Bobcat Viciously Attacks World’s Largest Rattlesnake in Dramatic Camera Trap Photos

Bobcat Viciously Attacks World’s Largest Rattlesnake in Dramatic Camera Trap Photos

A remote camera has captured dramatic images of a bobcat viciously attacking the world's largest rattlesnake species in Florida -- a type of encounter that is rarely documented in the wild.

Field Camera Captures Bobcat Attacking Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake - Reptiles Magazine

Researchers employed a field camera in Florida and captured, in a series of 38 photographs, a bobcat (Lynx rufus) attacking an adult Eastern diamondback rattlesnake (Crotalus adamanteus). The remote camera recorded 38 photographs in a nearly two hour time span. The photographs show the bobcat biting the rattlesnake’s tail, then avoiding it, clawing the body and biting the head. Photographs that followed the initial attack showed the rattlesnake …