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Bobcat   /bˈɑbkˌæt/   Listen
Bobcat

noun
1.
Small lynx of North America.  Synonyms: bay lynx, Lynx rufus.






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"Bobcat" Quotes from Famous Books



... "The bobcat and coon part is all O. K., Larry," he said; "but you're away off when you think we're going to rub up against a grizzly bear down in Florida. They have got a specimen of the breed here, but it's only a small black fellow, and not ...
— Chums in Dixie - or The Strange Cruise of a Motorboat • St. George Rathborne

... like to be far from water. Those trees are pretty well back from the pond, so I dug this canal, which brings the water almost to them. It makes it safer for me in case Old Man Coyote or Buster Bear or Yowler the Bobcat happens to be looking for a Beaver dinner. Also it makes it very much easier to get my logs and branches ...
— The Burgess Animal Book for Children • Thornton W. Burgess

... The little Bobcat and Canadian Lynx Just must be related (so everyone thinks). Except for their ears they're alike as two pins, And look every whit as if ...
— Animal Children - The Friends of the Forest and the Plain • Edith Brown Kirkwood

... sort were the order of the day in '49. Any ferocious encounter which would promulgate betting was countenanced, and even encouraged. There were dog fights, bull fights, bobcat or mountain lynx fights, and fights ...
— Down the Mother Lode • Vivia Hemphill

... catkin tassels. Bands of deer and elk began to drift back into the valley; the Bighorn eagerly forsook the heights. The few coyotes that had remained throughout the winter were joined by more of their kin; fresh bobcat tracks appeared daily. The mountain lions that had trailed the deer and elk down to warmer climes, returned close on their heels as their red records testified. On my rambles I often came upon the scenes of their kills; deer, elk and even wary sheep ...
— A Mountain Boyhood • Joe Mills



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