“You want to do what you can to show the animal you’re there.” You want to hold your ground, keep your distance, appear big, and make loud noises,” said Henehan. However, he did add tips for what to do in case you are approached by a mountain lion. Henehan says RGV residents should not be concerned about mountain lions attacking them due to the low volume of the animal in the area. “The only ones typically down here are males searching for food.” “The total mountain lion population is small, if any ,” said Tony Henehan, TPWD Wildlife Biologist. However, there are likely to be more present mountain lions in the area, but biologists say the exact number is not possible to track, but likely miniscule. The other three were spotted at the Las Palomas Wildlife Management Area and the Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge across that time frame. Officials state that this is the fourth mountain lion spotted in the RGV in the last 15 years by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. The feline had road rash, according to a game warden, which suspects them to believe it was struck by a vehicle. “It’d be one thing if we saw them frequently but we see them rarely.Trail camera captures baby ocelot at Laguna Atascosa Wildlife RefugeĪccording to officials, the young male mountain lion was found in the median off of Highway 77 near the Cameron-Willacy County line. “There’s no point in trying to capture him and relocate him given the fact that they travel 40-80 miles,” she said. “I think they should just leave him alone,” Higgins told the newspaper. Higgins told the Morning News she did not want to share the property address because she did not want curiosity seekers or hunters trying to track down the mountain lion. “The video appears to be legitimate, and the tracks were found in close proximity,” he said. “I’m about as convinced as I can be without seeing the cat myself,” Jackson told the Morning News. A bobcat’s tail is normally 6 inches long and does not touch the ground. Mountain lions are often confused with bobcats, but they are much larger and have long tails that touch the ground. Jackson said he shared his photos with a tracking expert, who verified the prints, the newspaper reported. “One key thing to keep in mind is mountain lions are a component of the natural landscape in many parts of Texas, and unless they are in what we would consider a no-tolerance zone such as near a school, or if the lion exhibited threatening behavior, then there’s really no action they would consider taking,” Texas Parks and Wildlife Department spokesperson Megan Radke said in a statement.Ĭhris Jackson, who runs a website and Facebook page called DFW Urban Wildlife, confirmed that he inspected the mountain lion’s tracks, finding them “in soft wet sand just south of where the videos of the cat were recorded,” the Morning News reported. She says, ‘Huh?’ I said there’s a mountain lion in my backyard.”īiologists said they suspected this mountain lion was most likely a transient juvenile seeking a home range, KXAS reported. Humphrey said she told the dispatcher, “I’m sitting in my car and there is a mountain lion in my backyard. Humphrey said she immediately called the police. “Then it turned into shock, and then it turned into fear.”
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