RANGE Southern Canada, United States, and parts of Mexico
HABITAT Temperate forests, semideserts, mountains, deserts, swamps, and scrubland
DIET Rabbits, squirrels, mice, deer, birds, reptiles, and insects
Bobcats are nocturnal and solitary. Territories are established with scent markings.
Bobcats are ambush hunters. They can bring down prey as large as an adult deer nearly ten times its own weight!
Their den is usually well-concealed, in a dense thicket, hollow tree, or rock cavity. Young are typically born in the spring. The female nurses the kittens for two months.
Habitat loss is viewed as the primary threat to bobcats. Bobcats are also hunted for their fur.
