This brings their hips up higher than their shoulders when they walk. Bobcats have a much flatter back, since their legs are shorter and the front are only slightly shorter than the back legs. Bobcats also have smaller paws or less huge, less floofy floofers, one might say. Filed in: Animals. Explore Blog Earn Rewards!
Profession Discounts Careers. Top Collections Dino Dana! Added to your cart:. Cart total. The Manx shares its common heritage with all other domesticated cats, the species Felis sylvestrus catus.
Descended from the African wildcat Felis sylvestrus lybica the domestic cat can actually mate with its ancestor. The lynx is a different species of wildcat. There are four species in the Lynx genus, including the Canadian lynx Lynx canadensis , the Iberian lynx Lynx pardinus , the Eurasian lynx Lynx lynx , and the bobcat Lynx rufus. The Manx cat weighs between 8 and 12 pounds; the lynx weighs between 22 and 44 pounds depending on species and gender.
A Manx may have no tail, a bobbed tails or, rarely, a full tail. Lynx have bobbed tails, hence the name for one of their species, the bobcat.
Lynx have tufts on their ears; Manx cats do not. The Manx's thick double coat keeps him warm and may be any cat color or markings, including tabby, calico or pointed. Yet animals that look like near mirror images of each other are grouped as separate species. Take the bobcat and lynx, for instance. The former is a medium-sized cat with long, tufted ears and a short, bobbed tail, while the latter is, well, a medium-sized cat with long, tufted ears and a short, bobbed tail. Yet they got slapped with different names and assigned to different species.
So what gives? Believe it or not, there's a method to the madness. While bobcats and lynxes are separate species, they do belong to the same genus, which, coincidentally, happens to be the Lynx genus. There are four different species belonging to this group -- three of which share the family name: the Eurasian lynx, the Spanish or Iberian lynx and the Canadian lynx.
The fourth member, the most common cat native to North America, is the previously mentioned bobcat. The Eurasian lynx the most numerous and widespread of the four species can be found throughout Western Europe and Northern Asia, while the Spanish lynx the rarest of the four is found only in Spain and Portugal.
The Canadian lynx lives primarily in Canada and a handful of northern U. While the three species bearing the family name have the bobcat outnumbered in terms of global spread, the bobcat dominates the continent of North America. That's because the lynx prefers forested areas since that's where its main source of food, the snowshoe hare, lives. The bobcat tolerates a more varied habitat -- from marshes and swampy areas in the southern part of the continent, to desert and scrub in the western regions to mountainous, forested areas in the north.
The only area where the Canadian lynx and bobcat coexist is along the U. Geography isn't the only difference between bobcats and lynxes. Learn how to tell them apart by taking a quick glance at their ears, coat, feet and tails next. Stay up to date or go down really fun rabbit holes with our newsletter! Since even the three species of lynx vary somewhat in regards to size and appearance, it can be difficult to make any wide generalizations about differences among them and bobcats.
For instance, a subspecies of Eurasian lynx called the Siberian lynx can weigh up to 84 pounds 38 kilograms -- much more than the average lynx weight of 18 to 60 pounds 8 to 27 kilograms [source: San Diego Zoo ]. Nevertheless, differences do exist. To begin with, the bobcat looks a bit more like an overgrown house cat than a lynx does. With extra-long tufts of fur on its ears and a shaggy mane of fur around its cheeks, the lynx takes on an otherworldly appearance.
The long black ear tufts, which can grow to be almost an inch 2. A lynx also has larger feet and longer legs than a bobcat to help it navigate the deep snow common in its range.
Its big, furry paws act like snowshoes to help this feline chase down food in the winter. Much of the time, that food consists of snowshoe hares.
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