The iberian lynx, As mysterious as a sphinx. Rebounding suceess. Yes, yes, yes.
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![Iberian Lynx Slinks Back From Brink of Extinction Within Just Two Decades of Conservation Iberian Lynx Slinks Back From Brink of Extinction Within Just Two Decades of Conservation](https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/credit-LIFE-project-NAT-E-008609-Lynx-pardinus-European-Environment-Agency-e1718956341808.jpg)
Iberian Lynx Slinks Back From Brink of Extinction Within Just Two Decades of Conservation
The greatest feline conservation success story isn’t the doubling of the world tiger population, nor the rescues of the Amur tiger and Northern lion from falling into the abyss of biological history—it’s the comeback of a lynx species on the Iberian Peninsula. This scrawny, mottled cat with characteristic pointed ears and tufts of fur all […]
![New research shows, two closely-related species of wild cats in Ontario, Canada, may face starkly different futures. Is this "survival of the fittest?" New research shows, two closely-related species of wild cats in Ontario, Canada, may face starkly different futures. Is this “survival of the fittest?”](https://focusingonwildlife.com/news/wp-content/uploads/new-research-shows-two-closely-related-species-of-wild-cats-in-ontario-canada-may-face-starkly-different-futures-is-this-survival-of-the-fittest.jpg)
New research shows, two closely-related species of wild cats in Ontario, Canada, may face starkly different futures. Is this “survival of the fittest?”
To the untrained eye, the two species might pass as overgrown house cats. They’re actually “felids” or mammals belonging to felidae, a family of wild cats. Both live side by side in the wilds of Ontario, north of Lake Huron. Researchers at the University of Trent in Peterborough, Ontario, looked at bobcat and lynx numbers, […]
![Florida Bobcat: Lynx rufus Florida Bobcat: Lynx rufus](https://focusingonwildlife.com/news/wp-content/uploads/blank.png)
Florida Bobcat: Lynx rufus
I did a post of Florida’s Bobcats (Lynx rufus) some time back, but it just disappeared from the blog. I am reposting these photos as I love watching these cats. We live in a large subdivision bordered by an even larger preserve, so these bobcats thrive on rabbits, squirrels, and, I suppose the occasional loose […]