To learn more about urban bobcats, researchers had to also work with people
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When a bobcat mother appeared in a couple’s backyard in Tucson, Arizona, the wife was thrilled, but her husband, “not so much.” After receiving a call from the couple, Cheryl Mollohan arrived to see the mother stretched out on top of a storage container. In a hole below, a tiny kitten.
Mollohan, a TWS member and the lead biologist for the Bobcats in Tucson Research Project, had been working on uncovering information about how the wild cats were living in a busy city. Were their populations doing OK? And how were anthropogenic factors like roads affecting them?
