You gotta see this!! I took this video several years ago of a Huge Bobcat Chasing a Squirrel up and down a tree! one of the coolest things I've ever seen in the woods!
Amazing footage. The squirrel is able to run down the tree much faster and is confident enough to trash talk the bobcat. But the amount of energy and athleticism the bobcat puts into the hunt is also impressive and with no payoff. Life in the forest is tough.
This is by far some of the most amazing footage of cats I've ever seen. I live in NY and people are generally terrified of BobCats despite there never being any reports of attacks or anything like that. The size of this guy did amaze me though ! When he's vertical on that tree he looked like a Mountain Lion. I know the cops in Upstate NY get calls all the times of escaped Zoo lions and Mountain Lions creeping around and it's really only a Bobcat and like in this video, once they see a human they take off.
Actually I saw a bobcat vs. Squirrel video before and the Bobcat got the squirrel on three separate occasions but for some odd reason the squirrel was able to get away the first two times but in the end Bobcat finally got him all the way
@@Counter-Intuitive - I've got a cat and had cats. 3 have passed away. They are very athletic and agile and a bobcat is just a bigger, pumped up on steroids version of a domestic cat.
I have seen a leopard going just as fast up literally running up the tree as if the world was 90 degrees sideways at about the same speed as running on flat terrain. But even more shocking, the monkey trying to escape jumped off the tree and the leopard also jumped from a good 20 meters to the ground ! and immediately chased the monkey who couldn't escape any further.
@@heavymetaloutdoors9552 Squirrels can run down a tree, cats have to back down. I had a bird hunting cat, he took 2 small leaps to a tree, 1 huge up it, then a hop up from there and paw reaching up, the birds coun't believe it either, one got its feathers brushed and they all saw him coming. 12 feet up in a flash. I saw a cougar hunting squirrels up in trees at night, cougar won, bobcat looks slow and clumsy there compared to that 400 pounds jumping from branch to branch 30 feet up. Just the noise of the claws going into the wood was amazing!
Dude that’s got to be some of the best wildlife hunting footage I’ve ever seen. I’ve always been warned about cats climbing but I didn’t know they could get up a tree that quick.
And the scariest part is Black Panthers, Leopards, Pumas, and all of those big cats are the best tree climbers. Just think, they carry their 175 pound kills up trees so no other big cat can take it and then they hang it on a branch and can eat for two days or more.
@@heavymetaloutdoors9552 squirrel have weird psychology. Their biggest foes are other squirrels and i believe they treat predators like rival squirrels.
1 squirrel won my speedster of the year award, they like going fast! 2nd place was a raven diving like a falcon to gain incredible speed, glided just above the trees, then one winged next updraft and had to break to poke the turkey vulture he was chasing away Red squirrel glides down 45o slope in my backyard slick ice after a rain and freeze, sister is well behind so she uses 4 paws to gain speed the whole way down, the hairs on her was compressed on her body and face by the wind, so funny!!! looking skinny for a moment.
I thought the same thing...thats the biggest bobcat that ive seen in the woods and he burned a lot of calories chasing the squirrel. :) Thank you for watching
Vance Hammontree yes the canopy there would afford easy exit for the squirrel in any direction it chose. i likewise can’t think of any explanation but that the squirrel felt so secure it was messing with the bob cats head.
During season squirrels are territorial of their trees and fight off other squirrels. They will often stand up to other creatures that try to muscle in.
@@teeroux yes i think too that squirrel interact a lot with other rival squirrels and eventually use the same behavior with other animals even predators.
Here's the extreme advantage that cagey little squirrel had over the bobcat. The bobcat was able to climb upward with lightning like speed but had to take it's time reversing it's course to come back down to regroup for another attack. The squirrel however can climb downward with it's face/head looking downward due to it's claws/ankles being able to rotate 180 degrees where it can grip the tree bark as though it was climbing upward as well. Cats are all great climbers going up but this is why you'll see a cat get stuck in a tree on occasion because they don't have that same mechanism in their claws a squirrel does. Cats might be king on the ground but squirrels rule the roost when it comes to scurrying around in a tree,, they can afford to laugh at anything trying to run them down in the climate they alone own. Squirrels own the tree line & can literally run a circle around anything foolish or hungry enough to try to catch them..
LOL I know right :) The Squirrel could have moved from tree to tree to get away but stayed and Played and laughed at the bobcat :) Thank you for watching
Heavy Metal Outdoors “that squirrel 🐿 was probably tough and tasteless anyway. And I just wanted to play tag with him. And sharpen my claws on the tree, if I wanted to I could have caught it,” says the bobcat.
My personal experience with squirrels is that they are proud little creatures and that it indeed was savoring its victory over the cat. Squirrel are well practiced at chasing each other up and down trees at dizzying speed (they are the only creature to run down trees head first). The bobcat although surprisingly fast running up in a straight line is slow when it tries going round the tree bark and hopeless going down. But the squirrel biggest weakness is once they panic they make huge mistakes and that only works when they are ambushed. Once they are aware of the foe and calm down, and on the tree, they fear nobody except a hawk that will panic them. Once i jogged in the forest and squirrel runs almost into my feet from panic.
