A trail camera captured rare footage of a family of four elusive and endangered Florida panthers this weekend.
The video was captured by a trail camera set up by volunteer Tom Mortensen in eastern Collier County in Florida on Saturday .
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission says that the photos were taken on Mortensen’s trail camera in in Corkscrew Regional Ecosystem Watershed Wildlife and Environmental Area, a 28,000-acre wildlife park in Collier County. “It is important for FWC biologists to document panther reproduction and survival of panther kittens,” the FWC tells the“Photos like these can indicate that panthers are reproducing and raising their kittens to an age where they can disperse, enhancing future generations.”Florida panthers, also known as the North American cougar, are a rare subspecies of mountain lion that is currently endangered.
However, the panthers have now been confined to a small geographic area in southwest Florida after being hunted to near-extinction. In fact, it was one of the first species added to the U.S. endangered species list in 1973.
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