Posted on 03/28/2018 5:52:14 PM PDT by Rebelbase
Two bobcats fighting in a tree. Crank up the volume.
Roberta the local female bobcat comes up on our porch with her kit - looks for a treat, the folks usually have some old stew meat available.
Cougars?
At 0:08...creepy looking cat face. Reminds me of Predator from the Ah’nold movie.
Stay the hell away from those two. LOL.
Wow, that’s really amazing. They’re solitary critters, and nocturnal to boot. Incredibly rare to find two of them in the same vicinity in broad daylight, much less up a tree and fighting.
I already downloaded a copy of the video. I’ll strip the audio out of it (with Audacity) and the next time I’m out predator hunting with nothing particular going on, I’ll play that on my e-Caller and see if anybody answers. It’s a fair bet it will at least attract crows and woodpeckers because they’re both always on the lookout for a free meal.
/www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbhkXg9iFYA
Only one thing worse than these and even most bears wont mess with them. Wolverines.
Cats will just run from bears most of the time, but Wolverines will stand their ground and fight.
I’ve actually seen two bobcats have a fight in a tree in south Alabama. It lasted about 5 minutes. It is very intense and very loud. I watched it from about 30 feet away with an uncle.
That was great! Boy, are you right, the definition of “feisty”!
You misunderstood the request “post pictures of a cat fight on Free Republic”...
I just finished reading “Let Trump be Trump” and there was a scene on his plane where he had just done a campaign appearance, and was sitting in a chair on the plane reading a newspaper when two women began going at it in a loud argument.
They said Trump just looked over the top of the paper without changing expression, watched for a second and yelled out “Catfight!” and went right back to reading the paper!!
That just tickles the hell out of me!
Those are actually Canadian Lynx.
Here’s the link to National Geographic showing the video & identifying as lynx:
https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/03/animals-lynx-mating-fighting-conflict/
I first saw/hear the video on FB ..... photog’s comment:
“I had one of the most amazing experiences of my life watching 2 lynx mating/fighting with the male chasing the female up a tree twice but the female fighting him off! Here is a video I took of the whole ordeal out in the boreal forest near Grande Prairie,Alberta! Enjoy and feel free to Share!”
Those are not Bob Cat’s, those are Lynx.
“Those are not Bob Cat’s, those are Lynx.”
Agree. Although the bobcat is a member of the lynx family, these guys are bigger than most bobcats. And, paws are bigger in proportion to their bodies, tufts on ears more pronounced. We have lots of bobcats in our community as we also have lots of squirrels and cottontails. Easy living for our bobcats. Ours are smaller than those two in the video and appear less like a lynx. Live near Dallas metroplex.
thanks for vid- (but i can only hear it- can’t see it)- the only thing creepier than that is raccoons fighting- they sound like 5 different animals- pigs, monkeys- dogs fighting- cougars yowling- and i dunno what- a big foot maybe- (or what they claim are big foot sounds)- it was totally bizarre sounding and not something i would have wanted to hear in the woods after dark not knowing what was making the sounds lol
There are bobcats (not lynx) in my woods here in N. Idaho. Pound for pound they are probably the most vicious members of the cat family. They have a deep-throated growl when they don’t want you around. Found a dead deer fawn in our driveway one January with bobcat tracks all around it. The left shoulder had been consumed leaving the skin intact and the entire head was gone.
That being said, a cougar was collared north of Spokane a few days ago that weighed 197 lbs. That’s one big kitty!
Looks and sounds like siblings play fighting.
I’m about 300 miles west of you, our place has allot of Bob Cat’s on it. All Bob Cat’s get a free pass, Coyotes and Feral Hog’s are not so lucky. In 2010 I got 83 Coyotes and 47 Feral Hog’s, here it is 8 years later and I’m still having to battle them, shot 17 Yotes so far this year and 29 Feral Hog’s. The hogs are getting out of control.
“I’m about 300 miles west of you, our place has allot of Bob Cat’s on it. All Bob Cat’s get a free pass, Coyotes and Feral Hog’s are not so lucky. In 2010 I got 83 Coyotes and 47 Feral Hog’s, here it is 8 years later and I’m still having to battle them, shot 17 Yotes so far this year and 29 Feral Hog’s. The hogs are getting out of control.”
I’m in an unincorporated community surrounded by Lewisville, Plano, Carrollton on the south. It was originally the Bright Ranch, developer is the Bright family. Must say, they’ve done a good job. Anyway, as development continues to expand in the area wild life such as bobcats, coyotes, etc, are disrupted. The bobcats in particular seem to acclimate to the suburbs very well. In fact, we had a bunch of new litters this spring. As you, I kinda like having them around as they help control rabbit, squirrels, rats, mice, etc. besides, they’re kinda cool. However, ever once in awhile one of them will snatch someone’s little fluffy and cause a big dust up, lol! About those feral hogs, I’m sure you know better than me, they can have two sometimes three litters per year with an avg of about eight per I believe. So, I agree they’re breeding faster than they’re being killed. On my Leave out Quanah the owner lets us kill as many as we want. He also lets a guy keep hog traps on the property. I don’t know what the trapper does with the hogs.
From time to time we’ll eat the smaller hog’s in the 50 to 75 lb range, big one’s we just leave for the buzzards. Bob Cat’s and Fox adapt to city life pretty easy, yotes will hit the outskirts. I guess I learned a long time ago that if your going to have pets of the edible size it’s best to keep them inside. Years ago we had a Horned Owl try and grab the wife’s Yorkie while it was in the back yard. My Parsons Russell Terrorist put an end to that real quick.
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