4 to Watch: Bobcat Who Survived Fire Gives Birth to Four Kittens
Four bobcat kittens are safe and sound after their mother, displaced by a wildfire, found a new den for the family
By Jonathan Lloyd ••
Researchers were pleased to find a litter of four kittens inside the den of a bobcat who made it through November's Woolsey fire. In the name of research and cuteness, they took a lot of photos.
It's one of the stories we're featuring today.
Bobcat Who Survived the Woolsey Fire Gives Birth to Four Kittens
A young bobcat captured and collared by researchers a day before a wildfire that burned from Ventura County to the Malibu coast has given birth to four kittens. The mother, displaced when the Woolsey fire burned her habitat, found a new den in which to raise the kittens. Click here for photos from researchers' visit to the den.
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Happy together! To help biologists identify them in the future, the four kittens were named B-364, B-365, B-36, and B-367.
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The kittens were tagged by biologists from the Santa Monica Mountains National Park Service while their mother was gone.
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The kittens' ears were tagged so scientists can identify them in the future when they go of into the wild.
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Hear me roar! B-364 may have been born on April 9, 2019 - but that doesn't mean they can't be vicious!
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Bobcat kittens typically stay in the day where they were born for about four to five weeks. After that, they start venturing off into the wild with their mother to go hunting.
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These kittens are expected to start eating solid foods after about two months. This little one still has a long way to go!
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Woah there! Looks like a few of these felines are already looking for prey!
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Biologists and rangers from the Santa Monica Mountains National Park Service helped save this kitten's mother just days before the devastating Woolsey Fire.
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Each of the children look just like their mother, B-362, with those deep, ocean-blue eyes.
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While this newborn fits snugly in the palm of someone's hand, most male bobcats will grow to be as heavy as 28 pounds, while females could be as much as 18 pounds.
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The four, the merrier! The usual litter size for bobcats is three, but this family brought along one more for the ride!
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B-364, B-365, B-366 and B-367 all snug and together as one happy family.
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Biologists from the Santa Monica Mountains National Park Service say they're happy to see the kittens thriving, despite how much their environment has been damaged in recent history.
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Say cheese! B-365 gets a glam shot for the camera from biologists before her mother returns home.
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