Looks like the city had a visitor that is rarely seen.
Bobcat sighted in Thunder Bay - TBNewsWatch.com
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Bobcat sighted in Thunder Bay - TBNewsWatch.com
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Yea, they are a great looking cat. I always thought the name bobcat and Canadian Lynx were interchangeable. After I read the linked article I wondered about that. Turns out the bobcat and Canadian Lynx are not the same animal but in the same family if you will. I think it would be hard for the average person, me, to tell the difference because this family of cats are rarely seen. Our area has both.
Canadian Cats - International Society for Endangered Cats (ISEC) Canada (wildcatconservation.org)
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Extreme sharpness is ephemeral!
I'm surprised to read that both the Bob -Cat and the Lynx can be trapped and hunted with given quotas.
The Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources or whatever they are calling themselves today is responsible for the management of wildlife among other things. They use varies methods like surveys to try and determine the size of the various wild animal populations. From that they determine if any species can be hunted/trapped and in what numbers so as not to reduce the population sizes. If a species is over populate in an are they have been known to organise culls in that area to bring that population back to a sustainable size. Anyway it all sounds very good on paper and hopefully thay do get it right.
Bob
Bob(cat), thanks for the posts. I didn’t know that bobcats and lynx can be found in southern Ontario. We do have plenty of coyotes, wolves, coywolves and fox a few of which I see near our house from time to time. I’ll have to keep an eye out for the two cats, but I suspect they are much shyer of humans than the coyotes and fox are. Unfortunately, though the human population of southern Ontario’s Golden Horseshoe is exploding and displacing our wildlife; it’s a real shame.