Black Wild Cats In Texas. Or maybe there has been some sort of hybridization going on that science has not discovered. Camera traps in a south texas wildlife refuge spotted a new ocelot roaming through the park.
Accounts of mysterious black cats crossing the road in front of motorists or seen by hunters are frequent but rarely backed up by photography. Jaguars throw melanistic (black) offspring and recent research has shown melanism is a dominant trait. Mountain lion (felis concolor or puma concolor)looks like:
They are the feral domestic cat, the bob cat, and the mountain lion.
Cubs are usually covered with blackish brown spots.adult males can be up to 8 feet (2.1 meters) long and weigh between 130 and 150 pounds (59 and 68 kg). The range of this small wild cat once extended from mexico up into the southern states, including texas, arizona, arkansas and louisiana. These black longtails could simply be feral domestic house cats that are adapting to a wild life. It seems to be over looked whenever there's a mysterious black cat sighting in that area.
