Being an animal advocate this story makes me smile (Chapo is smiling too 😉) and we have to praise the authorities for realising that Capo was better off in the wild. He had told them so in his continual attempts to break free of a captive life. Zoo frees the lynx they couldn’t cage …
This wonderful photograph of a Canada lynx padding its way through snow amply illustrates the enormous paws of this medium-sized wild cat weighing approximately 8-11 kg. It is a wild cat species which closely resembles the bobcat but the paws of the bobcat are much smaller because it has not evolved to live in …
Due to a committed conservation project including a successful captive breeding programme, this is no longer the world’s most endangered wild cat species.
This is a full description of the Eurasian lynx supported by excellent photographs. The source of the information is solid and is mainly from the excellent reference book Wild Cats of the World by Mel and Fiona Sunquist. The pictures below are of a subspecies of the Eurasian lynx: Lynx lynx carpathica or Lynx …
Overview: The Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx) is the largest of the European wildcats. It is also the largest of the subspecies of lynx of which the American bobcat is part. The other is the Canada lynx. The habitat is typically forest and includes the rocky hillsides of northern Europe, Russia and central Asia. The …
Canada lynx are medium-sized wild cats. Sometimes people refer to them as big cats but they are aren’t. They are larger than typical domestic cats but much smaller than the big cats such as the leopard. They weigh approximately 8-11 kilograms (17.6 pounds) to 11 kilograms (24.2 pounds). Surprisingly, perhaps, this is no larger …
Background There are actually three subspecies of lynx which is not specified in the question. So if I am going to answer the question fully I have to refer to each subspecies of lynx. Canada lynx The main prey of Canada lynx is the snowshoe hare and they are basically nocturnal although this cat …
I provide information on the daily travelling distances of the Canada lynx, Eurasian lynx, bobcat and Iberian lynx.
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