26 Facts About Eurasian lynx

Eurasian lynx is a medium-sized wild cat widely distributed from Northern, Central and Eastern Europe to Central Asia and Siberia, the Tibetan Plateau and the Himalayas.

Felis Eurasian lynx was the scientific name used in 1758 by Carl Linnaeus in his work Systema Naturae.

Eurasian lynx has a relatively short, reddish or brown coat that is marked with black spots; their number and pattern are highly variable.

Eurasian lynx was once widespread throughout most of continental Europe.

Eurasian lynx was close to extinction in Scandinavia in the 1930s.

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In Norway, the Eurasian lynx was subjected to an official bounty between 1846 and 1980 and could be hunted without license.

In Great Britain, subfossil remains of Eurasian lynx have been dated to the early Middle Ages, though a breeding population in the Southern Uplands of Scotland was noted as late as 1760.

Large Eurasian lynx that hunted deer and livestock, sometimes called "tiger" and "deer's wolf", was reported in Green Spain until the 19th century.

However, genetic testing of remains showed that the Eurasian and Iberian lynx coexisted into recent times in the Iberian Peninsula with little overlap, the Eurasian lynx being present in temperate broadleaf and mixed forests and the Iberian lynx in Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub.

The Eurasian lynx of Spain was a unique, extinct lineage more related to the Carpathian and Baltic subspecies.

Eurasian lynx migrated to Austria, where they had been exterminated.

Eurasian lynx was exterminated in the French Alps in the early 20th century.

In Nepal, a Eurasian lynx was sighted in the western Dhaulagiri massif in 1975.

Eurasian lynx makes a range of vocalizations, but is generally silent outside of the breeding season.

In keeping with its larger size, the Eurasian lynx is the only lynx species to preferentially take ungulates .

The Eurasian lynx thus prefers fairly large ungulate prey, especially during winter, when small prey is less abundant.

In Estonia, a typical adult Eurasian lynx kills about 60 roe deer a year; in the years when the roe deer population plummets, the Eurasian lynx switch to beavers, hares, foxes, raccoon dogs, and birds.

In ten other study sites in the Black Sea region of northern Anatolia where roe deer can occur in high densities, Eurasian lynx occurrence is positively correlated with European hare occurrence rather than roe deer.

Eurasian lynx hunt using both vision and hearing, and often climb onto high rocks or fallen trees to scan the surrounding area.

The Eurasian lynx saves itself from its enemies by quickly climbing a tree or a cliff; it usually lives near a 'stronghold' place and eats its food in a high tree or cliff.

Lynx populations decrease when wolves appear in a region such as observed in the Pritelsk region of the Altai Mountains, and Eurasian lynx are likely to take smaller prey where wolves are active.

However, there is a reported instance of a male Eurasian lynx having expelled an adult and apparently healthy male wolf in Belarus in a fight.

In years of low hare populations, the competition becomes especially strong, and the Eurasian lynx is at a disadvantage because its competitors are able to secure other prey more efficiently.

Claws and bones analysed showed that sub-adult Eurasian lynx were the victims of cannibalism during the mating and spring seasons.

Brown bears, although not a predator of Eurasian lynx, are in some areas a semi-habitual usurpers of ungulate kills by lynxes, not infrequently before the cat has had a chance to consume its kill itself.

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Eurasian lynx is included on CITES Appendix II and listed as a protected species in the Berne Convention on the Conservation of European Wildlife and Natural Habitats, Appendix III.