A Michael Broad Blog
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 and dominates?’ In this instance we are referring to the Eurasian lynx, the largest of four lynx species: Canada lynx, …
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 ‘can’. THEORETICALLY a Eurasian lynx or even the smaller bobcat and Canada or Iberian lynx could kill a healthy adult …
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 Russia. It is also likely that the cat has been raised from newborn or as a kitten. This has completely …
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 lynx in a standoff (face off) making loud sounds to (a) prevent a fight over territory but at the same …
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 page was created. What is the basis for my theory? Using Darwin’s theories about evolution it is normal for the …
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 in Europe (patchy distribution), through to most of Russia and then Central Asia and also Scandinavia. The very rare Iberian …
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 an added factor in the demise of this species where it lives, in two small areas in southwestern Spain. Climate …
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 into that today but say that plans are afoot to rewild three forests in Britain with the lynx which was …
