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A morphological size comparison study in the eastern United States found a divergence in the location of the largest male and female specimens, suggesting differing selection constraints for the sexes. [39] Skeletal muscles make up 58.5 % of the bobcat's body weight.
Following list contains size (weight and length) measurements for wild adult males of each species: Rank Common name ... Bobcat: Lynx rufus: 6.4–18.3 (14-40)
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 ...
This woman’s 7-year-old pet cat Dexter has grown to the jaw-dropping size of an adult male bobcat! Dexter, who weighs over 24 lbs., is an F6 Savannah cat, meaning he’s only six generations ...
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“How in the world did that bobcat let him get that close?”
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.
Its paws can support almost twice as much weight as a bobcat's before sinking. [7] [28] Both species walk with the back foot typically following the front foot and often do not follow a straight line. The lynx's stride is 300–460 mm (12–18 in), while the bobcat's varies between 130 and 410 mm (5 and 16 in).