Twelve Thousand years ago, our little Russian River Bobcat would have been a nice snack for the extinct California saber-tooth cat. Herds of massive animals roamed the Farallon Plain (the ocean coast was further west (12 miles) due to the ice age). Near Bodega are rocks polished smooth by giant Columbian mammoths...
here's a link to the story - excerpt below --- https://articles.sfgate.com/2006-12-...mammoth-smooth
"Columbian mammoths, known scientifically as Mammuthus columbi, were among thousands of now-extinct animals that roamed what is now the San Francisco Bay Area as late as 12,000 years ago. The shoreline was 12 miles farther out, and a vast plain stretched from the Golden Gate, where a fast-moving river flowed, to the Farallon Islands.
Herds of mammoths, mastodons, camels, horses, llamas, elk, tapirs, moose and bison would have darkened the Farallon Plain. Mingling with these great herbivores were predators like the short-faced bear, saber-tooth cat, wolf packs and prides of California lion.
"It was a California Serengeti," Parkman said, "only our animals were even more diverse than the Serengeti's.""