The slim, long-legged bobcat rested quietly in her leafy enclosure at the Ohio Wildlife Center, in rural Powell, Ohio. Occasionally she yawned, groomed her paws or walked along a thick branch suspended between constructed sleeping platforms. Nearly two centuries ago, her species was becoming barely a memory. According to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, bobcats (Lynx rufus) historically roamed throughout Ohio and North America, yet by around 1850 the bobcat had been extirpated from t...
