{"id":847539,"date":"2026-09-14T14:06:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T14:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/847539\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T14:06:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T14:06:16","slug":"rare-trail-camera-video-captures-florida-panther-mom-3-kittens-at-babcock-ranch-preserve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/847539\/","title":{"rendered":"Rare trail camera video captures Florida panther mom, 3 kittens at Babcock Ranch Preserve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0September 14, 2026 at 8:15 AM<\/p>\n<p>A rare sighting of a Florida panther mother and her three kittens is giving wildlife officials a glimpse at the species\u2019 potential to expand its breeding range. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">CHARLOTTE COUNTY, Fla.  \u2014 A rare sighting of a Florida panther mother and her three kittens is giving wildlife officials a glimpse at the species\u2019 potential to expand its breeding range.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission biologists captured the panther family on trail cameras at Babcock Ranch Preserve in March.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The female panther and one of her kittens were spotted again in July.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to the FWC, the sightings show that Florida panthers are capable of expanding their breeding range north of the Caloosahatchee River.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Officials said that natural expansion could be an important step toward helping the Florida panther population recover.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Overdevelopment and vehicle strikes have kept the species close to extinction for decades.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0September 14, 2026 at 8:15 AM A rare sighting of a Florida panther mother and her three kittens&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":847540,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[79,201],"class_list":["post-847539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=847539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/847540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=847539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=847539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=847539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}