Alaskan Lynx
With a pounce and a hop the speedy lynx chases the bleached white hare through the bushes. Poof! The hare disappears into the shiny white powder. Then the sly lynx picks up the scent of the hare and pounces toward the small hairball. The sharp elongated claws donÕt dig in, and the hareÕs long slender legs launch himself out of the hole and out of danger. The swift cat swings his claws around to hit the fast hare, but he hits the snow right under his back legs. The hare runs right between two willow trees and into a narrow opening which has a bunch of fallen willow trees. The hare has escaped from the lynx this one time, but the lynx will find other food. The lynx is a pale brown to brownish grey with black streaks on its neck, forehead, and on the back. It has a short tail, long tuffed ears, long slender legs, wide feet for control in the snow, and long very soft fur. The lynx will grow to be 30 to 40 inches long, and 24 to 28 inches high from feet to shoulders. They usually weight 15 to 45 pounds. When you see the lynx, at first sight
ÒLynx,Ó Alaska Mammals, (December 1981) vol. One place in the Tanana Valley may have all the things that a lynx needs so there will be lots of kits born and the population will increase. They also only nurse for 3 to 4 months. In the years when lynx are abundant, a good trapper may take a dozen in a month. It sits there calmly accepting its death. The lynx are sensitive to bright light, because their eyes are made to see at night. ÒEvery year trappers take from $8,000 to $10,000 in money from lynx peltsÓ (Reader 52). These tricky mammals have lots of things that amaze me like they may eat big animals like dall sheep and deer. The weird thing about the lynx is when it is in a trap. The gestation period is 60 days longÓ ( Myers 135) .
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