From the dust jacket:
Can anybody really "lick his weight in wildcats?" Never, says Joe Van Wormer in this magnificent photo and text study of Lynx rufus, better known as the bobcat, or wildcat. In fact, he says, it is extremely doubtful that a 200-pound man could handle the average bobcat, which weighs less than 20 pounds.
The bobcat is an elusive and secretive creature, and although he often lives close to civilization, it is impossible to make any prolonged observation of him in the wild. Joe Van Wormer, however, has observed bobcats' dens and followed their trails. He has talked to many people who hunt or own them. He has known a number of domesticated bobcats and has encountered many wild ones, often with the treed cat crouching on one limb and himself, with camera, on another only six or eight feet away.
What is the family unit of the bobcat? Where does he live and what does he cat? How does he feel about humans? About his cousin, the house cat? Who are his natural enemies? The informal text and breath-taking photographs are a revelation of the temperament, habits, and lives of these strikingly beautiful nocturnal creatures whose yellowish eyes, it was once believed, could see through wood and stone.
"People say that cats are treacherous, says the author. "This is a human evaluation and has no validity as a description of a cat. A bobcat is a bobcat –and a wonderfully efficient hunting animal he is."
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