Canada Lynx

The Canada lynx is a medium-sized wild cat native to the boreal forests of Canada, Alaska, and the northern United States. It has long legs, large padded paws adapted for moving across deep snow, tufted ears, and a short, black-tipped tail. Its population and range are tightly linked to that of its primary prey, the snowshoe hare, and lynx numbers rise and fall in a well-documented cycle that tracks hare abundance roughly every ten years. It is a solitary, mainly nocturnal hunter and is closely related to the Eurasian lynx and bobcat, with which its range overlaps in parts of southern Canada and the northern United States.