This scientific guide provides the outcomes of the long-term research on the Eurasian lynx Lynx lynx in Belarus, primarily in Naliboki Forest and Paazierre Forest. Inhabitants construction, breeding, eating regimen and prey provide in addition to the number of behavioural traits have been thought-about. Amongst behavioural questions there have been investigated sociality, looking modes, mating and denning behaviour, territorial marking, sheltering and interspecific interference. The monograph presents not solely the regional features of lynx biology, but additionally consists of many new findings for the Eurasian lynx total.
Among the many new findings in our examine on the Eurasian lynx, I wish to briefly checklist them:
(1) Patched residence vary in reference to the prevailing mode of looking, primarily from ambuscades in sure spots. Such looking spots are located in a number of housing areas inside residence vary. Regarding grownup males, within the chilly season a patched construction of their residence ranges can also be linked with wants of normal guarding of thickets which might be appropriate for mating; and so they begin guarding such habitats since late autumn;
(2) Sophisticated mating-related behaviour in lynxes. Very often winter housing areas of grownup males are prey-poor, and that’s linked with their precedence of guarding of related thickets for mating. When a feminine in warmth searches for an grownup male with related thickets, it’s a prevailed manner of pairing in mating season. Repeated mating i.e. copulation with two males just isn’t uncommon in lynxes;
(3) Strikingly distinctive looking and marking days in grownup males. There are two sorts of looking days in males corresponding to ambush trying to find themselves in housing areas and lively (moving-stalking) foraging for moms with kittens. Primary territorial marking is carried out throughout particular marking days, when grownup males vary outstandingly lots virtually with out looking;
(4) In non-mating seasons grownup females (specifically moms with kittens) mark primarily a number of housing areas, the place they mainly keep;
(5) Grownup and subadult lynxes have been discovered surprisingly social even in non-mating seasons. Lynx couple (grownup male with subadult or grownup feminine collectively) and mom with kittens of the 12 months that accepted a subadult are ordinary phenomenon in social construction of lynxes;
(6) Particulars (dens, timing, care) of denning in lynxes are thought-about. An lively position (defending housing space of mom, some foraging) of grownup male (attainable father) is substantiated;
(7) Prevailed watching-based looking modes of lynxes with implication for fairly excessive every day meals intakes;
(8) Pronounced tree-related habits in lynxes in reference to goals of territorial and mating calls, ambush looking, avoiding of blood-sucking bugs, secure sheltering of kittens;
(9) Inhabitants-wide feeding specializations and individual-distinctive diets in connecting with dynamics of prey inventory;
(10) Effectivity of looking by subadults as a inhabitants bottleneck;
(11) Grownup male lynxes as killers of susceptible wolves and respective unfavorable impact for the wolf inhabitants;
(12) Larger number of lynx marking (than recognized up-to-date) in its efficiency and position in addition to response of different mammals on lynx marking;
(13) Predominantly forest-dwelling behaviour of lynxes associated to wolf presence and a swap to openings, when wolves change into uncommon;
(14) Drastic impact of killing of pink foxes and raccoon canines by lynxes on these sufferer species populations.
The monograph was reviewed by Prof. dr habil. Krzysztof Schmidt from Mammal Analysis Institute, Polish academy of Sciences, Białowieża, Poland.
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