lat.: Lynx lynx

Characterized by disproportionately long legs and large, heavy paws. Lynx are stout-bodied animals, about 90 cm (about 3 ft) in maximum length, with thick, soft fur, and short, stubby tails. Species has a tuft of hair, more than 2 cm (0.78 in) long, at the tip of each ear. Lynx are valued for their fur.

Subspecies
Another well-known species is the caracal, L. caracal, of Africa and southern Asia. The bobcat, L. rufus, known also as the wildcat, is widespread in the U.S. except for the midwestern Corn Belt. The Canada lynx, L. canadensis, is found from the northern U.S. throughout Canada and Alaska; it is the largest species in North America, measuring 90 cm (3 ft) in total length, with a tail length of about 10.2 cm (about 4 in). The back is dark gray streaked with chestnut, and the belly is grayish white. The species feeds chiefly on snowshoe hares

Lynx are agile climbers, spending much of their time in good weather on the limbs of trees, waiting for the weaker mammals and terrestrial birds that constitute their prey to pass beneath them. In inclement weather and when breeding, lynx live in caves or in hollow trees or logs. Two to four kittens make up the average litter.

Diet
Small animals, hare, small deer, birds

Habitat
Unpopulated areas, forests and parks.

Area
Europe (endangered), East Europe, Russia, Caukasus

Norway, Finland, Sweden, Canada, USA-Alaska, Russia, Rumania, Mexico, Belarus, Turkey, Slowenia