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Bobcat spotted on a fence outside Michigan prison. Photo via Michigan Department of Corrections.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
(FOX 2)<\/strong> – The staff at a Michigan prison welcomed a special visitor to the facility on Tuesday morning: a bobcat.<\/p>\n The Michigan Department of Corrections Facebook page shared a photo of the wild cat perched on top of a fence within the Chippewa Correctional Facility.<\/p>\n Big picture view:<\/p>\n On Tuesday morning, staff at an Upper Michigan-based prison reported a bobcat had spent more than an hour on an exterior fence around the facility.<\/p>\n Workers at the Chippeawa Correctional Facility reported a bobcat had jumped out of the wire, ran the perimeter of the building before climbing up a maple tree.<\/p>\n He eventually jumped down and ran around the parking lot where workers with the Michigan Department of Natural Resources were able to “corral him off grounds.”<\/p>\n The post was made around 2 p.m.<\/p>\n Dig deeper:<\/p>\n Between rising cougar sightings in the UP and evolving wolf behavior on Isle Royale, wildlife in Michigan has been an active theme the past few years.<\/p>\n Bobcats are part of that story and have rebounded from periods of unregulated hunting to maintaining a vital role within Michigan’s ecosystem.<\/p>\n The medium-sized wild cats usually weigh between 15 and 35 pounds and can survive in various habitats, including swamps, pine stands, and forest edges.<\/p>\n They tend to hunt hares, rabbits, squirrels, and birds.\u00a0<\/p>\n They are currently a species of lease concern in Michigan with the majority living in the UP.<\/p>\n For more information, find details on the DNR’s website here<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Source:<\/b> The Department of Natural Resources and Department of Corrections were cited for this story.\u00a0<\/p>\n Wild Nature<\/a>Around Michigan<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article Bobcat spotted on a fence outside Michigan prison. Photo via Michigan Department of Corrections.\u00a0 (FOX 2) –…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":451873,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[162960,1450,50,159,67,132,68,1581,837],"class_list":{"0":"post-451872","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-around-michigan","9":"tag-mi","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-science","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us","15":"tag-wild-nature","16":"tag-wildlife"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115731683797743663","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=451872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/451873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}