Thank you so much for this event . I laughed at this bobcat and the sream of this squirell looks like a mockery to this marvellous creature. Thank you again from a cat lover.
Riveting footage. First time ever seen a bobcat retreat on such a focused hunt. Perhaps, there will be a sequel, part 2 when the bobcat comes back from his National Geographic star trailer in this wonderful video. Gives you a real feel for the agility, speed, and relentless focus of these cats. Perhaps from the bobcat's vantage point, it's just sport and instinct. Thank you for sharing with viewers worldwide. New US subscriber.
Great video Healthy bobcat Adroitly climbed the tree forward and backwards. Great looking coat. Great natural- non Disney- action. Probably 30lb cat. Incredible beginning...as the cat approaches, in jerky motion start stop.
BOBCAT : ok squirrel boy , go ahead and laugh your little laugh, you've won this contest for today! ! 😤😤😤 BOBCAT: but you've got to come down from that there tree sometime , and when you do..... I'll be there waiting ,I'll be there waiting , just for you ! ! ! 😼😼😼😼
The Bobcat o ly has to win once though and Mr Squirrel is lunch lol. I really enjoyed this video. Thank you for sharing it with us all who love the outdoors.
Squirrel knew that someone was recording the contest,tats why he came down again n again to entertainment us. Thank you squirrel....enjoyed the show!!!
I watch a great deal of large cats videos and different websites. One is particularly on rehabbing bobcats but I have never seen the bobcats even in the Open spaces climatry and such beautiful ways. This was really gorgeous to see the bobcat up and down up and down it was also funny. Thank you so so much for taking this picture and sharing it with all of us I don't think I have ever seen anything like this before I'm going to save it for those days that are kind of a down day. I don't normally like to see any kind of violence where one animal succeeds in the hunt even though it's natural and it's the way it is. However there is a large part of me that was hoping to bobcat would at least you know ketchup a claw and a nail or something I mean a tail something like that just a little bit of success he was so intense on the work he was doing. So again thank you very much. 👍
That's always the best part of archery season. The animals aren't spooked and you get to see stuff like this. It's always a good day in the woods, regardless if you see a deer to draw an arrow at. Thanks for sharing!!
I saw a video of a mother bear with cubs who saw a bear down the side of a moutain. Don't know what she said but kids went up a tree in a split second and the adult bear went up a tree. She ran down that moutain and up the tree after it like a rocket and took a swing at it to knock it out of the tree and made that bear a scared mess. I had no idea they could move that fast! No wonder climbing a tree would be useless!
Seriously? Give it a thought, why the squirrel is making those noises to call for the bobcat's attention, when it had already outwitted it? This is no joke for the squirrel. For the bobcat, it's just a meal. For the squirrel is either life or death.
What an incredible wildlife sequence Todd... much thanks for uploading. All cats are such amazing natural athletes and the Bobcat in particular is pretty much the perfect weight and size to really show off all felines unique and staggering evolutionary adaptations. In response the squirrels bating and laughter is quite unmistakeable. Outstanding UA-cam upload!
Incredibly fascinating fact that this lynx in rapid succession climbed up and down the tree four times. That would be human equivalent of climbing up and down a 30 metre Hugh pole with absolutely incredible speed. That clearly indicates that lynx is very powerful animal and has very high power efficiency ratio. However I would hate to see lynx catching small beautiful and cute squirrel. Thanks for this incredible video.
I love how in the very beginning the Bobcat was trying to charm the squirrel. It was doing that "Slow Blink" that domesticated cats do to be friends with another one. It's basically means, " it's Ok. I'm harmless. I just want to be friends ". Lol. I think that Bobcat was a lying ! What stood out for me in this video was the sound of it's sharp( & big) claws on the tree. We used to have a panther in our neighborhood when I was young. Whenever I stayed over night at my Grangmother's house, I would sleep in her bed. The bed was against the window next to her back porch. I could see it walking around at night because its eyes lite up at night. Especially if it was a full moon. At that time I was too young to realize what it was. I thought someone was walking around with 2 small flashlights. But I did know it was something I didn't want anything to do with ! My Dad was stalked by it one night when he had to close off gates in our pasture where the cows were when it was raining. He said it sounded like on like an old woman screaming. Him & my bothers went the next day & they found it tracks in the mud & it was circling my Dad. We never lost cows but we did find some dead calves.
about a month ago there were two squirrels, one chasing the other around and around a tree, but up side down and fast. this went on for approximately 20 minutes. i was so fascinated by the way they stuck to that tree, as if they were on the ground. it was effortless for them, and they were fast, and traveled around it in a screw pattern. back and forth, un and down. the one being chased was staying on the opposite side of the tree as the other kept chasing it. up and down that tree. facing upwards and down wards. it didn’t matter, they gripped the bark, and moved real fast. that bobcat never had a chance. two bobcats could catch one squirrel on one tree. they are too slow and sluggish compared to a squirrel. fun to watch though. nice work with the camera btw.
Amasing footage, you are privaledged to have witnessed it, thank you for sharing. That Bobcat would have been eaten by one of our Drop Bears in our Australian bush 🇦🇺 😂
This is the stuff people don't think cats have to do every single day to get food. They try everything over and over. Squirrels even seem to play with them or tease them. But I've never seen cats move so well on a tree. It moves almost as easily as a squirrel. Squirrels are basically the gymnasts of the forest and for anything to catch them is miraculous. Usually cat's just nap at the foot of trees and wait for a squirrel to come down and slip up.
