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To: CIB-173RDABN

The other thing they won’t tell you is that domestic cats simply filled the niche previously held by bobcats. When bobcat populations fell because of hunting, trapping, and farmers shooting them on sight, the domestics took over. Now, there are many stories of wild bobcat populations rebounding, and gradually adapting to human presence, and moving back into urban areas.
Some of them (such as the bobcats at River Legacy Park in Arlington TX), are showing initial signs of self-domestication.


17 posted on 05/27/2017 6:53:39 AM PDT by Kriggerel ("All great truths are hard and bitter, but lies... are sweeter than wild honey" (Ragnar Redbeard))
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Same thing in the Plano-Richardson corridor. As the Asian restaurants have expanded, Bobs have moved into the area are are beginning to self-domesticate.


35 posted on 05/27/2017 7:52:15 AM PDT by PAR35
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