We have bobcats and coyotes here, we used to have red wolves but I think they are extinct or so I have been told. No mountains or bears, I am happy to say.
The coyote population here is also a food source for the mountain lions, the game warden says. No one has had a close encounter of the worst kind with a mountain lion, since they have plenty of food, woods and other wild places and are not crowded and pressured by humans like they are in parts of Cali-I hike a lot in the woods near the river, and if I see tracks of a wild hog or lion, I find another trail to take, just the same.
I’ve heard that there are bears in Big Bend and Guadalupe Mtns park-but I’ve been to both many times and never saw or heard any bears-I’d have been back to camp fast if I had...
There are “real” red wolves in an endangered species breeding program in several sanctuaries-the ones in the wild now are mostly coyote, not wolf-interbreeding between the species after coyotes filled the space left after the wolves got mostly killed off-people didn’t seem to know a lot about healthy balance and wildlife management back then...