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I’ve encountered a bobcat here and there, packs of coyotes and deer, but that was the first bear.

Renamed Wind Wolves, it is now the largest privately owned nature preserve on the West Coast, where endangered kit foxes and leopard lizards thrive along with elk, blacktail deer, great horned owls and bobcats.

A bobcat, coyotes and bears also visited the land, he said.

The sanctuary said it had lost five African serval cats, four bobcats, two Canada lynx and a Bengal tiger, among others.

So, too, have wild California bobcats and mountain lions.