The Illinois Department of Natural Resources reported that 627 bobcats were harvested by hunters and trappers during the 2025-2026 season, with Jefferson County harvesting the most.

Right now, it's mostly just an extra mob that pops up to mog you before you slap them down. It doesn't help that the world quest you get—disabling some sort of empowering object while dodging their ...

Bobcat (Lynx rufus) populations have been increasing since their extirpation in the 1850s. From the 1970s, the numbers have ...

Human beings are the greatest threat to the survival of endangered species, as we are the ones destroying their natural habitat, poaching and also causing the effects of climate change. Even though ...

A recent lynx sighting in southeastern Manitoba is a reminder that wild cats continue to live quietly across the region, even if most residents never see them. Nature interpreter Norm Gregoire with ...

A budding brouhaha in the Ohio outdoors could blossom into quite a catfight. To trap or not to trap bobcats is the question, and what’s at stake is something wild because if the Ohio Division of ...

Bobcats and domestic cats may look similar at first glance, but how closely related are they really? Bobcats are typically ...

Artificial light is one of the most ingrained features of modern life. For humans, light after dark offers convenience and a sense of safety. For wildlife, it's a growing environmental disturbance.

Last August, I shared a trail camera video on OregonLive of a bobcat in Beaverton walking along a beaver dam. Since then, the feline has been recorded five more times walking along the dam and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Credit: Shutterstock / BGSmith Credit: Shutterstock / BGSmith A bobcat may look cute in online pictures, but there's nothing cute ...

A bobcat was captured on a trail camera in Montgomery County. A member of one of Five Rivers MetroParks’ conservation programs spotted the bobcat on a camera in Twin Valley . “Seeing one suggests that ...