Here’s a table comparing the bobcat and the Canada lynx (note: in order to read the tables on a phone, I am afraid that you’ll have to turn it horizontal! Sorry for that but I have got the coding wrong 😒😢): Feature Bobcat Canada Lynx Distribution Southern Canada, Central and southern United States, Mexico …
In Texas they have a bobcat shooting contest called the West Texas Big Bobcat Contest. And on Twitter X, Christina, an animal advocate, has posted a photograph (see below) of competitors bringing in their shot bobcats I guess for weighing to see whether they’ve won the competition. To me, it looks grotesque and callously …
Great woman. Love her for her actions. She was smart. She combined intelligence with a healthy dose of courage. There was a risk to her as the bobcat was agitated and defensively aggressive as expected. But she used the shield to protect herself and after the cat was released, it calmed down and appeared …
This is about bobcat social organisation. Like most other wild cats, the bobcat basically lives a solitary life occasionally encountering other bobcats within their home range but these meetings are brief. Sometimes there can be ‘gatherings’ and on one occasion and anecdotal account tells us that 11 individuals were in one “drove”. In general, …
The question arises because there was a time in the late 1970s in America when a theory was circulating that the domestic cat breed, the American Bobtail, was a result of a mating between an American bobcat and a domestic cat. This would have been a wildcat hybrid. There are still people who enquire …
There are 2 key differences in appearance between the bobcat and the lynx. There are more of course but if a person is trying to identify a bobcat or a lynx and differentiate between them you need some clearly identifiable signs and I think one in the rear and one in the front do …
The short answer is that we are unsure. You will see some very variable answers from about one million in North America (National Geographic) to between 2.3 million and 3.5 million in the world but the source of the second set of numbers is said to be the top source of information of this …
Bobcats are good climbers as you might expect. They will climb a tree if and when pursued by dogs or perhaps charged by a deer. However, they spend most of their time on the ground. The video, I think, is quite a nice example of the abilities of the American bobcat to climb very …
