Superb video.

Dang.

Bad ass.

Big 10-4 on that. Very cool.

That was very cool. Thanks for posting

Natural world is awesome. Thanks for posting.
👍

I just saw that on FaceFugg this morning. Great video!

WOW! That was great. That is a brave cat, must of been hungry.😄

That was cool. Thanks for posting.

Quick hands.

Nice video!

I called in a bobcat one day that was rattlesnake bit on one of it's front legs. It was swelled up bad, and the bobcat was not walking on it.

I figure it got bitten just like the video showed the confrontation. Sometimes the snake wins.

Looked like the Ray Leonard of bobcats.

Very cool!

Thanks. They were both FAST!

Yes, it is. If the weather were warmer, though, the cat may have been bitten.

Saw a similar video with a feral yellow cat that took out a sidewinding pit viper in the desert. It was on one of those nature shows on TV. Same outcome.

Edit to add: This might be the one.

I’m thinking that Bobcat had played that game before!

I wonder if the snake landed one.

I'd guess that rattlesnakes are one of that cat's favorite meals. That wasn't his first time. He's learned that they're easy to track, don't require a lot of energy to kill,...and tasty.

And may just pick on them in the early mornings, or on cool days. A warmed up reptile is many times quicker than a cool one.

Yeah, for sure.

I watched an old barn cat kill a snake exactly like that years ago. A snake is no match for the quickness of a cat.

See that video I posted above. Tell me it isn't hot in that one.

Cool video

I too was wondering if the Bobcat didn't get bitten. The activity that caught my interest is the rolling around in the dirt before it actually began to eat. If it was so hungry, seems to me it would have just started munching, but that's just my human perspective.

A victory dance?

An attempt to shed pain by rubbing it off?

I know little about feline behaviors. Be interesting to know.

Cats, even housecats can be amazing hunters. We had a cat that lived to be 23 years old. It was a hunter.

Once I was watching a Cardinal eating from a feeder that we has hung on the trellis right off the back porch. I didn't realize the cat was in the area. She was hid in the vines that were growing on the trellis about 7' off the ground.

All of a sudden she exploded out of the vines, and while sailing through the air she hooked the Cardinal with her claws and shoved it in her mouth,...all before touching the ground.

The cat was about 18, maybe 19 years old at the time.

They do that when they're contented. My cat rolls like that every time I give him some attention. He's strictly an outdoor cat.

Awesome!

It's "scent marking" behavior.
They are claiming it as theirs.

https://www.petmd.com/cat/behavior/cat-behavior-why-do-cats-rub-against-you

That's a cool video. That bobcat looked like it wasn't quit full grown yet. Funny how he acted just like a big housecat, with that rolling around and other behavior.

Love seeing a damned serpent get what's coming to him. Thanks for posting.

I'll feel the same when Trump trounces Biden.

Yeah, it was a young cat.

From what I've seen, ALL cats pretty much act the same... House cat, bobcat, or mountain lion. All the same.

Tastes kinda like chicken.

L.W.

Great video, thanks. Nothing like knowing what you're doing.

I love a bobcat. What a badass.
I had a friend down in Georgia who used to eat rattlesnake. Deep fat fried, I ate rattlesnake with Jerry several times and it was good.
Jerry was an RN, worked the midnight shift at Baldwin County Hospital. He took in, at shift change at 11 pm, a plate full of fried rattlesnake chunks. He wouldn't tell the nurses what it was, but they all had a bite or two.

Then he said "I tricked you it is fried rattlesnake." Several of the girls vomited.
I wonder why Jerry couldn't get a date.

Notice how the bobcat kept batting the top of it's head trying to pin down the business end of that snake. Not going for the tail or mid-body where the snake could whip around and sink it's fangs.

Instinct or learned behavior? I'll go with instinct.

Amazing.

How about that crunch sound when he finally pinned that head down. Also one of the birds was raising hell, trying to run the cat off and warn all the other animals it was there.

And the kitty said “Buuuuurp”.

a catastrophe for the Rattlesnake

Magpie calling his buddies to come enjoy the inevitable leftovers.

Excellent video - very enjoyable and educative. Thanks. Although they are very shy and quick to leave once encountered, I have seen quite a few Bobcats in the high forest during the past 30 years - and a few up close after elimination due to troubles. That youngiish one looked a bit different from others I have seen - and I have never (knowingly) seen a Lynx. Might that be a Lynx??

The ear tufts and comparatively large paws relative to the body looks like a young lynx.

It's a bobcat. 100%

That was a cool video.

Ok, never seen a bobcat with ear tufts that long.

What state is it in?

about 20 miles NW of Los Angeles https://www.fs.usda.gov/angeles

That was cool

Are you calling Biden "A snake in the grass"?

Deep fried - it really does (at least to me)!

Gator eats Bob Cat or "Revenge of the Reptiles."

Good Republican Bobcat.

Definitely not lynx range.

Very interesting difference in the regional variation.

One heck of a video, make me think of the old saying "quicker than a cat" he smacked that rattler on every strike attempt, right in the head, impressive.

We've seen so many rattlesnakes at the deer camp this season I just may have to let a bobcat walk if I see one while deer hunting.....

Thx for posting, i had a feeling the cat would win.... ..heck I've seen videos of house cats taking down deadly snakes.

persiandog;
Good afternoon to you sir, I hope the day's as clear and still down in Idaho as it is here and all else is as it should be in your world.

Thanks for sharing the video, that's indeed impressive on the cat's part!

We live in snake country and in nearly 30 years of living here we've only had one rattler on the place, while they used to be quite common on the road going past our drive.

My contention after doing some reading on it, as well as watching our house cats drag blue racers and gopher snakes down into the horse pen and beat on them, was that the house cats must lay down a scent trail around their territory and the rattlers can pick up on it and find other more healthy places to be.

I might be wrong about that, but it seems the most logical explanation in my mind.

Regardless, thanks again for the video and all the best to you this fall.

Dwayne

I'd bet lunch that Lynx and Rattlesnake habitat don't overlap.

3 hr lunch

Exactly

No, it's not a Lynx. Night and day. There is no mistaking a Lynx for a Bobcat. If you have seen both.

Snake-breath?

I had a cat that was pure death on squirrels. He would stalk the squirrel until it ducked up a tree. They often go up a few feet and peek around the opposite side. The cat had it down, baby, and would snatch that squirrel on the airbourne pass-by.

Good afternoon to you , still in Idaho. best decision I ever made.

Or reacting to the snake, I've heard 'em mob snakes more than I've seen them mob cats.

That's a bobcat. No doubt about it.
The ear tufts are a bit long, but the body, leg length and most especially the tip of the tail give it away.

Neat video regardless and they're killers...no doubt.

Neat video.. Guessing it was a trail cam, zeroed in on the sandy spot.. Cats and birds are always looking for a dust bath. If legal it would be great place for a cat or coyote trap. The bird squawking at the beginning was classic..Used to do a lot of predator calling. Most coyotes, lynx, wolves have a magpie or raven following them where ever they go.

Amazing fighting skill and technique....puts a Ninja to shame.

At least the cat didn’t give him a pass.

once in a lifetime trail cam video for sure

wayy kool

Pretty cool video.

I was expecting to see a skid loader squishing a snake.