Diet
About 75% of the lynx's diet is made up of the
snowshoe hare. It also eats birds, meadow voles, carrion, and sometimes larger animals like deer and caribou. The Canada lynx often stores leftover kill by covering it with snow. Adult lynx are solitary hunters, although a mother and her young often hunt together. It usually hunts at night and stalks its prey before pouncing on it. The lynx can climb trees and often waits on a branch for passing prey.
Life Cycle
During mating season, the male follows a female. Lynx mate between February and March. Two months after mating, the female gives birth to one to six kittens. The average litter has two to four kittens. The kittens have soft streaked and spotted fur. They are fully weaned at around three months, but start eating meat when they are as young as one month old. The kittens stay with their mother for their first year. Once they leave their mother, the young lynxes may stay together for a short period of time.
Behavior
Lynx are territorial and solitary. The
home ranges of females may overlap and a male's and a female's range may overlap, but male's ranges are separate.
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