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[deleted] t1_ix8s3w8 wrote

I’ve been waiting for someone to do an AMA about this!

I NEED to know: Have you or your team found any evidence of large felines living in Texas?

I ask because when I lived in north east Texas my dad and I raised and bred horses. On our way back from the pasture one day a very large (jaguar or leopard size) black feline was very lazily walking down the side of highway 276, when it saw us it walked across the road and down into some forests.

I know some people told me a guy released a bunch of big cats back in the 80s during an FBI raid, but this happened around 2006-2007. The only other thing I could think was that jaguars are moving north, because the ocelots are rare and small.

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benmasters88 t1_ix9bhv8 wrote

there's mountain lions in Texas but no breeding populations in NE Texas. The last documented jaguar in Texas was in the 40s and there has never been a black jaguar anywhere close to Texas, I think the farthest north melanistic jaguar was documented in Chiapas MX

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