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BOBCAT
– North America’s Cat
Book Description:
Bobcats truly are North America’s cats. From
southern Canada to northern Mexico, bobcats inhabit
forest, deserts and swamps. Although they have been
hunted and trapped for more than two hundred years,
there may be as many as 1.5 million bobcats in North
America.
But these cats live in their own secret world. Elusive
and mysterious, these beautiful animals are rarely
seen in the wild.
In this fascinating book, chock full of bobcat facts
and stunning full-color photographs, Steve Swinburne
puts us on the trail of the bobcat, examining its
behavior, hunting techniques, and habitat, as well
as the cat’s special abilities to survive. Join
Steve as he leads us into North American woods to
stalk the mysterious bobcat.
How I was inspired:
I’ve seen a bobcat in the wild only once. My
only sighting was brief but memorable. I was driving
through Vermont one evening when I passed a bobcat
sitting beside the edge of the road. For a long moment,
I watched this wild and beautiful creature in the
glare of my lights. It looked as at home in the night
woods as stars do in the sky. I braked and backed
up slowly to get a better look, but the cat was gone.
That fleeting look planted the seed of curiosity and
since then I’ve wanted to learn more about the
bobcat. It was this curiosity that triggered the idea
for the book.
Book Features:
- Beautiful photographs of wild bobcats by Susan
Morse
- Bobcat facts
- Map of bobcat range
- Comparison of North American cats including house
cat, bobcat, lynx and Mountain lion
- Nature dictionary
- Further reading
- First-person narrative
Classroom Connections:
- Where do you find these animals?
- What do they have that enable them to survive?
Draw these adaptations.
- Observe a cat. How are a cat and bobcat the same?
Different?
- How are your dog and cat different? The same?
- Discover the nearest bobcat habitat to where you
live. Describe it.
- Visit a bobcat at your local zoo. Make observations.
- Make bobcat puppets with a paper bag. Put on a
play to tell why bobcats need friends.
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