The common lynx or northern lynx
PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS
The lynx resembles a large cat. However its ears are finished by a brush of black and stiff hairs.
The lynx has an excellent sight and a direction of the very developed sense of smell. It is able to feel the odor of a roe-deer which is 600 away m or of a rabbit to more than 300 Mr.
It is especially active the night. The day, he drowses on a branch or in a natural shelter.
It measures approximately of 70 cm with 1 Mr. His weight adult varies between 11 kg and 42 kg. With the birth the small ones weigh between 195 G and 210 G.
Its teeth are much more powerful than that of a cat. Its eyes are 6 times more significant in the half-light than those of the man.
Its long favorites enable him to collect all the noises. Its feet rounded and widened make easier its moving in thick snow to him.
DISTRIBUTION
The lynx is a territorial animal and recluse who lives mainly in medium forest. He lives as well in plain as in mountain. The type of forest imports to him little because one as well finds it in the Mediterranean forests as in the forests of conifers of the north of Europe.
The vital domain of the lynx is variable and very wide. It varies between 100 km² and 500 km². It varies mainly according to the sex, the period of the year and the abundance of the preys. The territory of an adult male recovers that of one or more females in general.
DIET
Its territory of hunting, very wide, can reach about twenty square kilometers. It drives out the ungulates such as the roe-deers or the chamois. But it can be also satisfied with smaller preys like hare, rabbit, the field vole, the fox, the skunk or the small deer or attack a wildcat to devour it. If he prefers the fresh preys, sometimes the circumstances oblige it to eat carrions.
