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  Beaver dam across the Kern
on the
Preserve in March 2007 ...
...and in November
2007
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 Beavers eat only the inner bark of trees such as this cottonwood. They carry branches from fallen trees off to their dams and eat the bark later. This tree fell over not long after this picture was taken. (Photo by Janis Freed) |
 Bark has been peeled off in long strips by the beaver's large incisors. Beavers like willows as well as cottonwood, but they also eat a variety of aquatic plants. |
 Drag
marks of a beaver's tail or of tree branches. |
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| Animal tracks up
the sand bank from the river. In the outline
is a print which
resembles the front foot track in the drawing on the
right. (Photo by Marion Vargas) |
Source
of
this image: University of Nebraska Extension |
| BOBCATS |
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Lynx rufus californicus is one of a
dozen species of bobcats found from Canada into
southern Mexico. In size, bobcats are about twice as large as the domestic cat (males 14-40 lbs, females 9-34 lbs). A yearling may weigh around 10 lbs. It has a distinctive gait because its hind legs are longer than its front legs. In spring and summer it hunts during the early hours of dawn or at twilight but during fall and winter it may come out during the day because its prey are more likely out then if the weather is cold. It is strictly a carnivore and lives off rabbits, hares, mice, and other rodents, which may put it in competition with coyotes when their ranges overlap. |
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 Dec. 2011 |
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| Feb. 2011 |
Well camouflaged except for the white ear spots. Feb. 2011 |