Rethinking Solitude: 5 Decades of Data Reveal Social Tolerance in a Traditionally Solitary Felid

Felids are thought to follow a social structure where individuals are solitary and limit interactions with other individuals of the same sex.  Using data from collared bobcats collected from 1985 to 2024, we investigated bobcat home range overlap and proximity across South Texas. The average bobcat home range was 7.9 km2 and did not change for males or females across decades.  We observed 102 instances of home range overlap.  Individuals primarily moved independently of one another but did not avoid one another as much as might be expected.

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