Their frontally located weapons, their teeth and claws, indicate this. Its dense short hair is a spotted pelage that provides excellent camouflage in the shadows of filtered sunlight (DiSilvester 1987). It has a striped ruff of fur on its cheeks and a short tail with a black tip.


Bobcats hunt animals which are wary and are very able to escape danger if they perceive it. The bobcat is about two feet tall from its shoulders to its feet.


Fish and Wildlife Service. In some areas they are quite rare, while in others they have stable and sometimes dense populations. A stealthy, silent approach is essential. This subspecies is confined to central Mexico. A lynx’s keen vision earns this cat legendary status in the myths of many cultures. The bobcat is brown with black spots. The major identification challenge is distinguishing lynx from bobcats.

Bobcat have expanded their range and population throughout the United States over the last decade. Its ears usually have small tufts at the tips, and its fur is longer on the sides of its head than on the rest of its body, forming a ruff. Bobcat are commonly confused with the Canada lynx given the overlapping historic range of both species in certain areas of northern US and southern Canadian regions. It gets its name from its short or bobbed tail.

The lynx is known by the tuft of black hair on the tips of its ears and its short or bobbed tail. The subspecies Lynx rufus escuinapae (the Mexican bobcat) is listed as endangered by the U.S. However in the more urban areas this brings new direct threats such as vehicle collisions and rodenticides, as well as indirect threats through highways creating barriers to dispersal. It weigh between 20 and 30 pounds. A bobcat’s tail is striped with black bands towards the end and has a black tip. There are probably almost one million bobcats living in the United States.

The subspecies occupying New Hampshire is known as Lynx rufus gigas.

Its fur may be grayer in winter. The Lynx rufus is a stealthy hunter, capable of sudden bursts of speed.

It has large ears with slight tufts of hair at the tips. Bobcats are medium-sized carnivores in the cat family (Felidae). They have a short tail, long legs, and large feet. Description The Bobcat is a medium-sized, reddish brown or grayish cat. Bobcat vs Lynx Tail: A lynx’s tail has a black tip all around, with the appearance of being dipped in a bottle of ink. SPECIES: lynx (Eurasian lynx), pardinus (Spanish lynx), canadensis (Canadian lynx), rufus (bobcat) ABOUT. Lynx rufus, the bobcat of North America, is a beautiful carnivore approximately twice the size of a house cat (DiSilvester 1987).

Bobcats (Lynx rufus) are one of the adaptable felines that are adjusting to human settlements in North America.