{"id":67138,"date":"2023-07-28T10:58:14","date_gmt":"2023-07-28T14:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sutton.ca\/?p=67138"},"modified":"2025-07-14T15:51:27","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T19:51:27","slug":"bobcat-in-sutton-a-magnificent-testimony-to-our-local-wildlife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sutton.ca\/en\/bobcat-in-sutton-a-magnificent-testimony-to-our-local-wildlife\/","title":{"rendered":"Bobcat in Sutton: a magnificent testimony to our local wildlife!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Here is a video of a young bobcat spotted last spring on the banks of the Missisquoi River, in the ecological connectivity zone that crosses the river and the Missisquoi Valley road.\u00a0<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ecological connectivity zones are natural corridors that allow species with a large home range need to move around to carry out their complete life cycle of shelter, food and reproduction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To find out more about <strong>bobcats<\/strong>, visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.natureconservancy.ca\/en\/what-we-do\/resource-centre\/featured-species\/mammals\/bobcat.html\">Nature Conservancy of Canada<\/a>&#8216;s website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thanks to Glen Sutton resident Simon Bouffard for sharing these beautiful images with us!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Vid\u00e9o lynx roux \u00e0 Sutton - \u00a9 Simon Bouffard 2023\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/heH0-ApLfgE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a video of a young bobcat spotted last spring on the banks of the Missisquoi River, in the ecological connectivity zone that crosses the river and the Missisquoi Valley road.\u00a0 Ecological connectivity zones are natural corridors that allow species with a large home range need to move around to carry out their complete&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":67136,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"hf_cat_post":[1743],"class_list":["post-67138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-other"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Bobcat in Sutton: a magnificent testimony to our local wildlife! 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