitat.

Wild cats in south texas. Today only bobcats remain fairly common. The conservation status where known of every wild cat species has been. 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.

Bobcat Lynx rufus Jaguarundi Herpailurus yaguarondi Ocelot Leopardus pardalis Mountain Lion Puma concolor There will. Both live in far south Texas and consume similar prey species consisting of rabbits small birds and rodents. Apparently the cats were disruptive to the large white-tail deer and quail that the game ranch contained.

Posted on February 7 2015 by Michael Broad. The last encounter with a jaguar in South Texas was in the 1950s in the San Benito area. The jaguarundi shares characteristics with the ocelot.

Ocelots are in small numbers near the Rio Grande mountain lions range in small numbers throughout South Texas and jaguarundis and jaguars havent been documented in this region for a long time. Of the 40 wild cat species only the lion typically lives and hunts in groups. One of the rarest and most striking wild cats in the United States is getting a helping hand in South Texas.

South Texas had originally five species of wild cats. Meet the Native Cats of Texas Jaguarundi Jaguarundi Herpailurus yaguarondi The jaguarundi shares characteristics with the ocelot. Both live in far south Texas and consume similar prey species consisting of rabbits small birds and rodents.

Wild cats are solitary territorial animals. Current estimates are that fewer than 50 of these wild cats are left in the US with all of them residing in South Texas. 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.