A camera in the Cleveland Metroparks captured historic photos recently, showing a bobcat prowling through the underbrush. It's the first modern sighting of a bobcat in Cuyahoga County since 1850.
CLEVELAND — A camera in the Cleveland Metroparks captured historic photos recently, showing a bobcat prowling through the underbrush. It's the first modern sighting of a bobcat in Cuyahoga County since 1850, according to the Ohio Division of Wildlife, the Metroparks said.
In the mid-1900s, bobcats started making a comeback in Ohio, though sitings of them are still considered rare. There have only been about 3,500 sightings in the entire state since 1850. Cuyahoga's neighboring counties, like Summit County, have had sightings, but this bobcat is the first in Cuyahoga County in nearly 200 years.
Bobcats are solitary hunters and territorial. They eat various small mammals like rabbits, birds, insects, and other small game like reptiles and amphibians. They have also been known to eat white-tailed deer, an"important component of the bobcat's diet," ODNR said.
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