Canada lynx / Cat History / evolution / Lynx / Wild Cat Species
August 22, 2023
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...
February 3, 2022
Due to a committed conservation project including a successful captive breeding programme, this is no longer the world’s most endangered wild cat species.
January 23, 2022
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...
January 17, 2022
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...
February 18, 2021
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...
November 3, 2020
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....
April 12, 2020
I provide information on the daily travelling distances of the Canada lynx, Eurasian lynx, bobcat and Iberian lynx.
April 6, 2020
Do wolves kill lynx? Yes. An alternative question would be ‘Can a lynx kill a wolf’ or ‘Where the lynx and wolf are sympatric (share the same landscape) which animal pushes the other out...
February 22, 2020
This is one of those debatable questions because as there are no records of lynx killing humans we have to speculate and theorise, which lends itself to debate and argument. The operative word is...
February 21, 2020
We are not told what species of cat this is so I’ll speculate. I believe that this large wild cat is a Eurasian lynx. If I’m correct then the video was probably made in...
June 25, 2019
The news media have described this as caterwauling but I would not call it that because strictly speaking caterwauling is a vocalisation employed for long distance mating calls. This is a couple of male...
April 13, 2017
Lynx have prominent ear tufts because they help to communicate. That is my assessment. There is no official assessment. You can’t look up the answer in a book or on the internet; until this...
June 19, 2015
The four species of lynx live in different places although there is a wide overlap between the bobcat and Canada lynx. The Canada lynx lives in North America (mainly Canada). The Eurasian lynx lives...
March 14, 2015
Anne-Marie Hodge writing for the Ecology Global Network paints a bleak picture of the survival of the Iberian lynx (Lynx pardinus), the rarest of all wild cat species. She says that climate change is...
March 8, 2015
The lynx is one of the most beautiful cats. We should know as it is ‘harvested‘ annually, year-on-year, for its coat in North America (including the bobcat, a subspecies of lynx). I won’t delve...
