Individual bobcat identification
Individual bobcats were identified in program COLONY (version 2.0.6.7, Jones and Wang 2010) using the clone method to identify and group matching genotypes (Wang 2016). Parameters used included male and female monogamy with inbreeding and with clone; diploid and dioecious options selected; the Full-Likelihood method with long run time selected; no updating of allele frequencies; sibship scaling; and no sibship prior. Probability of identity (PID) and probability of identity for siblings (PIDsib) were calculated in GenAlEx (version 6.503; Peakall and Smouse 2006, 2012) to assess the power of the microsatellite marker set to identify individuals.