Bobcats: How Urban is Too Urban?

Here in Connecticut neighborhoods are home to both people and wild animals. Dr. Tracy Rittenhouse began the CT Bobcat Project with the expectation that bobcats lived in rural places and in exurban neighborhoods, yet she’ll describe how research has confirmed that bobcats also live in urban neighborhoods. Dr. Rittenhouse is an Associate Professor at UConn in the Department of Natural Resources and the Environment and is the director of the Wildlife and Fisheries Conservation Center. Tracy and her students study where wild animals live, how they travel through habitats, and why some wildlife population increase while others are extirpated or reduced to low abundance levels in forests that are intermixed with urban development.