UNUSUAL ANIMAL SIGHTINGS IN TEXAS

[leVieux]

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Please tell us of any unusual animal sightings you have knowledge of here in Texas.

I saw an ocelot back in 2001, although I’ve never seen a bobcat in the wild. Bobcats are thousands of times more common here. I’ve also seen a Whale Shark a mile off Boca Chica Beach.

A few years back I saw a game camera pic of a Coati Mundi from around Falfurrias. Those aren’t supposed to be within 800 miles of Brooks County.

The TPW officers in Brownsville were shown a video of a full grown Jaguar from a LaSalle County ranch.

Please tell us of any unusual animal sightings you know of.

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[Tnhawk]

The only unusual things I've seen migrated here from liberal western states.

 

[leVieux]

The only unusual things I've seen migrated here from liberal western states.

Are we in trouble yet ?

 

[msharley]

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Please tell us of any unusual animal sightings you have knowledge of here in Texas.

I saw an ocelot back in 2001, although I’ve never seen a bobcat in the wild. Bobcats are thousands of times more common here. I’ve also seen a Whale Shark a mile off Boca Chica Beach.

A few years back I saw a game camera pic of a Coati Mundi from around Falfurrias. Those aren’t supposed to be within 800 miles of Brooks County.

The TPW officers in Brownsville were shown a video of a full grown Jaguar from a LaSalle County ranch.

Please tell us of any unusual animal sightings you know of.

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[Tnhawk]

Are we in trouble yet ?

They do seem to be increasing at a rapid rate.

 

[studenygreg]

Not unusual but every summer there are mountain lions sightings in my area. Probably looking for water or pets to eat. I heard they live on camp bullis.

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[leVieux]

Not unusual but every summer there are mountain lions sightings in my area. Probably looking for water or pets to eat. I heard they live on camp bullis.

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Ah, the beautiful Camp Bullis, with its numerous rifle ranges. . . . . . . .

 

[Vaquero]

A solid black cat. Mountain lion sized, crossed the road in front of me.
Cleared the fence on the right side, one bound in the middle of the road and cleared the fence on the left side.
Biologists say they don't exist in Texas.

Another sighting was a cat like animal. Bigger than any bobcat. A spotted coat with a long ringed tail.

These were both in the 70s. I found the ring tail cat in the encyclopedia.
It belongs in central and south America. I forgot the name of the genus.

The only black cat as big as what I saw is supposedly in the Florida everglades.
Both of these sightings were in Taylor County, Texas.

 

[MTA]

Supposedly there is a tagged black bear in Fannin county that the TPWD tracks. Someone in Gober, which is right down the road from me, had the bear on his trail camera

 

[BuzzinSATX]

Tagging in for the Wood Booger pics!

 

[toddnjoyce]

Somewhere around here I’ve got a 110 photo of a hammerhead shark caught off a party boat in Port Aransas.

 

[Vaquero]

Somewhere around here I’ve got a 110 photo of a hammerhead shark caught off a party boat in Port Aransas.

I caught a hammerhead while on a party boat out of Galveston in the early 80s.
I've got a picture somewhere.
It was about 18" long. Crew flipped out.

 

[leVieux]

A solid black cat. Mountain lion sized, crossed the road in front of me.
Cleared the fence on the right side, one bound in the middle of the road and cleared the fence on the left side.
Biologists say they don't exist in Texas.

Another sighting was a cat like animal. Bigger than any bobcat. A spotted coat with a long ringed tail.

These were both in the 70s. I found the ring tail cat in the encyclopedia.
It belongs in central and south America. I forgot the name of the genus.

The only black cat as big as what I saw is supposedly in the Florida everglades.
Both of these sightings were in Taylor County, Texas.

Many have reported large black cougar-type cats, way back since the late 1700’s. I heard they are a dark phase of the American Cougar (Mountain Lion / “Panther”).

 

[cycleguy2300]

Took my oldest for a moto ride to breakfast and saw this guy. Swung back by afterwards to show my kid.

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[General Zod]

I saw that crossdressing asshole "Leslie" a few times when I lived in Austin...

 

[leVieux]

Took my oldest for a moto ride to breakfast and saw this guy. Swung back by afterwards to show my kid.

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Ringtail - Wikipedia

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[rr2241tx]

I saw that crossdressing asshole "Leslie" a few times when I lived in Austin...

Leslie was not a rare sighting but definitely weird.

I have had a couple of melanistic (black) mountain lions on my Llano Co. ranch since 1996.

Saw a Red Wolf in Llano Co. around 2005.

Around 1990, there were several very large blue jay like birds eating cedar berries in Llano Co. in late December. Never was able to positively identify them. They were about the size of a large raven, crested and otherwise colored like a common blue jay. Never have seen them again.

A female Central American skunk not known north of Guatemala denned and raised a litter in our Hays Co. entrance planter. The kittens were likely hybrids with our hog nose skunks. The kittens drove our tuxedo cat wild. She just knew she could raise those kittens herself.

 

[billtool]

Ran across footprint of a big cat outside of Scurry. BIG cat. Holy crap. This thing put a dent in a muddy creek bank that could not have been more perfect. Bald eagles hang out in near our neighborhood retention pond.

 

[General Zod]

Around 1990, there were several very large blue jay like birds eating cedar berries in Llano Co. in late December. Never was able to positively identify them. They were about the size of a large raven, crested and otherwise colored like a common blue jay. Never have seen them again.

I almost suggested scrub jays, but they're not crested.

 

[General Zod]

Ran across footprint of a big cat outside of Scurry. BIG cat. Holy crap. This thing put a dent in a muddy creek bank that could not have been more perfect. Bald eagles hang out in near our neighborhood retention pond.

There's apparently bald eagles around Cedar Creek Lake, but I haven't seen any of 'em. The cat print you saw was probably a cougar. When my parents had their house in Driftwood, we found a cougar print in the mud from the well digging. Almost as big as my dad's hand.