Mammal Web Page

Lindsay's Bobcat Web Page

Index

Description	Habitat	Range	Food	Life Cycle
Survival	Facts	Human Impact	References	Links

http://enature.com/fieldguide/ showSpeciesSH.asp?curGroupID=5&shapeID=1027&curPageNum=3&recnum=MA0017
Bobcat
Kingdom	Anamalia
Phylum	Chordata
Class	Mammalia
Order	Carnivora
Family	Felidae
Genus	Lynx
Species	rufus

www2.ucsc.edu/police/ cougarvbobcat.htm

Description

It's fur color varies from tan to reddish brown. It coat also has spots. Adults usually measure from 24-45 inches long. Males weigh about 20 to 30 pounds. Females weigh about13 to 20 pounds. The kittens are smaller than the household cat.

www.worldwildlife.org/.../pennies/ critical_everglades.html

Habitat

There habitat can be in a number of different places. From lowland swampy areas also known as wetlands to forested mountain areas around ledges. They can also be found in the desert.

portalproductions.com/ spiritnature/

Range

My animal (the bobcat) lives just about anywhere in the U.S. except Delaware. There range is anywhere from southern Canada to Central Mexico.

wld.fwc.state.fl.us/ critters/bobcat.asp

Food

It mostly feasts on rabbits and hares. It also hunts smaller animals such as skunks, porcupines, small rodents and birds.. In the winter it feast on deer and larger animals. Rabbits and hares make up 2/3 of their diet! The bobcat is a carnivore.

Life Cycle

They are usually born in April and May. Litters can be born just about anytime except during December and January. Bobcats have a 60 day gestation period. Kittens are born blind and usually weigh 4 to 8 ounces. They are born in a den area such a rock crevasse, or burrow. There eyes open after about ten days. There mother teaches them hunting skills until they are old enough to go on there own. Which is usually about 9 to 10 months. Males are fertile after about 1 year. But females aren't fertile for about two years. The male and female bobcat only spend a few days together out of the whole year during courtship and mating.

www.blackpineanimalpark.com/ Animals/bobcats.htm

Survival

My animal needs food, water and shelter to survive. It needs wetlands, a lowland swampy place, and a deer yard where it can catch it's prey. It needs a den where it can stay when there are predators around and when there is bad weather.

www.blackpineanimalpark.com/ Animals/bobcats.htm

Facts

I learned that bobcats live in anywhere in the U.S. except Delaware. I learned that a bobcat will only go so far chasing their prey and then they will give up. I learned that a bobcat eats over 50 snowshoe hares a year. I learned that a bobcat can live up to12 years on average. They can live up to 25 years in captivity.

www.plh-photos.com/ Bobcats%20LG4.htm

Human Impact

Bobcats avoid humans. Some negative things that can happen to the bobcat is human development and hunting.

References and Links

Here are some of the resources that I got for my website. http://museum.nhm.uga.edu/gawildlife/mammals/carnivora/Felidae/frufus.html

www.sms.si.edu/IRLspec/lontra_canade.htm

www.sms.si.edu/edu/irlspec/CI_mammal.HTM

http:www.google.com/search?h1=UTF_8&UTF-8&q=bobcat+mammals&btnG=google+search

Http://www2.ucsc.edu/police/bobcats.htm

HTTP://www.yahooligans.com/content/animals/species/3897.html

Http://www.desertusa.com/april96/du_bcat.html

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