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Hikers in the Scottish highlands have been warned to steer clear of certain spots after illegally released lynx were spotted in the popular Cairngorms National Park. The wild cats, which are native to ...

The other predators can move on to different prey, but of course the lynx, the naturalist Ernest Thompson Seton wrote in 1911, “lives on Rabbits, follows the Rabbits, thinks Rabbits, tastes like ...

You’d be forgiven for thinking it was an imaginative, if not bloodthirsty, way to get rid of farmers protesting against the new inheritance tax rules. In June, the Lynx UK Trust, an organisation that ...

This northern wildcat thrives in icy forests, using unique winter adaptations to survive harsh landscapes and hunt skilfully in silence. The lynx moves across snow without noise, its specialised paws ...

The Eurasian lynx is so-called because it has been found in forests that stretch from Europe to central Asia, thus distinguishing it as the widest-ranging cat on our planet. Despite this, the species ...

To improve understanding of the complex and variable patterns of predator foraging behavior in natural systems, it is critical to determine how density-dependent predation and predator hunting success ...