Bobcat sightings, encounters, and tracking

Residents of the greater Fallbrook area and Inland Empire regularly report sightings of bobcats. Rest assured though, to the best of this newspaper’s knowledge, they haven’t been blamed in any fatal human attacks in this area. Bobcats prefer small animals and reptiles like field mice, rats, gophers and snakes. The nocturnal felines they are, their favorite activity appears to be stalking chickens kept on properties, creeping through brush that borders open fields and springing across groups of boulders in the back country.

The native North American mammal’s scientific name is Lynx rufus.

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