Table 5. Home ranges (km2) of adult bobcats during 12 time intervals between April 1979 and August 1981. Values indicated by an asterisk are for
juveniles during the first period they were considered to occupy their own home range. Estimates in parentheses are considered too low as a result
of behavior of females with young litters (see text) and were not used in statistical calculations.


 1979 1980 1981


 28 Apr 1 Jul 26 Oct 17 Jan 6 Feb 29 Feb 1 May 20 Jul 8 Oct 1 Dec 9 Mar 1 Jul
 to to to to to to to to to to to to
Individual 30 Jun 25 Oct 16 Jan 5 Feb 28 Feb 30 Apr 19 Jul 7 Oct 30 Nov 8 Mar 30 Jun 12 Aug


MALES

 M1 12.2 10.2 15.1 18.2
 M2 12.4 11.3 -
 M3 12.3 17.1
 M6 4.8* 5.8 16.0 18.2 19.8 19.2 20.3
 M8 21.3 25.2 23.3 24.8 15.6

 FEMALES

 F1 11.0 11.5 10.6 14.0 (10.3) 13.8 12.9 12.4 12.9 12.9
 F3 5.9 -
 F4 10.9 10.4 7.0 6.8 11.7 (8.9) 11.0 8.6 -
 F8 4.1* 4.8 5.2 7.9 9.8 10.4 -
 F9 11.1 11.3 8.1 12.6 13.1 14.7 13.5 15.0
 F10 8.2 -
 F11 7.1 (2.3) 8.4 -