Bobcats are adept climbers and have tough paws. Combined with thick fur and overall agility, they’re able to maneuver in and around the saguaro’s prickly needles.
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Animals, Cats, Nature
Cat Blogging: Cat Domestication
by JOHN ADAMS •
Cats, Nature
Friday Catblogging: Utah bobcat released back into the wild
by JOHN ADAMS •
Erin Alberty reports A Utah bobcat named Mr. Murderbritches was just released back into the wild — and the video is going viral: A Utah bobcat now known as Mr. Murderbritches is rapidly gaining notoriety on social media as a video circulates of Murderbritches snarling and swiping at wildlife officers who try to free him…
Cats, Nature, Television
Friday Catblogging: Super Cats on PBS
by JOHN ADAMS •
Cats, Nature
Friday Catblogging: Cougar on Wildlife Camera in Upper Peninsula
by JOHN ADAMS •
Photo: Michigan Department of Natural Resources
Via Cougar spotted on [Michigan] DNR camera in the Upper Peninsula.
Cats, Nature, Weird Tales
Friday Catblogging: Not Humans After All
by JOHN ADAMS •
A years-long search for a serial cat killer has found unexpected culprits. Amy Held reports London Police Outfoxed, Abandon 3-Year Search For Serial Cat Killer: It was a damp and dreary November nearly three years ago, when the London Metropolitan Police decided it was time to act. People kept calling with reports of grisly findings:…
Animals, Cats, Nature
Friday Catblogging: Lynx
by JOHN ADAMS •
The trial reintroduction of six Eurasian lynx in the Kielder Forest in Northumberland has become more likely as 100% of the landowners approached so far have given their approval. Read the full story: https://t.co/AdtJONrThM ? Neville Buck pic.twitter.com/5avhPHXpCr — BBC Wildlife (@WildlifeMag) August 14, 2018
Cats, Nature, Wisconsin
Friday Catblogging: Milwaukee-Area Cougar
by JOHN ADAMS •
Henry J. Morgan reports The Wisconsin cougar has returned. This time reportedly in Lisbon as several residents see the wildcat: According to the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, the cougar (puma concolor) is one of three wild cats native to the state, along with the bobcat and Canada lynx. It is the largest wildcat north…
Cats, Nature
Friday Catblogging: These Wildcats Need the Forest to Survive
by JOHN ADAMS •
Animals, Cats, Nature
Friday Catblogging: The Poachers’ Fate
by JOHN ADAMS •
Embed from Getty Images In a stunning instance of the animal kingdom taking karma into its own hands – or rather, paws – at least three poachers were mauled to death and then eaten by lions earlier this week after they illegally entered the Sibuya Game Reserve in South Africa to hunt rhinos. “They strayed…
Cats, Nature
Friday Catblogging: Jaguars
by JOHN ADAMS •
Nadia Drake observes that The Jaguar Is Made for the Age of Humans (“A writer comes face-to-face with the cat deep in the Amazon jungle and left with a new understanding of its surprising resilience to poaching and habitat loss”): The Ese’Eja, indigenous to this area of Peru, say that the jaguar only shows himself to…
Animals, Cats, Conservation, Nature
Friday Catblogging: Can Humans and Lions Get Along?
by JOHN ADAMS •
“Lions are really causing us havoc,” laments an African pastoralist in Nani Walker and Alan Toth’s short documentary, Living with Lions. The film chronicles the conflict between lions and humans in Laikipia County, Kenya, where drought and urbanization have pushed people and wildlife into closer contact. Conservationists attempt to mitigate the encounters, which often begin…
Animals, Cats, Nature
Friday Catblogging: Suspected Poacher Eaten By Lions In South Africa
by JOHN ADAMS •
Animals, Cats, Nature, Wisconsin
Friday Catblogging: Cougar sighting verified in Washington County
by JOHN ADAMS •
Contact(s): Scott Walter, DNR Large Carnivore Specialist, 608-267-7865 or Dianne Robinson, Wildlife Biologist, 262-424-9827 MADISON- Video footage of a large cat submitted by landowners in Washington County has been verified by Department of Natural Resources biologists as a cougar. The animal was recorded on a security camera during the early morning hours of Feb. 7…