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The bobcat (Lynx rufus), also known as the wildcat, bay lynx, [2] [3] or red lynx, [4] is one of the four extant species within the medium-sized wild cat genus Lynx.Native to North America, it ranges from southern Canada through most of the contiguous United States to Oaxaca in Mexico.
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 ...
"My last words would be 'pss pss pss pss,'" joked one person. "And just like that, I'd have a pet bobcat," someone else teased. "That would be an indoor bobcat. Immediately," a third commenter shared.
The hybrids closely resembled bobcats with larger bodies and smaller feet, but had some lynx-like features: long ear tufts and almost completely black-tipped tails. The Canada lynx is a protected species in 14 US states constituting the southern part of its historic range, but the hybrids are not protected and may be shot by hunters.
A female bobcat usually gives birth to two to four cubs per litter, and bobcat cubs begin traveling and hunting with their mother by three to five months of age. Within their first year, they move ...
After days of teasing farmers with an image of the Bobcat on the FarmVille loading screen, this brown furball finally sees fit to prowl into the in-game market. This 'lovable' feline will only be ...
Extremely precocial species are called "superprecocial". Examples are the megapode birds, which have full-flight feathers at hatching and which, in some species, can fly on the same day. [ 3 ] Enantiornithes [ 4 ] and pterosaurs [ citation needed ] were also capable of flight soon after hatching.
The name "serval" is derived from (lobo-) cerval, i.e. Portuguese for lynx, used by Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon in 1765 for a spotted cat that was kept at the time in the Royal Menagerie in Versailles; [3] lobo-cerval is derived from Latin lupus cervarius, literally and respectively "wolf" and "of or pertaining to deer".