Sunshine go away

I never thought I would say those words! But unfortunately, the quickly approaching South Texas summer heat may hamper our trapping efforts. Traps are checked at sunrise and any captured animals worked up and released well before noon, but safety of the animals always comes first. So when temperatures rise about 90 degrees for a certain number of days....well, it's time to close the traps for good.

Luckily, we will be resuming trapping as soon as the heat releases its grip; sometime in September or October.

So everyone keep your fingers and whiskers crossed that we get at least another week or two in before it gets too warm.

And pray for rain, clouds and cool breezes.


Research associate, AC, measures the paw width of a male bobcat. Bobcats are sympatric carnivores to ocelots. This simply means that they occur in the same geographical areas, or even have overlapping home ranges, but do not interbreed. Next post: some preliminary home range graphics where you can see this overlap.