My favorite animal is the Jaguar. Its like a mini tiger, with the ferocity of a lion, probably the most powerful big cat in the world on a pound for pound basis. Stunningly beautiful, like an even more beautiful version of a tiger - I just love them. But ask me tomorrow and perhaps my faveorite animal is the Tiger. It changes between those two, its usually the Jaguar though.
Leopards are my favorite. They can live alongside humans, larger predators and pack predators and still thrive. They are among the best athlets and physically gifted. They are versatile. They have a high power to weight ratio and can defend themselves against just about any land predator they come across. And they don't need help from anyone to do what they do. They are the most underrated bigcat.
The difference is when you see a bobcat in the wild you say to yourself "wow, cool!!!!". When you see a cougar in the wild you say ,"hail mary full of grace...." Of course that is in the off chance you saw the cougar coming.
While photographing Grizzly bears in B.C. a few years back I asked the guides if there were cougars in the area. They said yes, as they recorded a large cat that works the area on trail cams. I asked them if they'd ever run across one, as I'd almost run over one in a vehicle once, near our rural home in Kansas, and a friend's hunting acquaintance had to kill one, sadly, that was stalking him as he was bow hunting, when it was close enough to spring. The nearest guide looked at me and said they'd never seen one in the wild up close, but then added with a wry smile "of course, when a human does see one in the wild, it's usually too late." We have very few sightings here in Kansas, but my neighbor thinks we have one that moves through the waterways along Salt Creek out behind our property, has seen tracks, and has recorded the night sounds. I haven't heard them, so can't confirm. I've seen bob cats and good sized foxes and we're near two large lakes and have lots of water and game in the region and only a hand full of small town less than a square mile in size in a 30 mile radius. So it's possible, and there is a cow/calf operation a half mile away, with young calves this time of year. But I haven't heard anyone else report seeing them and my trail cams one show me normal feral cats and the occasional bob cat.
Bobcats are also known as red lynx. It’s weird as we have a black bobcat in the front yard and puma have a path through our side yard. Both can take down a deer.
There's a few ways to tell a Bobcat from a Lynx 1. Size: Some confusion is height, Lynx are slightly taller than a Bobcat, both being around 2 feet tall, but the Lynx can be twice as heavy, usually around 30-60 pounds while Bobcats are 15-30 pounds max. 2. Cheek Fur: Lynxes fur on their cheeks come to a straight point, sometimes curving away from it face, while the Bobcats cheek Fur tend to curve around it's face. 3. Coat patterns: Lynxes coat come in a tan to silvery plain color, while Bobcats coats comes in silvery, tan and brown and spotted. (This is the easiest way to tell them apart) Spots, Bobcat. No spots, Lynx. 4. Ear tufts: Lynxes ear tufts are more prominent and longer, even as a kitten. Bobcat ear tufts are short, almost unnoticeable until up close and don't appear until adulthood 5. Tail: Lynxes tails are usually black tipped and a little shorter while Bobcat tails, slightly longer come in black, but with a white tipped end. 6. Legs and paws: Bobcats have smaller paws and longer legs, Lynx has big furry paws, long front legs and short back legs. Hopefully this helps. This is a comparison of the American Bobcat and Canadian Lynx.
😂 I wouldn’t worry about all the scientific terms and “if I really scared off a cougar with bobcat and/or mountain Lion UA-cam tips” because you’d be a fool.
Oregon: Saw what I thought was a stray cat on the trail. I started talking to it, finally realized it was a bobcat when it got up and left LoL it let me talk to it but it didn't talk back. Am really wondering if it crossed with a stray house cat though. I have seen bobcat before that were unmistakable one was pretty darn big and majestic. Also saw a cougar a couple miles from there walked up the road towards the car looking right into my eyes when I fumbled the door handle it took off. Also ran across bear around there. Amazing creatures. They're right to be scared of people. ✌️
I new most of this, but it helped me win an argument against someone that said bobcats and mountain lions were basically the same. Thanks convenient zoology video!
I had a large cat in my yard one morning it was not a bobcat or mountain lion. It's body looked like an african serval cat with a large trunk, long neck and small head but the color was solid gray with a white chest and the tail was long like a mountain lions. I've always thought it was either a bobcat mountain lion cross or an escaped serval cross that someone's pet.
As a human, you ABSOLUTELY don't cross a Moutain Lion. But you have to work pretty damn hard to have a Bobcat EVER bother with you. I mean, like, literally grab it. They have ZERO interest in humans. Consider it your lucky day when you see one. Saying goes, if you see one, it's because it let you. Amazing animal.
