Saturday, October 12, 2024

Minnesota Lynx



That's a big kitty, with such luxurious fur you want to wrap your arms around him and squeeze him good. Not a great idea, because Canada lynx are wild animals that are definitely sharp on five ends. They have strong back legs that are longer than their front legs in order to leap onto prey. They have huge paws that work as snowshoes. They avoid people like the plague. And there aren't nearly enough of them. The Voyageurs Wolf Project has plenty of camera traps in the woods of northern Minnesota to study and document wildlife. Their focus is on wolves, but they caught glimpses of Canada lynx quite a bit over the past year.


3 comments:

Anonymous said...

It wouldn't be safe to hug him but they killed and skinned a lot of them for people to wear. They didn't want to say skin though so they called it a pelt.
xoxoxoBruce

Miss Cellania said...

I once wrote an article about lynx and said you are much more likely to see the back end of one than the front end. They do not want to be your friend.

Anonymous said...

@Miss C From personal experience the 'rear end' part is equally true of domestic cats