Canada Lynx

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Canada Lynx

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カナダオオヤマネコ
Character Data
AKA Canadian lynx
Romaji Kanadaooyamaneko
Debut Kemono Friends 3
Animal Data
Scientific Name Lynx canadensis
Distribution Canada, Alaska
Diet Carnivore
Avg. Lifespan 10-15 years
Read More Canada Lynx
Conservation Status iucn3.1 LC.svg.png
Canada Lynx KF3 Gallery

Canada Lynx is a type of feline Friend first appeared in a photo in the mobile game Kemono Friends 3.

Appearance

Canada Lynx wears a sleeveless shirt, spotted grey skirt, and spotted arm covers. Se has golden eyes, grey hair with black markings and white sideburns.

Series Appearances

Appearances In Kemono Friends Media
Media Role
2019Kemono Friends 3 Minor character , playable

In Real Life

A Canada Lynx. Photo by Michael Zahra, 2010.

The Canada lynx (Lynx canadensis) is a medium-sized North American lynx. It is famous for its tufted ears, long, dense fur, and snowshoe-like paws. They can be found across Alaska, Canada, and northern areas of the United States.

These mid-sized felines typically measure 73 and 107 cm. (29 and 42 in.) in total length and stand 48–56 cm (19–22 in) tall at the shoulder. They are sexually dimorphic, with males being significantly larger than females: Females weigh around 5–12 kg (11–26 lb.) whereas males around 6–17 kg (13–37 lb.). An interesting feature is their hind legs- like bobcats, their hind legs are longer than the front legs. This makes their backs slope downward.

The hind legs are longer than its front legs, causing it to slope downward toward the front. Photo by Keith Williams.

Their signature fluffy coat is solid colored with no markings except towards the underside. The coat's thickness provides warmth and protection in the lynx's chilly home. Fur color ranges from yellowish brown to brown to buff gray, depending on the location. The length also varies depending on the season, being shorter in the summer and longer in the winter. Their tail tips are completely black.

The lynx's primary habitat is in the dense boreal forest of Canada. This habitat range strongly coincides with that of the snowshoe hare. In the United States, it can be found in the Blue Mountains and the Cascade Range, the Rocky Mountains, the northern Great Lakes region, and northern New England. The highest recorded elevation they've been found is 4,310 m (14,140 ft.). They generally avoid open areas despite good prey availability. Heavily logged lands and agricultural land are difficult for it to survive in, but can thrive in deforested areas that have been left to regenerate. It is considered to be extirpated in several US states, including New York, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Nevada, Indiana, and Ohio.

The Canada lynx has long hair on the lower cheek and ear tufts. Photo by Michael Zahra.

A nocturnal predator, the Canada Lynx hunts mainly at night, like its staple prey the Snowshoe Hare. However some lynxes have been seen hunting in the daytime. By walking, climbing, and even swimming, a single lynx can cover up to 8–9 km (5.0–5.6 mi) daily. One account tells of a Canada lynx swimming 3.2 km (2 mi) across the Yukon River. They are also known to avoid predators by climbing and hiding in trees, however they will return to the ground to hunt.

Canada Lynxes have a predator-prey cycle relationship with Snowshoe Hares- the hares make up about 35–97% of their diet. The lynx responds to the cyclic rises and falls of the hare populations over the years: lynx populations increase with an increasing hare population. Conversely, if the hare population decreases in a given area, the lynx will move to areas with more hares. If there are instances where the hare population drops drastically, Canada Lynxes will search for other options, including ducks, grouse, moles, ptarmigan, American red squirrels, voles, wild sheep, deer, and even young Boreal woodland caribou. Scavenging is also common, animals killed by cold or vehicles are considered fair game.

Solitary by nature, Canada Lynxes tend to avoid each other unless it's mating season. The season is a month long (March to April). Females are pregnant for two to three months, after which a litter of one to eight kittens is born. Most litters are born between May and July. Kits are blind for the first two weeks and are weaned after about 12 weeks. Female kits will stay close to their mother's home range for the rest of their life while male kits will move far away. Canada lynxes have been reported to live sixteen years in the wild, though most do not survive ten. In human care, however, they may make it to twenty-seven.

Despite being threatened by the fur trade, the hunted numbers are kept in check by hunting seasons and quotas, on population data. Even though bobcat and Canada lynx furs appeared to be in greater demand than those of other lynxes in Asian and European markets, the average illegal trade in fur and live animals appears to be negligible on the national scale. This means the populations and the hunting regulations are in sync enough that the species numbers are not terribly affected. Since the Canada lynx population is stable over its wide habitat range and has not been significantly threatened by (legal) pelt trade for several centuries, the IUCN classifies it as Least Concern.

Trivia

  • Another common name is the Canadian Lynx.
  • It was first described by writer Robert Kerr in 1792.
  • Three subspecies have been proposed, but nothing has ever been made official; it is mostly considered a monotypic species.
  • The skeletal muscles make up about 56.5 % of their body weight.
  • A Canada lynx was shot near Newton Abbot in the United Kingdom in 1903 after it attacked two dogs. It is considered "the earliest recorded example of an exotic cat on the loose in the UK".

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