For Star subscribers: Residents and researchers are learning a lot as they follow a GPS-collared bobcat and her kittens through a gated community on the west side of Tucson.
Henry Brean Biologists studying the behavior of urban bobcats on Tucson's west side have hit the mother lode with Avery.
“This is exactly what I was after, because it’s so unique that have infiltrated so far into Tucson,” Mollohan said. “This has been a wild ride.” By contrast, the bobcats caught and collared during the first year of the study mostly came from the western fringes of town, where homes are easier to avoid and the Tucson Mountains are never far from reach.
“She was literally stashing them under a bush” or in a pile of palm fronds and other yard debris that had been dumped in the wash, Mollohan said. “It’s been harrowing to watch, because you can’t do anything to help her.” That decision soon fell to the prospective buyers of the $431,000 home. Shallenberger said the buyers' agent was “a little bit freaked out at first,” because her clients have smaller dogs and didn’t want to lose one of them to a predator on their roof.
Backyard showThe bobcat family’s next stop was a rooftop two houses away, where Mollohan said they stayed for the next six weeks or so. “It was just exhilarating to see them right there in the backyard,” he said. “They’re amazing to watch.” As for all the houses, Mollohan said Avery seems to treat them no differently than the natural features she might find in the open desert.
“People have been so helpful,” she said, which doesn't surprise her a bit. She already knew that about the Old Pueblo before the study even started.
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