_Specimens examined._--Total, 2: A specimen (now mounted in Park
Museum) from the Knife Edge Road; and ad. [Female], 76302,
Prater Canyon, 7500 ft., November 12, 1957, obtained by J.R.
Alcorn.
Bobcats are present throughout the Park. Approximately 80 observations
of bobcats are on file, from all parts of the Park and in all months.
Probably the bobcat and the gray fox are the most abundant carnivores in
the Park. In addition to known predation by mountain lions and coyotes
on porcupines, the bobcat kills porcupines. A dead porcupine and a dead
bobcat with its face, mouth, and one foot full of quills were found
together on January 31, 1952, under a boulder in front of Cliff Palace.
On August 20, 1956, I saw a bobcat hunting in sage in a draw near a
large clump of oak-brush, into which it fled, at the head of the east
fork of Navajo Canyon, Sect. 21, near the North Rim, 8100 feet.