bobcat
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I’ve encountered a bobcat here and there, packs of coyotes and deer, but that was the first bear.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 1, 2025
OK, yes, maybe you still have questions about the bobcat pee thing.
From Slate ● Nov. 14, 2024
If you saw a red-tailed hawk injured after colliding with an office window, or a bobcat hit by a car, what would you do?
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 18, 2024
They also showed that Abby, the zoo's bobcat, which had been confiscated as an illegal pet, likely came from a southern U.S. population, as her DNA resembled that of Texas-area bobcats.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 9, 2024
Outside: owls, frogs, deer, the occasional bobcat, and Dr. Atchley keeps a small colony of bees.
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
In fact, Alcatraz is a noted sanctuary for nesting shorebirds, in part because it lacks mammalian predators such as coyotes, bobcats and foxes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 20, 2026
In the Vermont woods where Mr. Hoagland lives, coyotes have replaced wolves while bobcats have taken the place of Canada lynx.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2025
The sanctuary said it had lost five African serval cats, four bobcats, two Canada lynx and a Bengal tiger, among others.
From BBC ● Dec. 25, 2024
They also serve as an important food source for large predators like bobcats in the Southeast.
From Salon ● Nov. 28, 2024
Next to the steakhouse is a shooting gallery, where the fake guns have such poor aim that no one can hit the little bull’s-eyes attached to plastic cactuses, wild-eyed cowboy cutouts, and stuffed, patchy-haired bobcats.
From "Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus" by Dusti Bowling