It’s a tough life being a squirrel: bobcats, hawks, foxes, pine martins, and of course cars. They work and prepare so hard for the winter, bother no one, and they’re on so many other animals menus. Nice to see one win something (like their life) once in a while. Btw, I brake for squirrels.
There are bobcats in the not-too-far area. Like within 100 km. One fine day I was hiking along the trail. And i came around the corner and suddenly I was face-to-face with a bobcat. Less than 2 yards from him. Suddenly we were both embarrassed to be so close to "the other." I managed to take one step backwards. He managed to achieve Warp 12 and disappear into the undergrowth. Yes, I felt smug that my hiking was quiet enough to get this close to one. But then, he was smug becaue he had warp 7 built into his legs. He left so quickly that there were definite relativistic effects. Is there any way I can get the bobcats to come to my backyard and eat the squirrels? That would be very good.
"Bobcat Chasing a Squirrel is one of the more underrated films of the year. It's a story of perseverance between a predator and prey, two natural enemies engaging in a struggle to survive, one through satiating a need to nourish, the other the instinct to stay alive. Both lead characters appear to be tacticians. One centers its life on the hunt, the other fancies about in an elusive, antagonistic, yet gregarious manner. This magnificently filmed masterpiece is a cimematic example of the winner being the loser and the winner being the loser"
Thank you for watching and thank you for realizing the real life in the woods. Predator vs. Pray The Animals live their Lives in the woods that we visit and it was Awesome to be able to sit in a tree and watch real life happen
I cant believe that the Squirrel didnt jump from tree to tree and get away from the bobcat lol...It like the squirrel was messing with the bobcat...lol Thank you for watching!!
Fun fact, you may think squirrels are faster than you, but a squirrel only changes directions faster than a human, their forward speed is actually 30% slower. Which is still impressive considering their size.
This viewing should be in many classrooms. Over 1/2 of your thumbs are Dislikes. Most likely a large number of those are because of the nasty racket they encountered. The battle watching was truely a chance of a lifetime, congratulations, and thank you for sharing.
If you watch male squirrels chasing females on ground or just like this round and round and up and down trees or utility poles you see the same apparent success rate but you also see plenty of squirrels - the youngsters too - so some ladies eventually are caught and litters result. And so predators meals are there among even those many misses.
@@Don.Challenger Squirrels are pretty stupid as animals go though. They seem to be born to die on purpose so there'd be enough protein to go around for the carnivores. Based upon that it's my considered opinion that squirrels aren't a typical prey animal. I know the coyotes and others around here depend on them quite a bit.
@@Hide_and_Tweak I don't know your definition of "catch", but they stand out well enough on tree branches through a rifle scope. I don't know if chipmunks climb, but they're like Lamborghini's compared to squirrels on the ground.
Awesome footage! Thanks for sharing it. I have a domestic house cat that was born in the wild and whom I literally plucked off a tree limb and brought home when she was a young baby kitten. She grew up on my 20 acres as a farm cat and probably has climbed nearly every tree in my forest. As a young cat she was fearless, strong, and hated squirrels with a passion. She could run up and down a tree nearly as well as a squirrel. One night I got to witness a similar epic battler between her and a young flying squirrel. She had already managed to catch the flying squirrel and had it on the ground when I found her with it. When I arrived it distracted her enough so that the flying squirrel slipped out from under her paw pinning it down and immediately headed for a nearby elm tree. It probably was already exhausted from fighting with the cat to get free as it only ran up the tree trunk about 8 feet and stopped. My cat immediately zipped after it, running right up the tree trunk and batting the squirrel off the trunk with her paw. As soon as the squirrel fell to the ground, my cat jumped off the tree down to the ground right behind it. This squirrel had no idea a cat could run right up a tree and literally knock it off the tree trunk. I'm sure the squirrel had a new found respect for cats after that. Naturally, once the squirrel hit the ground, it ran right back up the tree trunk, this time going up about 15 feet before stopping. My cat continued the chase, going right back up the tree trunk herself. The squirrel was faster obviously but my cat was surprisingly quick up the tree too, as she badly wanted to recapture her prize. This time, the squirrel dodged the cat by jumping over to another part of the tree trunk about three feet away. The squirrel clearly thought this would end the chase but my cat never broke her stride. Instead she just leaped across the gap too and grabbed the next tree trunk to continue the chase. This squirrel was shocked to learn that this cat was able to follow it right up any tree it chose to climb, even jumping across from tree trunk to trunk. My cat tried to bat the squirrel off the tree once more but missed it. This caused the squirrel to take a more sensible evasive maneuver of climbing as high as it possibly could go in the tree. Once it reached a small enough limb that would not support my cat, she broke off the chase and eventually backed down from the tree. Had I not seen all this transpire, I never would have believed it. But it truly happened. If a feline wants to do so bad enough and puts its mind to it, a squirrel just might be caught off guard enough by the cat's surprising tree climbing ability to be hit by a cat's paw. If the cat gets a set of claws into the squirrel, the chase might just be over for the squirrel.
