Big Cats in your neck of the woods?

A Jaguarundi is a small cat that resembles an otter.



http://www.nicoyapeninsula.com/wildlife/wildcats.html

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I have seen Lynx tracks on the property when the snowshoe hare populations are good. Nothing yet this year, but I've seen few hares in the vicinity.
There have been sightings by neighbors about 2 miles away of a cougar, which are known to exist here as part of a natural small population. It's good to have as much wild land habitat around for a good ecological balance and less of human overpopulation!

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I saw the same video. If I remember right the cat and the deer were never in the same screen. It showed a deer looking at something then showed the cat stalking something. They were never close enough together to get in the same shot.

Who knows where the cat and the deer really were or even if the deer was looking at the cat and the cat was really stalking the deer.

That is the same video I have seen several times. Each time the location changes. Who knows really where it was filmed at or even if the two animals were in the same country.

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if you have a resident population of jaguarundi, they are excaped or released exotic pets. in order to migrate there they would have to expand through 70% of mexico and then TX, LA & MS. these are SA cats and barely present in central america.

I must be crazy,because the last time I had my eyes checked the optometrist did not tell me I was blind. When I moved to NC 9 years ago,some of the locals from 90 to 19 told me about seeing black panthers. I laughed at them. Then a year or to later, bringing my mother back from the Dr's office, well I stopped in the road and watched a black feline cross the highway and walk in the swamp. You can call me a liar if you want to,but you better not call Ma one. She'll crack your head with her walking stick! Seriously, a few years later PBS had a documentary on about florida panthers. They showed film of some romping in a park, or zoo. Some were the tan,twany color I associate with mountain lions;some of them were a dark chocolately black color. I saw it on PBS, mayhaps they tranquilized them and dyed them that color, I don't know. I know what I saw and have seen. It's only around 450 to 500 mile as the crow flies from Florida. They said that the Florida panther has a range of 700 miles. Go figure. Who knows what loose in these swamps, I am afraid you'd be suprised!

You mean this one?

Posted before getting to the end of the thread...sorry for the dupe video.

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I have a friend who trees lions, with his hounds, for the Utah DNR biologists. They are then darted and collared.
After an informative conversation with one of the biologists I found that cats that they have collared move tremendous distances in their lifetime.
He has one, that is right now, on the Niobrara River, in northern Nebraska where his collar recently fell off. Working East. They collared him as a 2 yo. on the Oquahr("oker") Mountains, West of Salt Lake City, Utah, 5 years ago. Thats just short of 1000 miles, as the crow flies.
A territoried male, in this region, will claim an area as small as 300 sq. miles and as large as 700 sq. miles. With as many as 6 females. Depending on the food source and denning locations. Utah is one of several places that they are calling an "incubator area". The cats are very sucessful in raising their pop. #'s.
When a male kitten grows to threaten the resident male he's kicked out. He may cross the territory's of many different males before he has the ability to secure one for himself.
Cats use scent markers to actually call and keep the females in their territory.
So if you are seeing cats. There are probably many more that you aren't seeing.
I was also told that, for now, the Missouri and Southern Mississippi Rivers seem to be a demarkation line for the Easterly movement. That definitely doesn't mean there aren't lions on the other side. Just what his study is showing.
They still have 6 years of a 20 year study to go.

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