Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Iberian Lynx CNRLI reproduction centre near Silves, Portugal Queen Sofía of Spain and María Dolores de Cospedal release an Iberian lynx at "El Castañar", the finca of the Duke of Pastrana in Mazarambroz, Spain. In 2002, the Jerez Zoo confirmed it had three females and was developing a plan for a captive breeding program.
An Iberian lynx typically gives birth to three cubs. The morbidity rate is approximately 33% before the end of the third year. Despite the odds, dedicated and targeted conservation efforts have ...
The bobcat is thought to have arised from a dispersal across the Bering Land Bridge during the Early Pleistocene, around 2.5-2.4 million years ago, with the Iberian lynx suggested to have speciated around 1 million years ago, at the end of the Early Pleistocene, the Eurasian lynx is thought to have evolved from Asian populations of Lynx ...
The Eurasian lynx was close to extinction in Scandinavia in the 1930s. Since the 1950s, the population slowly recovered and forms three subpopulations in northern, central and southern Scandinavia. [14] In Norway, the Eurasian lynx was subjected to an official bounty between 1846 and 1980 and could be hunted without license. In 1994, a ...
Just short of 100cm (39 inches) in length and 45cm in height, the Iberian lynx is a rare sight. But there are now more than 2,000 in the wild across Spain and Portugal, so you're much more likely ...
Eurasian lynx, Lynx lynx LC; Iberian lynx, Lynx pardinus VU (Spain and Portugal) Lion Panthera leo VU (extirpated) (Caucasus and southeastern Europe) Persian leopard, Panthera pardus tulliana EN (P. pardus: VU) (Dagestan, Northern Caucasus, European Russia) [10] [11] Caspian tiger, Panthera tigris tigris EX (P. tigris EN) (Ukraine, Southern ...
After decades of conservation work, the Iberian lynx has made a remarkable recovery. A new initiative is using a high-tech system to protect the wild cat from one of its deadliest enemies: road ...
Iberian lynx louse: Felicola isidoroi: Andújar, Spain Only known from a male adult and a nymph found on a dead Iberian lynx in 1997, itself a critically endangered species with low population density and disjunct distribution at the time. Besides difficulties in mixing and exchanging populations, the lice was threatened by the fact that lynxes ...