When it catches larger prey, it will eat some and store the rest to eat later. It eats small animals when it kills them. If it hunts large prey like deer, it looks for them while they are bedded down. The bobcat stalks midsize prey and then pounces on it, grabbing its neck and cutting its spinal cord. With small prey, the bobcat waits motionless and then pounces. Occasionally the bobcat will kill larger prey like deer. One of the most common prey of the bobcat is the cotton-tail rabbit. The bobcat is a carnivore and eats a wide variety of small mammals like woodchucks, rabbits, skunks, raccoons, moles and squirrels. It lives in dens in a rock or tree crevice. The bobcat lives in a wide variety of habitats including forests, deserts, mountains, swamps and farmland. The mountain lion was found in New Hampshire until the late 1800s and the Canada lynx was present in the northern part of the state until the 1950s, although there have been some sightings of the lynx in the White Mountains. It is the only large cat species still found in any significant numbers in the state. In New Hampshire, the bobcat population probably numbers in the hundreds. The bobcat is found in all of the United States, except for parts of the midwest. The bobcat has excellent eyesight and hearing. The bobcat is about two feet tall from its shoulders to its feet. It gets its name from its short or bobbed tail. It has a striped ruff of fur on its cheeks and a short tail with a black tip. It has large ears with slight tufts of hair at the tips. ICUN Redlist - World Status: Least ConcernĬharacteristics The bobcat is brown with black spots.
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