I love that you kept score! Cats can climb up a tree fast, it’s the getting down that they find tricky. If the squirrel would stop chattering it could’ve been over quicker, needs to learn stealth mode. It did sound like it was laughing at Bob.
Shane Cormier just to be clear Bobcats won’t chase people. They aren’t aggressive - they are actually very timid. We have them in our backyard and if they know a human is around they leave immediately. I have seen videos where they mistake a person for some kind of much smaller prey and will run at a person but they stop as soon as they understand. Just like this video, he snuck away real quietly when he saw the human in the tree.
The muscular power, the agility, the speed and the stamina of that cat are something...
Ja , but it's problem , exhausted now and no squirrel-meat for energy ... 🐺😐
Squirrel: You've merely adopted the trees, I was born in them.
Great video, thank you for sharing
Amazing footage. The squirrel is able to run down the tree much faster and is confident enough to trash talk the bobcat. But the amount of energy and athleticism the bobcat puts into the hunt is also impressive and with no payoff. Life in the forest is tough.
Bro why can I hear this with a documentary voice 😭
Give this cat an A for effort. Squirrels are super fast. This cat is real ambitious hard worker. Proud of this guy. Great once in a lifetime video.
This is by far some of the most amazing footage of cats I've ever seen. I live in NY and people are generally terrified of BobCats despite there never being any reports of attacks or anything like that. The size of this guy did amaze me though ! When he's vertical on that tree he looked like a Mountain Lion. I know the cops in Upstate NY get calls all the times of escaped Zoo lions and Mountain Lions creeping around and it's really only a Bobcat and like in this video, once they see a human they take off.
The thing is Mr. Squirrel, the Bobcat only ever needs to win once ;-))...
so true! Thank you for watching
Actually I saw a bobcat vs. Squirrel video before and the Bobcat got the squirrel on three separate occasions but for some odd reason the squirrel was able to get away the first two times but in the end Bobcat finally got him all the way
Bobcats are shockingly athletically gifted! 😳
@@Counter-Intuitive - I've got a cat and had cats. 3 have passed away. They are very athletic and agile and a bobcat is just a bigger, pumped up on steroids version of a domestic cat.
He only needs to win the squirrel once but he needs to win way more to survive just sayin
That squirrel has the best diabolical laugh I've heard since Vincent Price at the end of 'Thriller'...
And the squirrel is still laughing! Great filming mate! Thank you. Beautiful creatures. Love cats!
it's not a laugh, it's a warning "bark" that a threat is close, be on guard
2:08 I wouldn't have thought a bobcat could get up a tree that fast.
man I know!!! it took him a while to get back down though LOL!! Thank you for watching :)
Still, the squirrel probably watched it in slow motion.
I have seen a leopard going just as fast up literally running up the tree as if the world was 90 degrees sideways at about the same speed as running on flat terrain. But even more shocking, the monkey trying to escape jumped off the tree and the leopard also jumped from a good 20 meters to the ground ! and immediately chased the monkey who couldn't escape any further.
@@heavymetaloutdoors9552 Squirrels can run down a tree, cats have to back down. I had a bird hunting cat, he took 2 small leaps to a tree, 1 huge up it, then a hop up from there and paw reaching up, the birds coun't believe it either, one got its feathers brushed and they all saw him coming. 12 feet up in a flash. I saw a cougar hunting squirrels up in trees at night, cougar won, bobcat looks slow and clumsy there compared to that 400 pounds jumping from branch to branch 30 feet up. Just the noise of the claws going into the wood was amazing!
Yeah its too fast for that bobcat can go climb in tree
Not only speed but also the intelligence of the squirrel worked properly,so he could save his life.
Dude that’s got to be some of the best wildlife hunting footage I’ve ever seen. I’ve always been warned about cats climbing but I didn’t know they could get up a tree that quick.
it was a blessing that i was in the tree that morning and got to see and video this!!! Thank you for watching!!
@Rob Joshy , The first caption of the video at 00:04 is: "It was a typical afternoon in the treestand, it was archery season and all was quiet
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That Bobcat can actually attack Human above from the Trees
And the scariest part is Black Panthers, Leopards, Pumas, and all of those big cats are the best tree climbers. Just think, they carry their 175 pound kills up trees so no other big cat can take it and then they hang it on a branch and can eat for two days or more.
Humans can attack you anytime anyplace. Festivals grocery stores schools. It's pretty amazing.
Hahahahaha the squirrel 🐿 laughing!! Priceless 🤣🤣🤣
Its not a laugh, its a warning call, he's saying danger is HERE.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
That squirrel looked like it was actually enjoying itself, lol
lol I know!! it sounded like the squirrel was laughing at the bobcat!
@@heavymetaloutdoors9552 squirrel have weird psychology. Their biggest foes are other squirrels and i believe they treat predators like rival squirrels.
1 squirrel won my speedster of the year award, they like going fast! 2nd place was a raven diving like a falcon to gain incredible speed, glided just above the trees, then one winged next updraft and had to break to poke the turkey vulture he was chasing away Red squirrel glides down 45o slope in my backyard slick ice after a rain and freeze, sister is well behind so she uses 4 paws to gain speed the whole way down, the hairs on her was compressed on her body and face by the wind, so funny!!! looking skinny for a moment.
