The capture of bobcat M11 in the Mallory Swamp.

Male M11 was first captured on September 11, 1996 at dusk with the use of dogs in the Champion timber lands to the east. Since at capture he was declared a juvenile that was still dependent on a dam, the capture team decided to proceed to capture his mother three days later. The decision was made in order to study the interactions between a mother and kitten, but most importantly and central to the purpose of the study, to document juvenile dispersal across the landscape in hopes of obtaining corridor route and habitat selection data. This information could only be obtained by tracking both the mother and kitten as a pair from the time frame in which the kitten was dependent on her prior to dispersal, through eviction, through dispersal, and to the point the kitten would establish its adult home range. This way a complete profile of dispersal could be attained.

My thesis is "Ecology of the Bobcat in the Mallory Swamp", University of Central Florida. 2002. 285 pages. I spent the bulk of the 1990s doing bobcat research in the state of Florida.

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[tmallow2004]

Wish I had more video. I actually do. But its lost somewhere in the house. Has a lot more interesting capture sequences.

[KMK39]

Great film of the study. 5*