re: Are bobcats the greatest stealth animal?

I see several a year while hunting. I was hunting a river levee once, some guys pulled up 600 yards down the levee and started shooting into the levee. A few seconds later a pair of bobcats came out of the woods on top of the levee and just watched those guys target practice for twenty to thirty minutes. Another time I was wood duck hunting a bayou waiting on the shooting time when I saw movement coming down the bank, it was a big bobcat that walked out onto a log half way across the bayou directly across from me and laid down on the very end a few minutes before the Woodrow’s started dropping in. That one hauled arse when fire came out the end of my barrel.

Jaguarundi is much more secretive than a bobcat.

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Yet I’ve never seen a wild bobcat

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My husband and I paddled our canoe across the pond so I could fully commit to the role of a barefoot, 5'0” feral swamp goblin, shrieking at a bobcat to drop our duck from its jaws. The bobcat glared at me with pure, uncut hatred and absolutely complied, after a pause — and the mamma duck, Tina, lived to quack another day and raise her ducklings.

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They are soooooo quick

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I have spooked a few in the yard and their reflexes are off the charts insane compared to a regular house cat. Just their power and explosive movement is something to behold.