While similar in weight, with adult male bobcats averaging about 28 pounds and lynx slightly less, the lynx is taller and rangier than the bobcat. Lynx can measure up to 30 inches tall at the shoulder, while bobcats reach 22 inches. Females and kittens are usually much smaller in size. During winter, bobcats prefer to keep out of deep snows and so often travel along rock ledges and on fallen trees and logs. The huge, snowshoe-like paws of lynx, however, enable them to readily travel on most snow surfaces.
Bobcats eat a variety of animals, including mice and voles, squirrels, rabbits and deer.
Diet of bobcats varies seasonally and between populations. Lynx prefer a diet of snowshoe hare. The only wild cat known to reproduce in New York, bobcats give birth to two to three kittens in the spring. Bobcats can be hunted and trapped by licensed sportsmen during the fur harvest season, but the lynx is completely protected year around. You are the visitor.