URBAN BOBCATS: Guess what, city dwellers: [04 ��in urban 
areas.�] These big kitties are closer than you think�we 
have details ahead on Passport to Texas� 

This is Passport to Texas

You might be surprised to learn that wildlife is all around. 
Even in large Texas cities.  

06�Bobcats thrive very well in urban areas. They�re 
extraordinarily adaptive.

Richard Heilbrun is the conservation outreach leader for 
Texas Parks and Wildlife. He says bobcats can find 
everything they need to survive in cities.

18�And so they will use the greenbelts and the city parks and 
the rivers and the creeks that run through our cities as travel 
corridors. And in those habitats, those greenbelts, they�ll find 
the rats and the snakes and the mice and the birds necessary 
for them to thrive.

It�s rare to see an urban bobcat. But it does happen; when 
it does, Richard says reactions vary. 

27�People have all sorts of reactions to bobcats. Some are 
excited. Some are worried. Some are nervous for the bobcat. 
Some think that it wound up there by mistake. And other people 
are afraid, because they don�t know how bobcats act. And so 
they�re coming to us with a wide range of questions, 
preconception, or ideas about outcomes that they think should 
happen. And we get to help them navigate whatever reaction 
they have into a solution that�s good for the bobcat and good 
for the people. 

What you should know about urban bobcats. That�s 
tomorrow.

The Wildlife restoration program supports our series and 
funds research on the ecology of urban bobcats in DFW. 
[W-139-T-4]

For Texas Parks and Wildlife�I�m Cecilia Nasti. 



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