Canada Lynx (Felis lynx)
Connecticut's Beardsley Zoo is the home for two lynx, a male and a female. The male is originally from the Minnesota Zoo and was born in May of 1991. The female is from Hogle Zoo in Utah and was born May 1992.
CANADA LYNX FACTS
Description
The Canada Lynx is usually yellowish-brown and sometimes has dark brown spots. The upper parts often have a grizzled gray appearance. The underside is pale buff color.
Canada Lynx (Lynx canadensis)
No photo of the Canada Lynx available.
The Canada Lynx is from the order Carnivora. The Carnivora (or carnivores) are meat eating mammals.
Canada Lynx Behaviour
No observations regarding Canada Lynx behavior have been submitted to the database yet.
Interesting Facts about Canada Lynx ...
The Canada lynx, a member of the cat family, is distinguished by a short body, long legs, large padded feet, and pointed ears tipped with long, black hair.
Characteristics The Canada lynx has very thick, light brown or gray fur with light black spots. It has large ears with long black tufts at the ends. Its tail is short with a black tip at the end.
Canada lynx, American lynx
Lynx canadensis
Due to its snowy habitat, the Canada lynx has adapted by growing a thick coat and snowshoes.
Subspecies
L.c.canadensis L.c.subsolanus.
Canada Lynx in the Great Lakes Region, UMD
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service - Endangered Species Program
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Canada Lynx
Lynx canadensis
With a dense silvery-brown coat, ruffed face, and tufted ears, Canada lynx resemble large domestic cats. Well-suited to living in snow, their large furry feet serve as snowshoes.
Canada lynx eat mice, squirrels, and birds, but prefer the snowshoe hare. The lynx are so dependent on this prey that their populations fluctuate with a periodic plunge in snowshoe hare numbers that occurs about every ten years.
Canada lynxes are negatively associated with topographic complexity [24,59], and typically occur where low topographic relief creates continuous forests of various ages [58,120].
The North American variety of the northern lynx, similar in size and appearance to its Old World counterpart, is also known as the Canada lynx; it ranges from the northern limits of the Canadian forests to the extreme N United States.
Canada lynx (Lynx canadensis)
Bobcat (Lynx rufus)
Leopard (Panthera pardus)
Wildcat (Felis silvestris)
Javan leopard (Panthera pardus melas)
Arabian leopard (Panthera pardus nimr)
Pallas's cat (Otocolobus manul)
Ocelot (Leopardus pardalis) ...
Ever adapting cats: Unlike the larger Canada lynx, which they resemble, Bobcats are often highly adaptable to human-caused changes in environmental conditions; ...
The Iberian lynx is a relative species of the Eurasian lynx, the Canada lynx and the North American bobcat.
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Canada lynx
Location at the Zoo: Canadian Domain
Region:
North America ...
wolves (Canis lupus)
coyotes (Canis latrans)
bears (Ursus)
Canada lynx (Lynx canadensis)
mountain lions (Puma concolor)
Golden eagles (Aquila chrysaetos) ...
RELATIVES:
There are four species in the lynx family: the Eurasian lynx, the Canada lynx, the Spanish or Iberian lynx and the bobcat.
 See also: Lynx, Bobcat, Deer, Snowshoe Hare, Squirrel
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