Oh yeah shure
Bobcats catch and eat a lot of squirrels, main food source
Amazing sighting! That's a huge bobcat. Being a predator is harder than you think. These have to hunt for their food while squirrels graze all day.
I thought the same thing...thats the biggest bobcat that ive seen in the woods and he burned a lot of calories chasing the squirrel. :) Thank you for watching
Magical moment for you...great filming, poor Bobcat had a good try-now he's too tired, and what a lucky Squirrel!
Bobcat is by far the coolest wild cat imo. They're so versatile yet on a 1v1 a human can still win bare handed if it's an adolescent maybe. So cool
🤣🤣 That squirrel had that bobcat acting all squirrely and ended it triumphantly, with that immaculate "Squirrel Chuckle" 💯💯
That was pretty darn cool!!! I think that squirrel was playing with him cause the squirrel could have gone up the tree and jumped to another tree.
Vance Hammontree yes the canopy there would afford easy exit for the squirrel in any direction it chose. i likewise can’t think of any explanation but that the squirrel felt so secure it was messing with the bob cats head.
During season squirrels are territorial of their trees and fight off other squirrels. They will often stand up to other creatures that try to muscle in.
I might have had a little pucker factor starting - wondering how it would be if the cat came up my tree. Hello kitty. Suprise!!
@@teeroux yes i think too that squirrel interact a lot with other rival squirrels and eventually use the same behavior with other animals even predators.
Nope. Squirrel probably has nest nearby and do not want to bring the cat there.
Here's the extreme advantage that cagey little squirrel had over the bobcat. The bobcat was able to climb upward with lightning like speed but had to take it's time reversing it's course to come back down to regroup for another attack. The squirrel however can climb downward with it's face/head looking downward due to it's claws/ankles being able to rotate 180 degrees where it can grip the tree bark as though it was climbing upward as well. Cats are all great climbers going up but this is why you'll see a cat get stuck in a tree on occasion because they don't have that same mechanism in their claws a squirrel does. Cats might be king on the ground but squirrels rule the roost when it comes to scurrying around in a tree,, they can afford to laugh at anything trying to run them down in the climate they alone own. Squirrels own the tree line & can literally run a circle around anything foolish or hungry enough to try to catch them..
That squirrel was laughing/taunting him...I heard him...😂😂😂
LOL I know right :) The Squirrel could have moved from tree to tree to get away but stayed and Played and laughed at the bobcat :) Thank you for watching
They're kind of like Crows. Natures Troll.
That part was too funny. It laughed for a good 5 mins. 🤣
Heavy Metal Outdoors “that squirrel 🐿 was probably tough and tasteless anyway. And I just wanted to play tag with him. And sharpen my claws on the tree, if I wanted to I could have caught it,” says the bobcat.
My personal experience with squirrels is that they are proud little creatures and that it indeed was savoring its victory over the cat. Squirrel are well practiced at chasing each other up and down trees at dizzying speed (they are the only creature to run down trees head first). The bobcat although surprisingly fast running up in a straight line is slow when it tries going round the tree bark and hopeless going down. But the squirrel biggest weakness is once they panic they make huge mistakes and that only works when they are ambushed. Once they are aware of the foe and calm down, and on the tree, they fear nobody except a hawk that will panic them. Once i jogged in the forest and squirrel runs almost into my feet from panic.
7:00 ‘you’re gonna show this to everyone, aren’t you..’
Yup
"Heck! I'll be on YT!"
Wow! Likely the best wild footage of a bobcat to exist. Excellent look into the life of such a stealthy and secretive species.
I agree!
Thank you so much for this event . I laughed at this bobcat and the sream of this squirell looks like a mockery to this marvellous creature. Thank you again from a cat lover.
You did a great job capturing that video... Thanks for all of us viewers! That was seriously entertaining, and educational as well.
Thank you!! I always have a video camera with me in the woods because you never know what you will see!!! Thank you for watching!!!
Riveting footage. First time ever seen a bobcat retreat on such a focused hunt. Perhaps, there will be a sequel, part 2 when the bobcat comes back from his National Geographic star trailer in this wonderful video. Gives you a real feel for the agility, speed, and relentless focus of these cats. Perhaps from the bobcat's vantage point, it's just sport and instinct. Thank you for sharing with viewers worldwide. New US subscriber.
Great video
Healthy bobcat
Adroitly climbed the tree forward and backwards. Great looking coat.
Great natural- non Disney- action.
Probably 30lb cat.
Incredible beginning...as the cat approaches, in jerky motion start stop.
That was totally awesome!
I do believe the great spirit wanted you to see another small part of the wild life that isn’t usually seen!
BOBCAT : ok squirrel boy , go ahead and laugh your little laugh,
you've won this contest for today! ! 😤😤😤
BOBCAT: but you've got to come down from that there tree sometime , and when you do..... I'll be there waiting ,I'll be there waiting , just for you ! ! ! 😼😼😼😼
😂😂😂
The Bobcat o ly has to win once though and Mr Squirrel is lunch lol. I really enjoyed this video. Thank you for sharing it with us all who love the outdoors.
