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10 summaries in Small Wildcat Biology on bobcat
Research overview: bobcat activity patterns
OverviewThis overview examines bobcat activity, which research generally describes as crepuscular with substantial nocturnal and some diurnal movement, flexibly tuned to prey activity, season, and human distu…
Research overview: bobcat diet and prey flexibility
OverviewThe bobcat is a versatile predator, and this overview synthesizes diet studies showing rabbits and hares as the dietary mainstay across much of the range, supplemented by rodents, birds, reptiles, and…
Research overview: bobcat distribution across North America
OverviewThe bobcat is the most widespread wild cat in North America, ranging from southern Canada through the United States into Mexico across an extraordinary variety of habitats. This overview compiles reco…
Research overview: bobcat harvest and population management
OverviewThe bobcat is harvested for fur across much of its range, and this overview reviews the science underpinning its management. Wildlife agencies use harvest records, age and reproductive data, and popul…
Research overview: bobcat home ranges and territoriality
OverviewThis overview examines bobcat spatial ecology, drawn from extensive telemetry research. Bobcats maintain home ranges that vary widely with prey density, habitat, and sex, with males ranging more widel…
Research overview: bobcat mange and anticoagulant rodenticide exposure
OverviewResearch in human-influenced landscapes has revealed a troubling link between anticoagulant rodenticides and severe mange in bobcats, and this overview reviews it. Bobcats accumulate rodenticides by e…
Research overview: bobcats in urban and suburban landscapes
OverviewBobcats increasingly occupy urban and suburban environments, and this overview reviews research on these populations. GPS-tracking studies in metropolitan areas document bobcats using remnant natural…
Research overview: comparative ecology of the four lynx species
OverviewThis overview compares the four lynx species, the Eurasian, Canada, Iberian, and the bobcat, highlighting how a shared body plan has diversified across habitats and prey. All share short tails, ear tu…
Research synthesis: bobcat conservation status
ReviewThis synthesis reviews the conservation standing of the bobcat, broadly secure and even expanding thanks to its adaptability, wide range, and recovery from past overharvest. It weighs regulated fur ha…
Research synthesis: conservation status across the lynx species
ReviewThis synthesis reviews the conservation standing of the lynxes as a group, which spans nearly the full range of extinction risk. The bobcat and Eurasian lynx are broadly secure, the latter recovering…