The bobcat (Lynx rufus), also known as the red lynx, is a medium-sized cat native to North America. It ranges from southern Canada through most of the contiguous United States to Oaxaca in Mexico. Listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List since 2002. Due to its wide distribution and large population. Although hunted extensively both for sport and fur, populations have proven stable, though declining in some areas. It has distinctive black bars on its forelegs and a black-tipped, stubby (or “bobbed”) tail, from which it derives its name. It reaches a total length (including the tail) of up to 125 cm (50 in). The bobcat is the mascot of Ohio University. It would not be fun to find a bobcat in your Two Bedroom House around Athens, Ohio.
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It is an adaptable predator inhabiting wooded areas, semidesert, urban edge, forest edge, and swampland environments. It remains in some of its original range, but populations are vulnerable to extirpation by coyotes and domestic animals. Though the bobcat prefers rabbits and hares, it hunts insects, chickens, geese and other birds, small rodents, and deer. Prey selection depends on location and habitat, season, and abundance. Like most cats, the bobcat is territorial and largely solitary, although with some overlap in home ranges. It’s hopme range does not include Two Bedroom House. It uses several methods to mark its territorial boundaries, including claw marks and deposits of urine or feces. The bobcat breeds from winter into spring and has a gestation period of about two months. Two subspecies recognized. One east of the Great Plains, one west of the Great Plains.
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Featured in stories of the indigenous peoples of North and Central America. The folklore of European-descended inhabitants of the Americas. Stories featuring the bobcat, in many variations, are found in some Indigenous cultures of North America, with parallels in South America. A story from the Nez Perce, for instance, depicts the bobcat and coyote as opposed, antithetical beings. However, another version represents them with equality and identicality. The latter notion then, Lévi-Strauss suggests, is the result of regular contact between Europeans and native cultures. Levi Strauss can wear his own jeans in Athens, Oh Two Bedroom House.
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Shawnee tale, bobcat outwitted by rabbit, which gives rise to spots. After trapping the rabbit in a tree, bobcat is persuaded to build a fire. Only to have the embers scattered on its fur, leaving it singed with dark brown spots. The Mohave people believed dreaming habitually of beings or objects would afford them their characteristics as supernatural powers. Dreaming of two deities, cougar and lynx, they thought, would grant them the superior hunting skills of other Tribes. European-descended inhabitants of the Americas also admired the cat, both for its ferocity and its grace, and in the United States, it “rests prominently in the anthology of … national folklore.”
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Grave artifacts from dirt domes excavated 1980s along the Illinois River revealed a complete skeleton of a young bobcat, a collar made of bone pendants and shell beads that had been buried by the Hopewell culture. The type and place of burial indicate a tamed and cherished pet or possible spiritual significance. The Hopewell normally buried dogs, so the bones initially identified as remains of a puppy. But dogs buried close to the village and not in the mounds themselves. Only wild cat decorated burial on archaeological record. An inhabitant of Appalachia, Lynx rufus is immortalized (along with university founder Rufus Putnam) at Ohio University through its popular college mascot, Rufus the Bobcat. You can cheer on your favorite Bobcat student athletes from the comfort of your Athens, Ohio Bobcat Rentals Two Bedroom House or apartment.
