An angry lynx spits at a mealtime offering from Whitehorse trapper Ken Reeder

Missed connections and agitated travellers are synonymous with airports everywhere, but recently among the stranded at Vancouver International Airport was a vexed mother lynx from the Yukon and her five kittens. The animals had missed their flight to New York and a new home in the Adirondack Mountains. Canadian Geographic Magazine June/July 1990 Vol. 110, No3 p6 The lynx were following several dozen others flown through the Vancouver terminal in the last year to repopulate their species in the northern part of New York state. By this spring, 40 of the animals from Canada had been released under the Adirondacks Wildlife Program, which is run by the state university in co-operation with the Yukon government. Last year, 18 lynx were released in the Adirondacks. About twice the size of an average domestic cat, lynx have ruffs on their faces, tufted ears and large paws. The animals are caught hy Yukon trappers who are paid $1,300 for a female lynx and $450 for a male. Lynx lived in the Adirondacks until the turn of the century, when logging destroyed much of their habitat.

Comments to: Nancy 10-06-1997