Research overview: temporal avoidance of humans by suburban bobcats

Suburban bobcats commonly adjust their activity timing to avoid peak human presence, becoming more nocturnal or crepuscular in developed areas while remaining more diurnal in wildland. This overview synthesises camera-trap and accelerometer studies quantifying these shifts and their costs, including altered hunting efficiency and energetic trade-offs. It situates bobcat temporal avoidance within the wider literature on human-induced nocturnality across mammals and examines how recreation, traffic and residential activity drive fine-scale scheduling. The synthesis frames behavioural plasticity in activity timing as a central mechanism allowing bobcats to share space with people, while noting the physiological limits of such adjustment.