Imagine you are sitting on a frosty mountain top in the Adirondacks. Suddenly there is a loud roar and two medium-sized cats jump over the top of the mountain. The animals are white with black spots and stripes. Suddenly you recognize the animal. It is a bobcat! Luckily you have your camera. As you take pictures you learn many things about the bobcat such as, the bobcat weighs twenty pounds. It is two feet tall. Bobcats are twenty-five to thirty-five inches long. It can run 30 miles per hour. The colors are gray and the fur thick in the summer and rusty brown and the fur shorter with short spotted tails. They have sharp teeth. Bobcats resemble cats only bigger. Bobcats are shy and also curious. Bobcats have excellent sight and hearing. They have a black tip on their ears . The tracks are two inches wide and long.

They are found in Southern Canada and at the top of the United States of America. Bobcats live in forests, deserts mountains, prairies, swamps and make their homes in dens and fallen trees.

Bobcats are carnivorous. They eat rabbits and other small animals. Bobcats use their jaws and claws and attack at night when their prey is asleep. Bobcats only eat three pounds of meat a day.

It takes about sixty-two days for a bobcat to have one to seven babies. Bobcats can live to be twenty-five years old in captivity, but only about six years old in the wild. Extremely hard winters are tough on bobcats. Smaller bobcats can starve in hard winters.