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The Canada lynx is a case study both in how animals can evolve to fit very specific environmental niches and the direct effect that prey population fluctuations can have on their health. The diet ...
Northern lynx prey largely on small to fairly large sized mammals and birds. Among the recorded prey items are European and mountain hares, rabbits, red squirrels, Siberian flying squirrels, dormice, mice, mustelids (such as martens), grouse, red foxes, raccoon dogs, wild boar, roe deer, moose, red deer and other medium-sized ungulates.
Four species of cats occurred in California. One was recently extirpated. Canada lynx, Lynx canadensis (vagrant) [3] Bobcat, Lynx rufus (harvest) [4] Jaguar, Panthera onca (extirpated 1826) Cougar, Puma concolor; Order: Carnivora Family: Mustelidae. Sea otter, Enhydra lutris; Wolverine, Gulo gulo (vagrant) North American river otter, Lontra ...
Lynx in Britain were wiped out in the 17th century, but there have been calls to reintroduce them to curb the numbers of deer. [35] The endangered Iberian lynx lives in southern Spain and formerly in eastern Portugal. [needs update] There is an Iberian lynx reproduction center outside Silves in the Algarve in southern Portugal.
Hundreds of years after lynx last roamed wild in Scotland, two have been captured in the Highlands. Then two more lynx were spotted in the same area where these wild cats were captured. Where did ...
American lynx may refer to: American Lynx cat, an experimental breed of short-haired, short-tailed domestic cat; as of 2017 it is recognized only by the Rare & Exotic Feline Registry; Genus Lynx wild cats in the Americas: Canada lynx (Lynx canadensis), a North American wild cat, ranging from the northern United States, through Canada, to Alaska
Lynx baileyi proposed by Clinton Hart Merriam in 1890 was a female lynx that was shot in the San Francisco Mountains. [8] Lynx texensis proposed by Joel Asaph Allen in 1895 to replace the earlier name Lynx rufus var. maculatus. [9] Lynx gigas proposed by Outram Bangs in 1897 was a skin of an adult male lynx shot near Bear River, Nova Scotia. [10]
Shambala Preserve is an animal sanctuary established in 1972 and located in Acton, California, a desert community 10 miles (16 km) southwest of Palmdale, off of California State Route 14 and 40 miles (64 km) north of Los Angeles.