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What Does a Lynx Eat?
Wildlife researchers examined stomach contents of 146 lynx killed by hunting between the years 1960-1967 to discover their diet.
Critical Point for Hunting Quotas
Excerpt from the book "Gaupa" ("The Lynx") by Swedish zoologist and lynx expert Stefan Jonsson. Original title: "Lodjur".


Taxonomía del lince ibérico
El lince ibérico (Lynx pardinus) ha sido catalogado como uno de los Carnívoros más amenazado del mundo
Phylogeny and Conservation of Iberian Lynxes
Reprinted from CAT NEWS: the newsletter of the Cat Specialist Group of The World Conservation Union (IUCN)


National Geographic Captives in the Wild
Here is a condensed version of Craig Packer's article that appeared in National Geographic in April 1992, which provides insight on the lack of genetic diversity that puts wildlife populations at risk when they become isolated as a result of habitat fragmentation, whether by natural occurrence or by human activity.

National Geographic Genetic Erosion -- A Global Dilemma
Written by Stephen J. O'Brien, this supplement to Craig Packer's Lions of Ngorongoro Crater article also explores the genetic implications of inbreeding.
  • Cheetah Grafting Experiment: an update
    Scientists led by geneticist Stephen O'Brien began exploring the genetic troubles of cheetahs in the early 1980s. Researchers M. A. Sanjayan and Kevin Crooks of the University of California, used pocket gophers in the first attempt to repeat the 1985 experiment on wild animals. Just as with the cheetahs, gophers in populations with little genetic variation accepted skin grafts from one another.

Velvet Claw "Exactly when the story of the cats began depends on what qualifies as a cat, which is controversial. The problem is exacerbated by the fact that early cats lived in forests, where fossils rarely form, and there are few remains of the middle ear bones that distinguish Carnivore families from each other."
-- Chapter Two: Sharpening the Tooth page 43

Coming Soon!
A short version on the evolution of felids, based on The Velvet Claw by David Macdonald, head of Oxford University's Wildlife Conservation Research Unit, and Chairman of IUCN's Survival Service Commission Canid Specialist Group.