Wildlife camera captures bobcat running with dinner in its mouth on Blue Ridge Parkway
A hungry bobcat was caught in action on the Blue Ridge Parkway, a video shows.
The bobcat was captured darting by one of the National Park Service’s nighttime wildlife cameras carrying its dinner, an unlucky rabbit, in its mouth.
The National Park Service posted the video, which was taken on Dec. 10 just before 7:30 p.m., to its Facebook page on Saturday.
“When you grab the last cupcake from the breakroom...” the park service wrote in the post.
The park service uses the cameras to learn more about the wildlife on the Blue Ridge Parkway, which runs between Shenandoah National Park in Virginia and the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in North Carolina.
The cameras have been funded by the Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation since 2009 and have captured more than 25,000 photos of 35 species on the Parkway’s land, according to the foundation’s website.
Over the years, the cameras have been placed in more remote areas and “citizen scientists” have become involved in the effort, the website says.
“Thanks to funding by the Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation and the work of some wonderful volunteer citizen scientists and staff, we are learning more about the habits of the Parkway’s wildlife by using wildlife cameras,” the National Park Service wrote on Facebook.
The video of the bobcat had been viewed more than 5,000 times as of Sunday morning.
“So much joy in watching nature,” one user commented.
“Just a little late-night snack,” another wrote.
But others were sympathetic to the rabbit.
“I know this is just nature but I fail to see the ‘joy’ in it,” one user wrote. “Poor rabbit.”
This story was originally published January 19, 2020 at 11:33 AM with the headline "Wildlife camera captures bobcat running with dinner in its mouth on Blue Ridge Parkway."