The cameraman is awesome with his ability to keep locating that squirrel on camera. Thanks for the amazing footage!
The squirrel looked like he had played that game before! That was great!!
yes! I wonder if those 2 had played that game before...lol Thank you for watching
Scooooooore!!! For the squirrel ! Well done Squirrely👍🏻 ….great video thank you❤️
2:48 the speed at which the bobcat climbs the tree is faster than my full speed sprint
Great footage! love the squirrel chuckle, but the bobcat is very young and he will be back with a one and done win!
That was so cool! Thanks for sharing! It sounds like the squirrel is laughing at the Bob cat! So funny, like "maybe tomorrow bro!"
Yes I love that the squirell was "laughing/taunting" the bobcat. I wonder if they do this every day lol!! Thank you for watching!!
Squirrel knew that someone was recording the contest,tats why he came down again n again to entertainment us. Thank you squirrel....enjoyed the show!!!
That laughing squirrel.... was EPIC
It's amazing how much work and energy the Bobcat used and didn't get the Squirrel.
That was a funny to watch, especially the laughing squirrel 🐿️ in the end, thanks for this
Wow! Amazing how quick that bobcat climbed the tree. However, the title should read: "Big bobcat confronts heroic squirrel of myths and legend".
I’m glade I got to witness this amazing video! Its just scary how relentless and determined that Bob cat was! It’s a squirrels World! 🐿
Dude awesome channel 🤘 and I didn't know bobcats were that awesome of climbers! Even though the squirrel kept laughing at him!
Pretty cool, and the sound the claws and tree make are nice
I watch a great deal of large cats videos and different websites. One is particularly on rehabbing bobcats but I have never seen the bobcats even in the Open spaces climatry and such beautiful ways. This was really gorgeous to see the bobcat up and down up and down it was also funny. Thank you so so much for taking this picture and sharing it with all of us I don't think I have ever seen anything like this before I'm going to save it for those days that are kind of a down day. I don't normally like to see any kind of violence where one animal succeeds in the hunt even though it's natural and it's the way it is. However there is a large part of me that was hoping to bobcat would at least you know ketchup a claw and a nail or something I mean a tail something like that just a little bit of success he was so intense on the work he was doing. So again thank you very much. 👍
That's always the best part of archery season. The animals aren't spooked and you get to see stuff like this. It's always a good day in the woods, regardless if you see a deer to draw an arrow at.
Thanks for sharing!!
I totally agree!!!! Thank you for watching!!
I’ve seen black bears go up trees faster than that bobcat which is truly terrifying! Great video!
lol yes that would be crazy!!!! Thanks for watching!
I saw a video of a mother bear with cubs who saw a bear down the side of a moutain. Don't know what she said but kids went up a tree in a split second and the adult bear went up a tree. She ran down that moutain and up the tree after it like a rocket and took a swing at it to knock it out of the tree and made that bear a scared mess. I had no idea they could move that fast! No wonder climbing a tree would be useless!
Funny. Sounds like the squirrel is laughing at him.
Amazing how fast that cat can go up that tree though.
Squirrel knew the bobcat’s weakness. “ If he climb up i’ll just run down “
5:10 I can't believe the squirrel is laughing at the bobcat..😆👍🐾
Seriously? Give it a thought, why the squirrel is making those noises to call for the bobcat's attention, when it had already outwitted it? This is no joke for the squirrel. For the bobcat, it's just a meal. For the squirrel is either life or death.
That bobcat climbs that tree almost as well as that squirrel. Lol......that's some amazing footage right there!
What an incredible wildlife sequence Todd... much thanks for uploading. All cats are such amazing natural athletes and the Bobcat in particular is pretty much the perfect weight and size to really show off all felines unique and staggering evolutionary adaptations. In response the squirrels bating and laughter is quite unmistakeable. Outstanding UA-cam upload!
That was fantastic best video chase I have seen!! I think the squirrel was doing the chase on purpose, great video 👍🏻
Incredibly fascinating fact that this lynx in rapid succession climbed up and down the tree four times. That would be human equivalent of climbing up and down a 30 metre Hugh pole with absolutely incredible speed. That clearly indicates that lynx is very powerful animal and has very high power efficiency ratio. However I would hate to see lynx catching small beautiful and cute squirrel. Thanks for this incredible video.
I love how in the very beginning the Bobcat was trying to charm the squirrel. It was doing that "Slow Blink" that domesticated cats do to be friends with another one. It's basically means, " it's Ok. I'm harmless. I just want to be friends ". Lol. I think that Bobcat was a lying ! What stood out for me in this video was the sound of it's sharp( & big) claws on the tree. We used to have a panther in our neighborhood when I was young. Whenever I stayed over night at my Grangmother's house, I would sleep in her bed. The bed was against the window next to her back porch. I could see it walking around at night because its eyes lite up at night. Especially if it was a full moon. At that time I was too young to realize what it was. I thought someone was walking around with 2 small flashlights. But I did know it was something I didn't want anything to do with ! My Dad was stalked by it one night when he had to close off gates in our pasture where the cows were when it was raining. He said it sounded like on like an old woman screaming. Him & my bothers went the next day & they found it tracks in the mud & it was circling my Dad. We never lost cows but we did find some dead calves.
