Florida has wildlife more varied than alligators. In addition to an amazing array of birds and reptiles, it is also home to the rather elusive bobcat.
Sebastian Beach is in Central Florida, on the east coast. It’s a famous surf break. But like much of Florida’s east coast, it’s also an area known for sharks.
On Monday evening, Floridian photographer John Bailey was walking along Vero Beach in Sebastian Inlet State Park when he caught sight of this bobcat eying a shark (possibly an adult Atlantic Sharpnose Shark). The shark was busy dining on smaller fish in the shallows when the bobcat pounced, emerging from the salty ocean with it’s prey: the shark – which was almost as big as the bobcat itself.

Photo by John Bailey

We know cats are feisty, like batting and chasing bigger dogs. Now we know just how tough Bobcats are – going INTO the water to pursue a shark!
from The Scuttlefish, submitted by Pete Harwood