Wild Cats Found In Florida

From bobcats to otters heres a sampling of the wildlife you might run into in Southwest Florida.

Wild cats found in florida. Cougars are found in Oregon Washington Nevada California Utah Arizona Montana Idaho Colorado Wyoming New Mexico Nebraska North Dakota South Dakota Florida and Texas. At birth a Florida Panther has spots and blue eyes. Cougars are the fourth largest cat of all the wild cats.

This section describes what panthers look like compares them to their western counterparts shows where panthers formerly and currently live and describes their evolutionary history. It is a large slender cat with a tawny coat and white belly. The Florida panther is a subspecies of the cougar that inhabits southern Florida in the United States.

Of the four subspecies of cougar found in Canada one has been officially listed as. They are usually described as being tawny colored a. The Florida Panther Felis concolor coryi is found primarily in southern Florida in the Everglades and Big Cypress Swamp.

Herpailurus yagourondi a specie of small wild cat article reporting some sightings in Florida of a small wild cat called and thinly distributed in moist forest types NSiS. It has long shaggy fur which is sandy-grey in color with faint markings. In Brazil and Peru the cougar is considered Near Threatened.

Pallass Cat is a small wild cat species found in the steppes of Central Asia from the Caspian Sea eastwards to Mongolia and southern Siberia. The only wild cats officially in Florida are the puma and bobcat neither of which fits your description. There is even a cougar named the Florida panther.

Black marks the sides of the muzzle and top of the tail. Officially one species of wild cat is found in Georgia USA and it is the bobcat. The bobcat still has a wide distribution on the USA despite the expanding activities of people.