Bobcat

The bobcat, bay lynx, or wildcat is two to three feet in length and weighs from 15 to 40 pounds. It lives in more open woods, swamps, and along cliffs. It is found from British Columbia south to central Mexico. It is brown or red-brown, faintly spotted or marked. It has a short tail four to six inches long and hair tufts on its ears. While bobcats may take young lambs now and then, their main food consists of rodents, chipmunks, squirrels, and some birds and eggs. The young usually number three, and are born in a nest which may be in a cave, fallen log, or, when available, in a hollow tree. Justly or not, man considers the bobcat his enemy, and traps and kills it.