@@assortedanimalsonline Grab it? I don't think anybody ever could just grab any wild animal. A bobcat would be way to fast to be able to grab. I would challenge you to even gran a house cat that doesn't want to be grabbed. You would never catch it. Nobody would. Not even the fastest human in the world.
Mountain Lions are majestic & simply beautiful 🥰. I wouldn’t last 5 seconds if I encountered one in the wild though; I’m so much in awe, I’d probably try to make friends & wind up as lunch.
Saw a Bobcat that was tan like a cougar and was taller than any Bobcat I’ve seen and I didn’t see any spots at all this was in Southeast TX PORT ARTHUR where IM from it looked very different from the Bobcats I usually see it looked like a hybrid if I was asked to guess
A healthy human being will pretty much always be able to overpower a bobcat......a human vs a big and aggressive Mountain Lion (individuals DO vary)......thats gonna be a BAD day for the human being - if it actually attacks, I think youd be pretty lucky to survive it and in a pretty bad way if you DID survive. Edit: If anyone is wondering why you compare these two seemingly quite different cats, I cant speak for the uploader, but I would imagine its because of the shared distribution/territory.
Lions, buffalo, and antelope are all found only in both Africa and Asia, therefore it is actually misleadingly incorrect to call a puma a mountain lion, misleadingly incorrect to call a bison a buffalo, and misleadingly incorrect to call a pronghorn an antelope, the Puma (Puma concolor) is actually more closely related to cheetahs (genus Acinonyx) and the jaguarundi (Herpailurus yagouaroundi), bison (genus Bison) are a genus of true cattle (subtribe Bovina) with the closest living relative of both the European Bison (Bison bonasus) and the American Bison (Bison bison) being the Yak (Poephagus grunniens), while buffalo are an entirely distinct subtribe (Bubalina) from the true cattle (subtribe Bovina), and the word "antelope" refers correctly and exclusively to the taxa Tetracerus, Tragelaphini, Hippotraginae, Peleinae, Reduncinae, Antilopinae, Cephalophinae, and Neotraginae of the family Bovidae, while the Pronghorn (Antilocapra americana) is the sole extant member of a separate family known as Antilocapridae, which is actually more closely related to giraffids than to bovids, making the giraffes (genus Giraffa), Okapi (Okapia johnstoni), and Pronghorn (Antilocapra americana) the only extant members of the broader superfamily Giraffoidea.
The reason its called a mountain lion is because they resemble a female lion. Other animals are named for not being that animal but resemble them, such as a Flying Fox, Rhinoceros Beetle, Leopard Frog, Bat Falcon so on so forth
I seen a Bob cat that I though for sure was a mountain lion based solely on size. The thing was huge. Needless to say I made sure not to cross paths with it.
Some Bobcats can get big, but don't get much bigger than 30 pounds, A Canadian Lynx can get up to 70 pounds. If it had a spotted coat, it was a Bobcat, if not it's a Lynx.
Was way too close to a panther in Florida. It was in a country club that borders the Everglades. Very early, very big. My what huge paws you have......
I have a female mountain lion looking for a mate out on my 20 acres for the past 4 days. She sounds a little scary. Was hoping to get goats soon and now I'm not so sure.
Would you believe we have both in my area near Garden of the Gods in Colorado Springs. I've seen both, and Fish and wildlife dept says if you have an abundace of deer you're going to have them. I watched one for a week sunning on a neighbors roof of his loafing shed. They are beautiful and not afraid on humans.
No mention of which one is probably wiser. Also, no mention on if we can call them "Bobcats" if we haven't been formally introduced. Should we call them "Robert-cats" until then? Also, also, can a Canadian Lynx successfully mate with a Eurasian Lynx, and produce viable off-spring?
I'm going to go with Bob. They can call me what ever they want and I most likely will not correct them. Thanks for your feedback and thanks for watching! 🐾
I have seen way more mountain lions than I have bobcats. This guy is saying the mountain lions are very rarely ever seen and that they don't venture into human territory. which made me laugh because it's BS. They had a mountain lion wander into the middle of Tucson and wound up at one of the hospitals.
