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( Dragonfire ) Characteristics >> Body: Browish gray with a touch of red >> Tail: 6" - 7" bobbed, black on end >> Ears: Have black tufts on end >> Belly: Usually a sandy white color Habitat >> Usually live alone unless with cubs or mate >> Live in caves they do not make but find >> Found all over USA and south into Mexico >> Favorite places to live are prairies and forests Interesting Facts >> If a bobcat enters a teritory that you don't want it in, just give it food and it will walk away. >> Bobcats began journeys such as hunting at dawn and they end at dusk Predators >> Bighorn sheep, cougars, coyotes, wolves, humans, who use their fur for trim, horned owls, and other big birds that swoop and pick them up. Breeding >> Takes place in winter >> Usually contains up to seven young bobcats that are lovable and harmless >> Born late April to Early May Interesting Facts >> The colder the climate is, the bigger the bobcats are >> Bobcats enjoy playing around in the water, unlike most housecats, and they are very good swimmers. Problems >> Are endangered, since people have been destroying their habitat, by polluting, logging, and hunting Prey >> Bobcat eat rats, mice, rabbits. squirrels, carrion, insects, gophers, wood rats, chipmunks, eggs of ground nesting birds, lamb, and young deer >> Bobcats love to hunt, they like to kill large animals like deer or elk >> Are secretive predators and are very quiet when about to pounce Interesting Facts >> It is illigal to keep bobcats as pets without a special permit >> Bobcats are born blind and weigh up 4 to 8 ounces >> The bobcats track is very easily distinquished with a roundish shape, four toes and there are no claws that show >> In 1950 there were about 600 bobcats in Canada, but around in 1964 they went down to 350 because of hunting. >> The Canadian government is trying to protect all these bobcats mostly by building sanctuaries saying hunting is illigal. >> The bobcat is the smallest member of the lynx group >> Bobcats are exellent climbers, swimmers, hunters, and eyesighers but they are unable to chase >> Are also called Lynx rufus, Felis rufus, chat sauvage, rotluchs, luchskatz, lince, lince rojo, and gato montes. They are all in a different language except for the two first ones which everyone calls them around here |