This was great footage. Something only a very extreme few get to see. Thank you for sharing.
That's a real good eye that you got You was able to spot him and then get him on camera 👍👍👍 Thank you for the Post
about a month ago there were two squirrels, one chasing the other around and around a tree, but up side down and fast. this went on for approximately 20 minutes.
i was so fascinated by the way they stuck to that tree, as if they were on the ground.
it was effortless for them, and they were fast, and traveled around it in a screw pattern.
back and forth, un and down.
the one being chased was staying on the opposite side of the tree as the other kept chasing it. up and down that tree. facing upwards and down wards. it didn’t matter, they gripped the bark, and moved real fast.
that bobcat never had a chance.
two bobcats could catch one squirrel on one tree. they are too slow and sluggish compared to a squirrel.
fun to watch though.
nice work with the camera btw.
Bobcat is like damn, let me rest a minute and think about it.
I am amazed how fast that bobcat can climb the tree. So agile and quick despite the big body.
That's was Fantastic! What a Great way to spend the time while hunting & waiting!
So many squirrels,so few bobcats. Beautiful cat. The squirrel do that to my cats also. Taunting
Amasing footage, you are privaledged to have witnessed it, thank you for sharing.
That Bobcat would have been eaten by one of our Drop Bears in our Australian bush 🇦🇺 😂
Poor bobcat got worn out by the cheeky squirrel 🐿 haha 🤣
Hi HM Outdoors, That is the most fantastic footage of a bobcat I've ever seen. Thank you-Paul
Thank you Paul! I couldnt believe that it happend right in front of me! Thank you for watching
The hunter was being hunted by a hunter watching a hunter hunt. - Dwight Schrute
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This is the stuff people don't think cats have to do every single day to get food. They try everything over and over. Squirrels even seem to play with them or tease them. But I've never seen cats move so well on a tree. It moves almost as easily as a squirrel. Squirrels are basically the gymnasts of the forest and for anything to catch them is miraculous. Usually cat's just nap at the foot of trees and wait for a squirrel to come down and slip up.
Bobcat: Go ahead squirrel laugh at me, I'm still gonna continue chasing after you, until you get tired out.
That squirrel 🐿 is actually the bobcats personal trainer, they had an appointment 😜
Great catch! Thanks for sharing.
Thank you for watching!!!
What an athlete. 👏👏👏👏👏But the little critter had him beat. 🤣
It’s a tough life being a squirrel: bobcats, hawks, foxes, pine martins, and of course cars. They work and prepare so hard for the winter, bother no one, and they’re on so many other animals menus. Nice to see one win something (like their life) once in a while. Btw, I brake for squirrels.
elliot dobson Go to Chicago and tell me the same.
Thanks for posting, I've not see a bobcat in the wild, real time or video. Cool to watch!
I'm glad to share!!! Thank you for watching
My dog wishes he had bobcat powers.
hahaha im sure!!! Thank you for watching
There are bobcats in the not-too-far area. Like within 100 km. One fine day I was hiking along the trail. And i came around the corner and suddenly I was face-to-face with a bobcat. Less than 2 yards from him. Suddenly we were both embarrassed to be so close to "the other." I managed to take one step backwards. He managed to achieve Warp 12 and disappear into the undergrowth. Yes, I felt smug that my hiking was quiet enough to get this close to one. But then, he was smug becaue he had warp 7 built into his legs. He left so quickly that there were definite relativistic effects.
Is there any way I can get the bobcats to come to my backyard and eat the squirrels? That would be very good.
start with wishing your dog to be as smart as a chicken for starters (Because they ain't).
How does this not have more views?!?! Well shot, well done and interesting.
"Bobcat Chasing a Squirrel is one of the more underrated films of the year. It's a story of perseverance between a predator and prey, two natural enemies engaging in a struggle to survive, one through satiating a need to nourish, the other the instinct to stay alive. Both lead characters appear to be tacticians. One centers its life on the hunt, the other fancies about in an elusive, antagonistic, yet gregarious manner. This magnificently filmed masterpiece is a cimematic example of the winner being the loser and the winner being the loser"
Thank you for watching and thank you for realizing the real life in the woods. Predator vs. Pray The Animals live their Lives in the woods that we visit and it was Awesome to be able to sit in a tree and watch real life happen
That's impressive. The squirrel could easily have branched off to another tree.
That cat is a phenomenal climber,who knew , now I do🐱
The Bobcat's tree climbing credentials are impressive, especially without the long tail to maintain its balance
Совершенно верно! Поражает! Рысь это что то невероятное!
А с обратной стороны ушей пятна как у тигра! 😊
Squirrel just having a good old time, bobcat ran out of gas he’s done.
yeh. you could see he's breathing heavy
LOL that is one cocky squirrel! Listen to him chuckling while the bobcat licks his paws and pretends not to be embarrassed ...
I cant believe that the Squirrel didnt jump from tree to tree and get away from the bobcat lol...It like the squirrel was messing with the bobcat...lol Thank you for watching!!
That squirrelly rascals bout as crafty as dem darned Duke boys!
Classic Tom and Jerry moves! LMAO!
Fun fact, you may think squirrels are faster than you, but a squirrel only changes directions faster than a human, their forward speed is actually 30% slower. Which is still impressive considering their size.
