With A Pounce And A Hop The Speedy Lynx Chases The Bleached White Hare
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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 don’t dig in, and the hare’s 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, it looks gaunt and lanky, but it
is really fast and muscular. The back legs are longer than the fore legs for
better pouncing ability. “From the front the lynx looks royal with its hair on
its face coming out to two points” (Myers 136). The lynx is closely related to
the bobcat, which populates the north American region. The bobcat does not have
big fluffy paws, or is not as big as the lynx in relative size. They have two
different food varieties. The lynx eats hares ,and also may prey on small deer,
dall sheep, grouse, mice. Rarely they feed on fish. On the other hand bobcats
feed on grouse , fish, and other small rodents. Lynx chase and still hunt their
prey. They chase hares or they stay up on cliffs and branches, and waiting to
pounce on the animal as it goes by. The lynx ranges from Alaska, all the way
across Canada. The lynx are usually found in climax forests and dense
undercovers. They are usually found where hares are abundant. If there are no
hares in the vicinity, they travel out into the tundra to find food. “Lynx
breed during March and April. The gestation period is 60 days long” ( Myers
135) . They will have from 1- 4 kittens each year. They usually have dens, where
they keep their kittens, in hollow trees or under a pile of brush. The kittens
stay with the female until well into the next winter. The kittens don’t open
their eyes until 10 days after birth. They also only nurse for 3 to 4 months.
When th...
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