Bobcat Year

by Hope Ryden

Book Overview

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 067017730X
• ISBN13: 9780670177301
• Release Date: October 1981
• Publisher: Viking Books
• Length: 211 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A Bobcat Tale

Ryden does an excellent job of combining a large number of facts about bobcats with an easy-to-read fictionalized story. Her facts about bobcats seem to be quite acurate, well-researched and documented. The story, like many about wild animals these days, is heavy on moralizing about hunting, trapping and the need for homo sapiens improvement in getting along with our fellow animals. About the only caveat I have is I would not completely trust all her facts about the animals she mentions besides bobcats and coyotes. Her comparison of coyotes and bobcats, in fact, is possibly the best thing about the book. Personally, I found this better than "God's Dog" because it is more widely applicable and generalized, applying to a wider variety of geography and climate. This book is a very good way to gain a lot of information about bobcats in an entertaining way.

Bobcat Year is a wonderful introduction to these animals.

Bobcat Year is a wonderful introduction to these interesting and mysterious cats. Unlike the other cats common to North American, not much is known or written about bobcats. Hope Ryden has written a very readable, fictionalized account of the lives of bobcats living in the high desert, which is based on solid research. If more people were aware of these small cats, we might be able to provide protection to them. As it is now, bobcats are considered little better than vermin, to be trapped and shot. I encourage the publisher bring this excellent book back into stock