Thank you for watching!!!
Awesome video! That bobcat is huge! Keep the videos coming!
This viewing should be in many classrooms.
Over 1/2 of your thumbs are Dislikes. Most likely a large number of those are because of the nasty racket they encountered.
The battle watching was truely a chance of a lifetime, congratulations, and thank you for sharing.
That bobcat climbs trees faster than most animals run
The general success rate of predators is surprisingly low.
If you watch male squirrels chasing females on ground or just like this round and round and up and down trees or utility poles you see the same apparent success rate but you also see plenty of squirrels - the youngsters too - so some ladies eventually are caught and litters result. And so predators meals are there among even those many misses.
@@Don.Challenger Squirrels are pretty stupid as animals go though. They seem to be born to die on purpose so there'd be enough protein to go around for the carnivores. Based upon that it's my considered opinion that squirrels aren't a typical prey animal. I know the coyotes and others around here depend on them quite a bit.
squirrels are the fastest tree climbers on earth. You have to catch them on the ground, otherwise it's pretty much impossible.
@@Hide_and_Tweak I don't know your definition of "catch", but they stand out well enough on tree branches through a rifle scope. I don't know if chipmunks climb, but they're like Lamborghini's compared to squirrels on the ground.
the humiliation.... Not only was the squirrel laughing at the bobcat, it was all filmed... Nice catch cameraman...
Outstanding capture of Nature in action 👍
Thank you for watching!!
A fisher can always run down a squirrel. Bobcat is out of luck when the ambush fails. Cool camera work!!👍
Bobcat runs faster up on a tree than some people on the street!
Yes for sure! The power...the claws!!! awesome!! Thank you for watching!!
@@heavymetaloutdoors9552 thanks 4 the video!
Nice footage... that one lost would be a lifetime for the squirrel
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And even beyond just that one catch's lifetime there are also the opportunities lost in all the missing litters through time.
Awesome footage! Thanks for sharing it.
I have a domestic house cat that was born in the wild and whom I literally plucked off a tree limb and brought home when she was a young baby kitten. She grew up on my 20 acres as a farm cat and probably has climbed nearly every tree in my forest. As a young cat she was fearless, strong, and hated squirrels with a passion. She could run up and down a tree nearly as well as a squirrel.
One night I got to witness a similar epic battler between her and a young flying squirrel. She had already managed to catch the flying squirrel and had it on the ground when I found her with it. When I arrived it distracted her enough so that the flying squirrel slipped out from under her paw pinning it down and immediately headed for a nearby elm tree. It probably was already exhausted from fighting with the cat to get free as it only ran up the tree trunk about 8 feet and stopped.
My cat immediately zipped after it, running right up the tree trunk and batting the squirrel off the trunk with her paw. As soon as the squirrel fell to the ground, my cat jumped off the tree down to the ground right behind it. This squirrel had no idea a cat could run right up a tree and literally knock it off the tree trunk. I'm sure the squirrel had a new found respect for cats after that.
Naturally, once the squirrel hit the ground, it ran right back up the tree trunk, this time going up about 15 feet before stopping. My cat continued the chase, going right back up the tree trunk herself.
The squirrel was faster obviously but my cat was surprisingly quick up the tree too, as she badly wanted to recapture her prize. This time, the squirrel dodged the cat by jumping over to another part of the tree trunk about three feet away. The squirrel clearly thought this would end the chase but my cat never broke her stride. Instead she just leaped across the gap too and grabbed the next tree trunk to continue the chase.
This squirrel was shocked to learn that this cat was able to follow it right up any tree it chose to climb, even jumping across from tree trunk to trunk. My cat tried to bat the squirrel off the tree once more but missed it. This caused the squirrel to take a more sensible evasive maneuver of climbing as high as it possibly could go in the tree. Once it reached a small enough limb that would not support my cat, she broke off the chase and eventually backed down from the tree.
Had I not seen all this transpire, I never would have believed it. But it truly happened. If a feline wants to do so bad enough and puts its mind to it, a squirrel just might be caught off guard enough by the cat's surprising tree climbing ability to be hit by a cat's paw. If the cat gets a set of claws into the squirrel, the chase might just be over for the squirrel.
That squirrel understands what it means to be grateful to be alive
Thank you for watching
I love that you kept score! Cats can climb up a tree fast, it’s the getting down that they find tricky. If the squirrel would stop chattering it could’ve been over quicker, needs to learn stealth mode. It did sound like it was laughing at Bob.
Best youtube video i have seen in a very long time. Thanks..Big thumbs up.
😂😂 The squirrel is laughing at him, laughing hard also.
Nature at it's finest, that's worth the hunt in itself, thanks for sharing...
Mental Note: When being chased by a bobcat, don't climb a tree.
Shane Cormier just to be clear Bobcats won’t chase people. They aren’t aggressive - they are actually very timid. We have them in our backyard and if they know a human is around they leave immediately. I have seen videos where they mistake a person for some kind of much smaller prey and will run at a person but they stop as soon as they understand. Just like this video, he snuck away real quietly when he saw the human in the tree.
Bobcats are a little bigger than a huge house cat, but extremely skittish. They will run away from you.