Saw a dead badger in front of my house in Bee County once, roadkill, had no idea they were here.
--Don > On Aug 26, 2016, at 1:08 AM, Logan McNatt via Texascavers > <texascavers@texascavers.com> wrote: > > Very interesting study, thanks Jerry. > > Cavers spend a lot of time in the wild and encounter lots of wildlife--both > fauna and flora. For the interested, I highly recommend the book Texas > Natural History: A Century of Change, by David J. Schmidly, Texas Tech > University Press, 2002. The first half of the book is an introduction to and > reprint of the long out-of-print Biological Survey of Texas, 1889-1905, by > Vernon Bailey--an amazing quest. In the second half, Schmidly documents the > changes that have occurred to the landscapes/flora and mammalian fauna during > the 20th Century, with photos and distribution maps comparing then and now. > > In the 1889-1905 Biological Survey, porcupines were recorded only in the NW > panhandle (Tascosa County) and the Trans-Pecos Davis Mtns area. The current > range (as of ca. 2000) is all but the eastern 1/3 of the state, and deep > south Texas. > > There are even photos of a jaguar killed in 1903 near Goldthwaite (Mills > County)--that's 100 miles NW of Austin!--and another one killed near San > Benito (Cameron County) in 1946. Also in Cameron County...an ocelot killed > 1924, and a jaguarundi road kill in 1986. > > A porcupine showed up in my next-door neighbor's yard in early Sept 2012, one > block south of a busy highway (Ben White Blvd) in south central Austin. I > called a licensed wildlife trapper named Rio Tenango who easily netted it and > released it on a distant ranch that accepts such urban rescues. Small world-- > Rio recognized my house because he had been here for a UT Grotto vertical > training in my back yard years before. > > Logan McNatt > lmcn...@austin.rr.com > >> On 8/25/2016 8:15 PM, Marvin and Lisa via Texascavers wrote: >> And I can say they have been common in Government Canyon caves for years. >> However, just in the last couple of years have I seen increased amounts of >> road-killed porcupines around Spring Branch. >> >> Marvin Miller >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Texascavers [mailto:texascavers-boun...@texascavers.com] On Behalf Of >> Jerryatkin via Texascavers >> Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2016 8:01 PM >> To: texascavers@texascavers.com >> Cc: texascavers@texascavers.com >> Subject: Re: [Texascavers] Research finds porcupines are prominent in many >> south-central Texas caves : >> >> They're quite common (hence the Porcupine Grotto) in the western Edwards >> Plateau caves. >> >> Jerry Atkinson. >> >> Sent from my iPad >> >>>> On Aug 25, 2016, at 6:54 PM, Don Arburn via Texascavers >>>> <texascavers@texascavers.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> A couple live in Deep. >>>> >>>> >>>> --Don >>>> >>>> On Aug 25, 2016, at 7:51 PM, Jerryatkin via Texascavers >>>> <texascavers@texascavers.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> http://www.theeagle.com/landandlivestockpost/agrilifetoday/research-f >>>> inds-porcupines-are-prominent-in-many-south-central-texas/article_7cf >>>> be577-b3dd-581d-9d44-e2b136b331aa.html >>>> >>>> Jerry Atkinson. >>>> >>>> Sent from my iPad >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Texascavers mailing list | http://texascavers.com >>>> Texascavers@texascavers.com | Archives: >>>> http://www.mail-archive.com/texascavers@texascavers.com/ >>>> http://lists.texascavers.com/listinfo/texascavers >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Texascavers mailing list | http://texascavers.com >>> Texascavers@texascavers.com | Archives: >>> http://www.mail-archive.com/texascavers@texascavers.com/ >>> http://lists.texascavers.com/listinfo/texascavers >> _______________________________________________ >> Texascavers mailing list | http://texascavers.com >> Texascavers@texascavers.com | Archives: >> http://www.mail-archive.com/texascavers@texascavers.com/ >> http://lists.texascavers.com/listinfo/texascavers >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Texascavers mailing list | http://texascavers.com >> Texascavers@texascavers.com | Archives: >> http://www.mail-archive.com/texascavers@texascavers.com/ >> http://lists.texascavers.com/listinfo/texascavers > > _______________________________________________ > Texascavers mailing list | http://texascavers.com > Texascavers@texascavers.com | Archives: > http://www.mail-archive.com/texascavers@texascavers.com/ > http://lists.texascavers.com/listinfo/texascavers
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