What is this animal? Game cam pic
#266
Join Date: Aug 2004
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RE: What is this animal? Game cam pic
I showed the picture to my Wildlife ecology professor and he said it is definitely a bobcat.
-Short tail
-If you look close its belly hair is spotted and slightly shaggy
-The reason its head looks like that of a cougar is because it is doing something called "flehmen"where they activate an organ just behind the incisors to detect pheromones
my professor's two cents.
-Short tail
-If you look close its belly hair is spotted and slightly shaggy
-The reason its head looks like that of a cougar is because it is doing something called "flehmen"where they activate an organ just behind the incisors to detect pheromones
my professor's two cents.
#269
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Ohio
Posts: 114
RE: What is this animal? Game cam pic
First of all a bobcat is in the family of the lynx and thats why most of you are mistaking it for a lynx. Second the canadian lynx is extinct from PA. So in order for that to be a lynx they have to be making a comeback that no one knows about. Here is another picture of a bobcat. Showing clearing the same size and characteristics of the other picture. Notice the longer tail and the tips of the ears. Exactly the same