Bobcat

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Bobcat

• By
• Lindsay Reeve
• October 2008

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Classification System

• Kingdom
• Phylum Chordata
• Class Mammalia
• Order Carnivora
• Family Felidae
• Genus Lynx
• Species

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Habitat

• Most live in United States
• Also live in Canada or as fare south as Mexico
• Forests, wooded areas, swamps, mountains, and
  deserts
• Western United States
• Southern Canada and Mexico
• Prairies
• Rocky roughs near thickets
• Food /shelter available

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Shelter

• Bushes, trees and grass
• Hollow logs
• Claws
• Shrubs
• Swamps, forests
• Find there shelter

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Diet

• Rabbits, squirrels, woodchucks, skunks, racoons,
  moles, birds, reptiles
• Hunting at dusk
• Watches for movement in woods/ small animals
• Listens for noises
• Stays with mother for two months
• Only drinking mothers milk Teach kittens to hunt
  at five months old
• 24 pounds 11 kilograms
• Eat mice young deer
• Kill prey in one bite/cotton-tail rabbits

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Adaptations

• Nocturnal
• Camouflage
• Legs teeth
• Claws paws
• Fur gray, tan, reddish brown, brown spots or
  black stripe
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Fun and Unusual Facts

• Can survive in deserts
• Marks territory by scratching fallen logs
• Named after its tale
• Silent wile attacking
• As tall as 45 inches
• 115 centimeters 10 mg.
• Have pointed hair on ears called tuffs
• Most active at night
• Dont hunt bobcats
• Dont pollute water

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Works Cited

• Bobcats. World Book Student Discovery Science.
  2006. 2006.
• NatureWorks. Update N/A. New Hampshire
  Television. 30 Sept. 2008 /natureworks/nw4.htm
• Squire, Ann O. Bobcats. New York Scholastic,
  2005.