"it is thought that bobcats are probably the most similar relative to mountain lions" Where did you get that nonsense? Did you just make it up on the fly? First of all, in the age of DNA sequencing, there is no such thing as "it is thought", as if there is room for debate. These things are now determined conclusively. Second and more to the point, it's not even close to correct. The closest relatives of mountain lions are jaguarundis. Until a few years ago they were even classified in the same genus. Their next closest relatives are cheetahs. And bobcats are far from next in line; about a dozen other cat species are closer relatives of mountain lions than bobcats, including your pet kitty cat at home. The closest relatives of bobcats are the three other lynx species. Seriously, do you just make up your own facts when creating informational videos without even bothering to look them up?
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My favorite animal is the Jaguar. Its like a mini tiger, with the ferocity of a lion, probably the most powerful big cat in the world on a pound for pound basis. Stunningly beautiful, like an even more beautiful version of a tiger - I just love them. But ask me tomorrow and perhaps my faveorite animal is the Tiger. It changes between those two, its usually the Jaguar though.
@@SA77888 They are both magnificent creatures!
@@assortedanimalsonline I agree - thank you for the reply and keep up the good work.
Leopards are my favorite. They can live alongside humans, larger predators and pack predators and still thrive. They are among the best athlets and physically gifted. They are versatile. They have a high power to weight ratio and can defend themselves against just about any land predator they come across. And they don't need help from anyone to do what they do. They are the most underrated bigcat.
@@thetruthrevealed445 Extremely successful and adaptable cats.
The difference is when you see a bobcat in the wild you say to yourself "wow, cool!!!!". When you see a cougar in the wild you say ,"hail mary full of grace...."
Of course that is in the off chance you saw the cougar coming.
You nailed it! Haha.
While photographing Grizzly bears in B.C. a few years back I asked the guides if there were cougars in the area. They said yes, as they recorded a large cat that works the area on trail cams. I asked them if they'd ever run across one, as I'd almost run over one in a vehicle once, near our rural home in Kansas, and a friend's hunting acquaintance had to kill one, sadly, that was stalking him as he was bow hunting, when it was close enough to spring. The nearest guide looked at me and said they'd never seen one in the wild up close, but then added with a wry smile "of course, when a human does see one in the wild, it's usually too late." We have very few sightings here in Kansas, but my neighbor thinks we have one that moves through the waterways along Salt Creek out behind our property, has seen tracks, and has recorded the night sounds. I haven't heard them, so can't confirm. I've seen bob cats and good sized foxes and we're near two large lakes and have lots of water and game in the region and only a hand full of small town less than a square mile in size in a 30 mile radius. So it's possible, and there is a cow/calf operation a half mile away, with young calves this time of year. But I haven't heard anyone else report seeing them and my trail cams one show me normal feral cats and the occasional bob cat.
I've never confused mountain lions with bob cats. It's bob cats and lynx that are hard to tell apart.
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Bobcats are also known as red lynx. It’s weird as we have a black bobcat in the front yard and puma have a path through our side yard. Both can take down a deer.
There's a few ways to tell a Bobcat from a Lynx
1. Size: Some confusion is height, Lynx are slightly taller than a Bobcat, both being around 2 feet tall, but the Lynx can be twice as heavy, usually around 30-60 pounds while Bobcats are 15-30 pounds max.
2. Cheek Fur: Lynxes fur on their cheeks come to a straight point, sometimes curving away from it face, while the Bobcats cheek Fur tend to curve around it's face.
3. Coat patterns: Lynxes coat come in a tan to silvery plain color, while Bobcats coats comes in silvery, tan and brown and spotted. (This is the easiest way to tell them apart) Spots, Bobcat. No spots, Lynx.
4. Ear tufts: Lynxes ear tufts are more prominent and longer, even as a kitten. Bobcat ear tufts are short, almost unnoticeable until up close and don't appear until adulthood
5. Tail: Lynxes tails are usually black tipped and a little shorter while Bobcat tails, slightly longer come in black, but with a white tipped end.
6. Legs and paws: Bobcats have smaller paws and longer legs, Lynx has big furry paws, long front legs and short back legs.
Hopefully this helps. This is a comparison of the American Bobcat and Canadian Lynx.
😂 I wouldn’t worry about all the scientific terms and “if I really scared off a cougar with bobcat and/or mountain Lion UA-cam tips” because you’d be a fool.
Bobcats are just a subspecies of lynx (scientific name: Lynx Rufus) so yes, telling them apart can be difficult.
