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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 ...
Bobcats are only 3 feet in length, while adult male mountain lions are 7 to 9 feet. For comparison, a house cat is usually about 18 inches long. Mountain lions weigh 90 to 160 pounds, while ...
The bobcat is an adaptable predator that inhabits wooded areas, as well as semi-desert, urban edge, forest edges and swampland environments. It persists in much of its original range and populations are healthy. [11]
Bobcats are brownish gray in color, and usually have spots and bands on their fur, with large, mostly black ears and a black tip on their tail. They are about twice the size of normal domestic ...
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 ...
A Tennessee woman who believed she was rescuing a lost kitten was surprised when she found out the creature was actually a baby bobcat. The ordeal began on Sept. 20, when Jill Hicks, who was ...
The Mexican bobcat is found throughout Mexico, but primarily in Baja, western Mexico, and southward from the Sonoran desert. [5] The creature is also found in the Mexican states of Sinaloa and Nayarit, as well as parts of Sonora, Jalisco, Durango, San Luis Potosí, Nuevo León, Hidalgo, Morelos, Puebla, Tlaxcala, Tamaulipas, Michoacán, Guerrero, Veracruz, and Oaxaca. [3]