A Michael Broad Blog
The answer to the question as to whether bobcats are solitary animals needs to be nuanced. Some websites bluntly say that bobcats are solitary. I don’t think that it is quite as black and white as that. My reference book states that: “the bobcat, like most other felids, essentially lives a solitary lifestyle”. They …
People have always asked a lot of questions about the species of animal that the bobcat kills. They want to know whether bobcats kill humans (human-animal 😊), deer, cats, dogs, coyotes, rattlesnakes, fawns, foxes and even whether they kill for fun. I’ve also dealt with the question as to whether bobcats would win a …
Yes, according to several sources. Bobcats have home ranges which are well-defined. They are not used by other cats of the same sex. Sometimes they overlap but the common areas are not used simultaneously. It is thought that bobcats don’t defend their home range but indicate their occupancy and avoid encounters with other bobcats …
It’s a bad question, poorly formulated, I have to say. Technically, a bobcat could kill a Rottweiler under certain circumstances (old dog for instance) but in a straight fight between two fit adults, the bobcat would probably lose the majority of times, I would argue, as the dog is 5 to 6 times larger …
Of course, bobcats can swim because all cats can swim from the smallest to the largest and from domestic to wild. In fact, they are at least competent and sometimes excellent swimmers (e.g. the tiger) although some species are slightly better than others. And some wild cat species like water more than others. For …
Yes, bobcats eat deer. Despite the bobcat’s diet being dominated by rabbits or hares (lagomorphs) over much of the areas where bobcats are seen they also eat rodents and deer which are important sources of food (and many other animals e.g. porcupines and skunks). Prey availability depends, as usual, on the season and the …