Literally everything except actual audio of the sounds they make. As I'm trying to identify what the hell charged at me in pure darkness tonight
You can check out my bobcat sounds video to hear a bobcat. 🐾
Oregon: Saw what I thought was a stray cat on the trail. I started talking to it, finally realized it was a bobcat when it got up and left LoL it let me talk to it but it didn't talk back. Am really wondering if it crossed with a stray house cat though. I have seen bobcat before that were unmistakable one was pretty darn big and majestic. Also saw a cougar a couple miles from there walked up the road towards the car looking right into my eyes when I fumbled the door handle it took off. Also ran across bear around there. Amazing creatures. They're right to be scared of people. ✌️
Hey Paul! Thanks for sharing. I’ve only come across a cougar once here in Texas. Awesome animals. 🐾
I have always adored cats all shapes and sizes I think they're the most beautiful graceful creatures on Earth
Hey, Dorothy! Yes! They are magical. 🐱
I new most of this, but it helped me win an argument against someone that said bobcats and mountain lions were basically the same. Thanks convenient zoology video!
Glad to be of service! 🐾
I had a large cat in my yard one morning it was not a bobcat or mountain lion. It's body looked like an african serval cat with a large trunk, long neck and small head but the color was solid gray with a white chest and the tail was long like a mountain lions. I've always thought it was either a bobcat mountain lion cross or an escaped serval cross that someone's pet.
That sounds wild! 🐾
Lynx maybe?
@@savalexander5018depends on where they live! If it’s remote Canada I’d believe that
As a human, you ABSOLUTELY don't cross a Moutain Lion. But you have to work pretty damn hard to have a Bobcat EVER bother with you. I mean, like, literally grab it. They have ZERO interest in humans. Consider it your lucky day when you see one. Saying goes, if you see one, it's because it let you. Amazing animal.
They are definitely amazing! Thanks for your feedback 🐾
@@assortedanimalsonline Grab it? I don't think anybody ever could just grab any wild animal. A bobcat would be way to fast to be able to grab. I would challenge you to even gran a house cat that doesn't want to be grabbed. You would never catch it. Nobody would. Not even the fastest human in the world.
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Mexican Jaguar has the largest prints of any cat in the US. They’re in SE Arizona
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Mountain Lions are majestic & simply beautiful 🥰. I wouldn’t last 5 seconds if I encountered one in the wild though; I’m so much in awe, I’d probably try to make friends & wind up as lunch.
They are definitely awesome! But I agree, I wouldn't want to come face to face with one. 🐾
Thank you for these videos.
Thank you for watching!
@@assortedanimalsonline Yw my friend.
@survivalwildanimallife This is your channel?
both cute
Cute in a murder mittens kind of way? Haha
@@assortedanimalsonline Cute as I would like one as a pet would have to have from a little cub kitten though
Saw a Bobcat that was tan like a cougar and was taller than any Bobcat I’ve seen and I didn’t see any spots at all this was in Southeast TX PORT ARTHUR where IM from it looked very different from the Bobcats I usually see it looked like a hybrid if I was asked to guess
That's cool!
Could it have been a very young cougar?
A healthy human being will pretty much always be able to overpower a bobcat......a human vs a big and aggressive Mountain Lion (individuals DO vary)......thats gonna be a BAD day for the human being - if it actually attacks, I think youd be pretty lucky to survive it and in a pretty bad way if you DID survive. Edit: If anyone is wondering why you compare these two seemingly quite different cats, I cant speak for the uploader, but I would imagine its because of the shared distribution/territory.
If that Bobcat launches itself onto a healthy human you may survive but that little Ninja will have you messed up big time!!
@@fenderboy68 I agree, a bobcat could certainly mess you up pretty badly.
Lions, buffalo, and antelope are all found only in both Africa and Asia, therefore it is actually misleadingly incorrect to call a puma a mountain lion, misleadingly incorrect to call a bison a buffalo, and misleadingly incorrect to call a pronghorn an antelope, the Puma (Puma concolor) is actually more closely related to cheetahs (genus Acinonyx) and the jaguarundi (Herpailurus yagouaroundi), bison (genus Bison) are a genus of true cattle (subtribe Bovina) with the closest living relative of both the European Bison (Bison bonasus) and the American Bison (Bison bison) being the Yak (Poephagus grunniens), while buffalo are an entirely distinct subtribe (Bubalina) from the true cattle (subtribe Bovina), and the word "antelope" refers correctly and exclusively to the taxa Tetracerus, Tragelaphini, Hippotraginae, Peleinae, Reduncinae, Antilopinae, Cephalophinae, and Neotraginae of the family Bovidae, while the Pronghorn (Antilocapra americana) is the sole extant member of a separate family known as Antilocapridae, which is actually more closely related to giraffids than to bovids, making the giraffes (genus Giraffa), Okapi (Okapia johnstoni), and Pronghorn (Antilocapra americana) the only extant members of the broader superfamily Giraffoidea.
