Lynx family

Photo: Sven Začek, www.zacekfoto.ee
 Translation: Liis
Family
 
 Lynx Ilves      
 
The height at shoulders of a female lynx like this one can be up to seventy centimetres, body length about a metre and weight up to 16-17 kilos. The summer fur is more reddish than in winter, the ear tufts nearly non-existent and the fur behind the ears is white and visible in a dusky forest – as anyone knows who has happened to pass by a lynx there for some reason.
 
Typically for all felines they see well in darkness. Eyes are yellow, with round pupils. The kittens that were born at the end of April or beginning of May are now three and a half months old – Sven’s photo is taken in August.
 

For the young the time for learning for life has began.



 

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