For Star subscribers: A Tucson man has been charged for killing a bobcat from an ongoing research study that has drawn some criticism from amateur wildlife watchers.
Henry Brean A Tucson man is facing a misdemeanor charge in connection with the killing of a bobcat last year that was part of a research study.
Simmons, 70, lives near where the dead bobcat was recovered, between Whispering Bell Drive and Painted Hills Road, south of Ironwood Hill Drive. He was cited for killing wildlife without a license. The ongoing behavioral study tracks bobcats between the Tucson Mountains and the Santa Cruz River to learn more about how they move through populated areas in search of food and places to give birth and raise their young.
Based on the number of incidents so far just involving animals in the study, Mollohan suspects more Tucson bobcats than previously known are getting killed by people for preying on backyard poultry or pets. The Bobcats in Tucson Project is tracking 17 animals, and researchers hope to catch and collar five more cats by the end of the month.Three others were run over in the road and one died two days after it was trapped and released, possibly from the stress of being captured, though a necropsy found no clear cause of death.
The complaints started last January, after researchers caught and collared a male they nicknamed Wyatt. But wetlands visitors already knew the animal by another name: Graybeard. He’s also not crazy about the tracking collars themselves, which he considers invasive and potentially dangerous to the cats as they cross back and forth through the fences surrounding the wetlands park operated by Tucson Water.
Collars come offFor her part, Mollohan said they simply could not gather the detailed location data they are collecting by using trail cameras, scat surveys or any of the other, more passive techniques Hood and others have suggested.
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