Again, thanks for your feedback!
The reason its called a mountain lion is because they resemble a female lion. Other animals are named for not being that animal but resemble them, such as a Flying Fox, Rhinoceros Beetle, Leopard Frog, Bat Falcon so on so forth
Wegmans hell are you talking about
I thought they were about the same size. Good to know! 👌👌
Yes, they have quite the size difference!
Which is more dangerous? Well if you are a mouse I say the bobcat.
I would hate to be a mouse in a bobcat den!
Land of the bobcats, nice!
Check out the documentary ua-cam.com/video/UqvHxGWXgwE/v-deo.html
I seen a Bob cat that I though for sure was a mountain lion based solely on size. The thing was huge. Needless to say I made sure not to cross paths with it.
Definitely better to keep your distance!
Some Bobcats can get big, but don't get much bigger than 30 pounds, A Canadian Lynx can get up to 70 pounds. If it had a spotted coat, it was a Bobcat, if not it's a Lynx.
@@oofmaster4312 this is Southern California. I don’t think we have Canadian lynx here.
@@MegaRussell12 Then it's a chonky Bobcat
@@oofmaster4312 definitely big enough where I didn’t want any part of it.
Do they purr?
Yes, they do! 🐾
Mountain Lion wins. But bobcat looks more badass
I totally agree. 🐾
No need to be worried of a Bobcat being dangerous.
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Fun Fact: Bobcats are the smallest cat that can kill an adult doe.
Until my kitty gets there
Was way too close to a panther in Florida. It was in a country club that borders the Everglades. Very early, very big. My what huge paws you have......
Better to eat you with! Haha 🐾
I have a female mountain lion looking for a mate out on my 20 acres for the past 4 days. She sounds a little scary. Was hoping to get goats soon and now I'm not so sure.
Maybe goats and a big dog! 🐾
Would you believe we have both in my area near Garden of the Gods in Colorado Springs. I've seen both, and Fish and wildlife dept says if you have an abundace of deer you're going to have them. I watched one for a week sunning on a neighbors roof of his loafing shed. They are beautiful and not afraid on humans.
Hey James! They are definitely beautiful cats 🐾
Mountain lion wins because it’s bigger
I agree! 🐾
Awesome🐾 upload 🐾 🍖🍖🍖🍖🍖
Hey Benny! Glad you enjoyed it. 🐾
No mention of which one is probably wiser.
Also, no mention on if we can call them "Bobcats" if we haven't been formally introduced. Should we call them "Robert-cats" until then?
Also, also, can a Canadian Lynx successfully mate with a Eurasian Lynx, and produce viable off-spring?
I'm going to go with Bob. They can call me what ever they want and I most likely will not correct them. Thanks for your feedback and thanks for watching! 🐾
I have seen way more mountain lions than I have bobcats. This guy is saying the mountain lions are very rarely ever seen and that they don't venture into human territory. which made me laugh because it's BS. They had a mountain lion wander into the middle of Tucson and wound up at one of the hospitals.
Thanks for your feedback
No sounds of the 2 different animals
You can check out my video on Bobcat sounds here: ua-cam.com/video/Gm_yO2SGgl4/v-deo.htmlsi=iGW6qUrsQd6kq_oQ Cougar sounds coming soon! 🐾
Cousins
Haha, pretty much.
Fun fact, typing "Cougar" into PornHub has *nothing* to do with felines.
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Wtf?
"it is thought that bobcats are probably the most similar relative to mountain lions"
Where did you get that nonsense? Did you just make it up on the fly?
First of all, in the age of DNA sequencing, there is no such thing as "it is thought", as if there is room for debate. These things are now determined conclusively.
Second and more to the point, it's not even close to correct. The closest relatives of mountain lions are jaguarundis. Until a few years ago they were even classified in the same genus. Their next closest relatives are cheetahs. And bobcats are far from next in line; about a dozen other cat species are closer relatives of mountain lions than bobcats, including your pet kitty cat at home. The closest relatives of bobcats are the three other lynx species.
Seriously, do you just make up your own facts when creating informational videos without even bothering to look them up?
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