Bobcat

There is only one species of Bobcat in California and in the southwestern deserts. It has the widest and most continuous range of any California carnivore and is found throughout all the deserts of the American Southwest.Bobcats are found in almost all types of habitat -- except metropolitan areas -especially in mountains and even in desert areas where water is available. In fact it ranges through all four deserts of the American Southwest, but favors rocky, brushy hillsides on which to live and hunt. The name Bobcat may have originated from its short tail, which is only 6 or 7 inches long. The end of its tail is always black, tipped with white, which distinguishes the Bobcat from its northern cousin, the Canadian Lynx, whose tail is tipped solid black.