This is one of 6 animal tracking caches that is placed (plus one more cache) on tracking, which are:
- - - Bear Tracking, Mountain Lion Tracking, >, Bobcat Tracking, Wolf Tracking, Jaguar Tracking, & Coati Tracking.
Directions: From I-19, take exit 29 (Tumacacori), then go east. After .1 mile, go right (south).
PARK AT: 31 33.306 – 111 02.909, walk across the street and then walk down the dirt road.
Don’t forget to go to the wash and look for tracks.
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Wildlife Linkages Program, run by Sky Island Alliance, looks for routes Cougars, Bobcats, Bears, Wolves, Jaguars, and Coatis take when they go from one mountain range to another. The mountain ranges are linked by the routes these animals take. The routes (linkages) are found by looking for the animals' tracks in washes between the mountain ranges. Read more at: Sky Island Alliance http://www.skyislandalliance.org/wildlife.htm.
At Sky Island Alliance, we go out and identify animal tracks, we don’t track the animal.
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Bobcat Info
Size – Bobcats usually weigh 16 to 20 pounds.
Range (where they live) – Bobcats live in Canada, United States, and northern Mexico.
Food (diet) – Bobcats live on small animals like rabbits, foxes, squirrels, birds, fish, skunks and insects.
Population (how many are there?) – Between 700,00 and 1,500,000.
The population depends on the population of pray (what it eats), the more rabbits, the more Bobcats.
Life span (how long do they live?) – Bobcats live about 6 to 8 years.
Other information – Bobcat’s tails are 4 to 7 inches long and are bobbed (short or stubby tail) which is where it got its name.
The Bobcat looks similar to the Canadian lynx and is the most common wild cat in North America.
Bobcats raise their young in hallow log, fallen tree, rock shelter and in caves.
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Bobcat Print
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Bobcat Print
(not real size)
Track is round about 1 to 3 inches.
Average is 1.8 inches.
The front track is a little larger than the rear track.
There is usually a leading
(one toe is in front of the others) toe.
There are usually 2 lobes at the top of the plantar pad and 3 lobes at the bottom.
Claws very rarely show.
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Bobcat Track
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It is hard to see the details of the track.
The track is round, has 4 toes, it is the correct size for a Bobcat, and the plantar pad is large compared to a canine.
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Bobcat Stencil
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A stencil in the original cache, plus a second cache that was placed, were taken and the stencils are gone.
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Read more about Bobcats at:
Bobcat – Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobcat
About Bobcats: http://www.desertusa.com/april96/du_bcat.html
Bobcat: http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/bobcat.html
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There is a 7th cache called Wildlife Linkages Tracking Challenge.
Don’t forget to get the number in each animal cache. Most of these tracking caches has the number under the top cover but in this cache the number is in the log book.
These numbers will help you find the Wildlife Linkages Tracking Challenge.
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