This magnificent feline is a protected species since the year 1966,
since when it is trying to combat the threat of extinction, only ten
years its population has halved. Today, it is in very specific areas of
the national territory and the neighbouring country, Portugal.
Inhabits in the woods and where abundant rabbits, as they represent the
basis of their diet. It presents a sleek and slender figure. The pin
out of his face and his long and pointed ears characterize his
physical. Her coat has small brands that are distributed throughout the
body and colors can be of the grayish brown with black spots.
As for their food preference is the rabbit, but also eat small mammals
and partridges and other birds, according to the season varies her
diet. It is a nomadic animal and only in the mating season is
sociabilización, is a solitary feline.
Develops his life at the beginning and end of the day, and especially
in the night. During the winter months remains active throughout the
day. It is a skillful hunter, is silent about his prey and delicately
and with it quickly becomes assaulted by surprise.
Between the first and second month of the year is the time of zeal,
lynxes are matched and after about 70 days' gestation born a litter
usually two cubs may be up to four. After four weeks after birth, the
mother makes another burrow where refugees to their offspring.
Already two months out of hunting with the mother and a year do not
depend on it. The life of a lynx can reach up to 13 years and look as
favourable to its repopulation, are fertile for 10 years.
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The Iberian Lynx