#0206 · 🦊 mammals

Bobcat

🇳🇱 Rode Lynx ·Lynx rufus

LCleast concern 🦊 Mammals 📍 outside Europe

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what is it?

8 million years ago (AEO). Containing 12 recognized subspecies, it ranges from southern Canada to central Mexico, including most of the contiguous United States. The bobcat is an adaptable predator that inhabits wooded areas, as well as semidesert, urban edge, forest edge, and swampland environments. It remains in some of its original range, but populations are vulnerable to local...

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 56,254iNaturalist observations
weight 310 gadult, up to
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
56,254 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Weighs only about 310 g.
Scientifically named by Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber in 1777 (249 years ago).