

Males commonly weigh 110 232 pounds, while females range from 79 132 pounds, though Texas cats typically weigh at the lower end of the range.

A surveillance camera caught the rare footage in the early morning. Mountain Lion Puma concolor Mountain lions, as they’re commonly called in the West, are also known as cougars, pumas, and panthers. If you have a verifiable mountain lion sighting, please contact your local biologist or game warden or call Texas Parks and Wildlife headquarters at 1-80. Texas Parks and Wildlife officials have confirmed a mountain lion sighting near Lake Ray Hubbard in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Confirmed sightings are usually in far West Texas and in southwestern. While Animal Services does not trap or handle mountain lions sighted within Leander city limits, Texas Parks and Wildlife collects mountain lion sighting and mortality data. Some might think seeing a mountain lion is a common occurrence in Texas, but its not. There are various gamecam pictures online, but while the images are usually not doctored, the locations are not always correct: a picture of a. A mountain lion may cover a range of as much as 200 square miles, and travel up to 30 miles in a day, so it may have been passing through. If a mountain lion is showing aggressive behavior, be sure to report it. Texas Parks & Wildlife was not surprised when I reported it.

These animals are often just passing through, and sightings of mountain lions have occurred in all 254 Texas counties. Do not approach a mountain lion to get a better view or picture.Although mountain lion sightings are rare in Leander, we encourage all residents to follow Texas Parks and Wildlife Department guidelines on lion sightings or encounters: The state agency that tracks these sorts of things, the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, reports that mountain lion sightings have occurred in all of the.
