{"id":172,"date":"2006-05-04T12:07:40","date_gmt":"2006-05-04T20:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/portfolio\/bobcat-photos\/"},"modified":"2006-05-04T12:07:40","modified_gmt":"2006-05-04T20:07:40","slug":"bobcat-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/bobcat-photos.html","title":{"rendered":"Bobcat Photos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently had a chance to gather a few more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?x=bobcat__mammal__animal\">bobcat photos<\/a> in Mariposa, in the Sierra foothills near <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?x=yosemite_national_park_(california)__national_parks__protected_threatened_and_significant_places__location\">Yosemite<\/a>.   Bobcats (<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?sp=Lynx_rufus\">Lynx rufus<\/a><\/em>) are found throughout North America from southern Canada to southern Mexico. In the United States population densities are much higher in the southeastern region than in the western states. Bobcats can be found in a variety of habitats, including forests, semi-deserts, mountains, and brushland. They sleep in hidden dens, often in hollow trees, thickets, or rocky crevices.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/spotlight.php?img=15915\" title=\"Bobcat, Sierra Nevada foothills, Mariposa, California.\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/stock-photo\/bobcat-lynx-rufus-photograph-15915-658472.jpg\" alt=\"Bobcat, Sierra Nevada foothills, Mariposa, California, Lynx rufus\" title=\"Bobcat, Sierra Nevada foothills, Mariposa, California, Lynx rufus\" class=\"aligncenter\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Bobcat, Sierra Nevada foothills, Mariposa, California.<br \/>Image ID: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/spotlight.php?img=15915\">15915<\/a><br \/>Species: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/bobcat_photo.html\" title=\"Bobcat photos\">Bobcat<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?sp=Lynx_rufus\" title=\"Lynx rufus photos\"><i>Lynx rufus<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/spotlight.php?img=15916\" title=\"Bobcat, Sierra Nevada foothills, Mariposa, California.\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/stock-photo\/bobcat-lynx-rufus-photo-15916-504661.jpg\" alt=\"Bobcat, Sierra Nevada foothills, Mariposa, California, Lynx rufus\" title=\"Bobcat, Sierra Nevada foothills, Mariposa, California, Lynx rufus\" class=\"aligncenter\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Bobcat, Sierra Nevada foothills, Mariposa, California.<br \/>Image ID: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/spotlight.php?img=15916\">15916<\/a><br \/>Species: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/bobcat_photo.html\" title=\"Bobcat photos\">Bobcat<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?sp=Lynx_rufus\" title=\"Lynx rufus photos\"><i>Lynx rufus<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/spotlight.php?img=15923\" title=\"Bobcat, Sierra Nevada foothills, Mariposa, California.\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/stock-photo\/bobcat-lynx-rufus-photograph-15923-327983.jpg\" alt=\"Bobcat, Sierra Nevada foothills, Mariposa, California, Lynx rufus\" title=\"Bobcat, Sierra Nevada foothills, Mariposa, California, Lynx rufus\" class=\"aligncenter\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Bobcat, Sierra Nevada foothills, Mariposa, California.<br \/>Image ID: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/spotlight.php?img=15923\">15923<\/a><br \/>Species: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/bobcat_photo.html\" title=\"Bobcat photos\">Bobcat<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?sp=Lynx_rufus\" title=\"Lynx rufus photos\"><i>Lynx rufus<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I also photographed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?sp=Puma_concolor\">mountain lions<\/a> on the same trip.<\/p>\n<p>Keywords: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?x=bobcat__mammal__animal\">bobcat<\/a>, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?sp=Lynx_rufus\">Lynx rufus<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently had a chance to gather a few more bobcat photos in Mariposa, in the Sierra foothills near Yosemite. Bobcats (Lynx rufus) are found throughout North America from southern Canada to southern Mexico. In the United States population densities are much higher in the southeastern region than in the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[103],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-172","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-photo-of-the-day"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}