22 Facts About Canada lynx

Canada lynx, or Canadian lynx, is a medium-sized North American lynx that ranges across Alaska, Canada, and northern areas of the contiguous United States.

The Canada lynx waits for the hare on specific trails or in "ambush beds", then pounces on it and kills it by a bite on its head, throat or the nape of its neck.

Validity of the subspecific status of the Newfoundland lynx was questioned in 1975, as results of a study of coat colour, cranial measurements and weights of Canada lynx specimens showed that the standard measurements are not significantly distinct, apart from a few variations like the Newfoundland lynx's darker coat.

Canada lynx fossils excavated in North America date back to the Sangamonian and the Wisconsin Glacial Episode.

Canada lynx is a lean, medium-sized cat characterized by its long, dense fur, triangular ears with black tufts at the tips, and broad, snowshoe-like paws.

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The Canada lynx can feel where it is biting the prey with its canines because they are heavily laced with nerves.

Canada lynx can be told apart from the bobcat by its longer ear tufts, broader paws, shorter tail with a fully black tip, longer legs and the fewer markings and greyer shade of the coat.

Canada lynx occurs predominantly in the dense boreal forest of Canada, and its range strongly coincides with that of the snowshoe hare.

The lynx continues to occur in its former range in most of Alaska and Canada.

The Canada lynx was successfully reintroduced in Colorado with a stable population by 2019, after being extirpated from the state in the 1970s.

Canada lynx was shot near Newton Abbot in the United Kingdom in 1903 after it attacked two dogs.

Canada lynx tends to be nocturnal like its primary prey, the snowshoe hare.

The Canada lynx tends to be less selective in summer and autumn, adding small mammals as a minor component of their diet besides the hare.

The Canada lynx is assisted by its stereoscopic vision in detecting prey and measuring distances.

Canada lynx is known to host several parasites including Cylicospirura felineus, Taenia species, Toxocara cati, Toxascaris leonina and Troglostrongylus wilsoni.

Survey of the international wildlife trade between 1980 and 2004 recorded that among all lynxes, the Canada lynx accounted for thirty percent of legal items and had little part in illegal trade.

The Canada lynx is abundant over its broad range and has not been significantly threatened by legal trade for centuries.

The Canada lynx is listed as Endangered in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia.

In 2005, the USFWS demarcated six major areas for revival where Canada lynx reproduction had been reported in the past two decades: northern Maine and New Hampshire, northeastern Minnesota, northwestern Montana and northeastern Idaho, the Kettle River Range and the "Wedge area" between the Kettle and Columbia rivers of Washington, the northern Cascade Range of Washington, and the Greater Yellowstone area of Wyoming, Montana and Idaho.

In scent stations, the Canada lynx is typically lured into camera-monitored areas by skunk scent and a "flasher" such as a bird wing on a string.

Between 1989 and 1992, a reintroduction attempt into New York State was made when 80 lynx were caught in from northwestern Canada and released into the Adirondacks by the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry.

Some released Canada lynx dispersed into the surrounding states of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and the Canadian provinces of Ontario, Quebec and New Brunswick.