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  2. Bobcat - Wikipedia

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    It remains in some of its original range, but populations are vulnerable to extirpation by coyotes and domestic animals. Though the bobcat prefers rabbits and hares, it hunts insects, chickens, geese and other birds, small rodents, and deer. Prey selection depends on location and habitat, season, and abundance. Like most cats, the bobcat is ...

  3. Mexican bobcat - Wikipedia

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    The Mexican bobcat is the smallest of the bobcat subspecies and grows to about twice the size of a house cat. It is similar in appearance to the lynx except for the tail, which is darker in color. [4] Adults of this species range from nine to thirty pounds. [3] The coat color of this animal varies from light gray to reddish brown.

  4. Lynx - Wikipedia

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    The bobcat is thought to have arised from a dispersal across the Bering Land Bridge during the Early Pleistocene, around 2.5-2.4 million years ago, with the Iberian lynx suggested to have speciated around 1 million years ago, at the end of the Early Pleistocene, the Eurasian lynx is thought to have evolved from Asian populations of Lynx ...

  5. Great Smoky Mountains - Wikipedia

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    Most of the forest is a mature second-growth hardwood forest. The range's 1,600 species of flowering plants include over 100 species of native trees and 100 species of native shrubs. The Smokies are also home to over 450 species of non-vascular plants and 2,000 species of fungi. [20] [21]

  6. Iberian lynx - Wikipedia

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    Management efforts have been developed to conserve and restore the animal's native range. [49] Officials intending to release captive-bred lynx look for areas of appropriate habitat, rabbit abundance, and acceptance by the local human population. [50] About 90 million euros was spent on various conservation measures between 1994 and 2013. [51]

  7. Fauna of the United States - Wikipedia

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    The bald eagle is the national bird of the United States and appears on its Great Seal.The bald eagle's range includes all of the contiguous United States and Alaska.. The fauna of the United States of America is all the animals living in the Continental United States and its surrounding seas and islands, the Hawaiian Archipelago, Alaska in the Arctic, and several island-territories in the ...

  8. Ocelot - Wikipedia

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    The ocelot (Leopardus pardalis) is a medium-sized spotted wild cat that reaches 40–50 cm (16–20 in) at the shoulders and weighs between 7 and 15.5 kg (15 and 34 lb) on average.

  9. Species distribution - Wikipedia

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    A species range map represents the region where individuals of a species can be found. This is a range map of Juniperus communis, the common juniper.. Species distribution, or species dispersion, [1] is the manner in which a biological taxon is spatially arranged. [2]