Co-author Irina Rotenko
In Naliboki Forest (the central-northern Belarus) in addition to in different habitats in a person lynx residence vary there are quite a bit websites, that are utilized by the person lynx for a variety of functions.
Amongst such websites might be distinguished the next their varieties: marking factors; sleeping or usually resting websites; lairs (breeding dens); looking ambuscades; grooming websites; refuges to keep away from blood-sucking bugs and(or) precipitations; playgrounds of kittens; locations, the place mom lynx can nurse kittens safely and go away them alone for some time. Marking factors are essentially the most quite a few websites of lynxes; notably grownup males have a whole bunch of them. Nevertheless, nearly every lynx has not just a few personal websites of the opposite above-listed varieties.
In lots of instances the native habitat situations and web site specificity can fulfill essentially the most of lynx necessities resembling sleeping and grooming in a dry spot with out a lot disturbance from blood-sucking bugs and(or) precipitations; efficient looking ambuscade; appropriate marking level; related and secure spot to stick with kittens. Such type of websites are normally visited by lynxes fairly typically. In response to the gained outcomes (Sidorovich, 2022), spatial construction of the lynx inhabitants in Belarus (in Naliboki Forest notably) is packed; in an grownup male residence vary one to 3 mom lynxes with kittens or non-breeding grownup females in addition to subadult lynxes dwell repeatedly. Due to this fact, such multi-functional lynx websites might be visited and used commonly by totally different people.
Within the beneath video and pictures you will note the lynx web site, which was traced by us throughout seven years and the place we registered 6 totally different grownup males, 4 moms with kittens (one of many moms used the location for 4 years, whereas different mom was registered there for 2 years), and 5 smaller lone lynxes maybe subadults. Throughout these seven years ten days was sufficient to get one lynx go to of this web site. Typically, lynxes visited the location each day and even a number of occasions (as much as 3 times) per twenty-four hours. The frequency of utilization of the location by lynxes evidently relied on the species inhabitants density in Naliboki Forest. When there have been 4-6 lynxes per 100 sq. km, one lynx go to of the location was documented for 3-5 twenty-four hours on common, whereas after the decline within the lynx native inhabitants as much as 1-3 inds per 100 sq. km one lynx go to of the location was registered for 7-11 twenty-four hours on common.
Within the web site lynxes have been grooming, resting, generally sleeping; they evidently stayed for an ambush looking; used the location as a playground for kittens; mom lynxes nursed kittens or kittens have been consuming one thing that their mom introduced; moms left kittens within the web site for some time to go for looking; additionally, lynxes marked the location incessantly by urine, pores and skin gland secreting, and by scats generally.
The lynx web site consists of a line of 5 massive root plates of uprooted huge spruces, that are stretched on the fringe of treefall. On the inside facet of those root plates, it’s dry and no wind normally. Alongside the sting of treefall simply behind of the foundation plates there’s a pathway, by which appropriate prey of lynxes (roe deer, pink deer (calves), wild boars (piglets), raccoon canine, pink foxes, mountain hares stroll not occasionally. Furthermore, close by the lynx web site on the treefall edge a small latest clearcut located. On this clearcut with early reforestation the above-mentioned potential prey of lynxes feed typically. So, the lynxes that keep within the web site at uprooted spruces can relaxation, groom, sleep and use an ambush looking on the identical time. Within the web site a number of trunks of fallen bushes located about two metres as excessive. Moreover within the treefall close by the lynx web site there are standing bushes. Due to this fact, kittens staying within the spot can escape on the peak simply, if there’s a hazard.
Within the higher video and pictures which are given beneath you see some registrations of lynxes within the web site.
