Co-author Irina Rotenko
At the beginning of June, we found wolf pup tracks alongside quite a few lynx footprints nestled between the basis plates of two toppled spruces. We put in a digital camera lure at this location. Following our go to, the wolf pack appeared to have moved elsewhere. The digital camera lure documented numerically repeated visits by a yearling male lynx.
We found that beneath one of many root plates lay a burrow, beforehand unnoticed throughout our preliminary go to. Lynx hair was current within the sand bedding, buried 5-7 cm deep, in addition to recent hair on the cavity wall. The burrow featured a spherical chamber roughly 40-60 cm in diameter, with a 60 cm lengthy passage main from the doorway to the chamber. On the alternative facet, the chamber wall was very skinny, with a small, decayed root that would function a secondary exit in case of hazard.
The subadult male lynx entered the burrow repeatedly, he visited the place nearly each twenty-four hours, whether or not through the day or night time, in sunny or wet climate, and no matter being hungry or sated. His visits to this dwelling place continued till mid-July once we inadvertently scared him away whereas checking the digital camera lure. We surmised that the younger male lynx had adopted his former mom’s lair as his personal shelter. Over time, we’ve got come to acknowledge this habits as typical amongst yearling lynxes. Just lately, we documented one other occasion of a yearling returning to its beginning den.
Beneath you’ll find two footages of the yearling male lynx within the spot.
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