These camouflaged cats prefer to play hide-and-seek.
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources just lately posted a photograph of two bobcats mixing right into a snowy setting in Lincoln County and asked its Facebook guests to identify them. (Check out the picture beneath.)
One is a little more apparent than the opposite however even should you do discover each animals (a probability), you may nonetheless see how they use stealth to seize their quarry.
“Bobcats are crafty hunters, and with small prey, they will wait motionless and then pounce,” the division wrote. “Bobcats hunt small mammals, like eastern cottontail rabbits and snowshoe hares, as well as birds and even reptiles.”
Give up? One is strolling on the icy water within the decrease center of the image and the opposite is perched on what seems to be an enormous leaning tree trunk simply earlier than it forks out.
The “ment” within the division title over the picture partially obscures the upper animal, however bobcats received’t have that benefit in nature.
Apparently they do exactly positive with out Facebook’s assist anyway ― and towards extra imposing sport if want be. “They can even hunt and kill animals much larger than they are,” AZ Animals notes. “When they kill deer, they leap onto the deer’s back from a tree and bite its throat.”
In the temper for locating one other camouflaged critter? Spot the venomous creature on this picture posted by the Georgia Department of Natural Resources a few months in the past.
