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No sex, age, or regional differences in food habits were detected in a study of 413 Florida bobcat stomachs collected from 1977–1983. Seasonal changes in the diet were attributed to variations in prey species abundance due to recruitment (small mammals), hunter mortality (deer/hogs), and migration (wintering bird species). Annual differences in food habits were attributed to a decline in cotton rat availability during 1981. Florida bobcats are specialists on small prey, utilizing birds more frequently and ungulates less frequently than more northern populations.
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Maehr et al. (1986) studied this question.
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