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Photograph of a Canada lynx on a rocky ledge against autumn foliage. World map displaying the geographic ranges of lynx species with color-coded areas: the Canada lynx (Lynx canadensis) in orange across Canada and Alaska, the bobcat (Lynx rufus) in green across the United States and parts of Mexico, the Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx) in shades of blue and purple across Europe and northern Asia, and the Iberian lynx (Lynx pardinus) in red in a small region of southwestern Europe. Graph of snowshoe hare and Canada lynx populations over time A small catlike animal with brown fur, a short tail, and hair growing on the tips of its ears stands in snow. A line graph with red and blue shaded areas shows cyclical rises and falls in the populations of snowshoe hares and lynx from 1855 to 1925, illustrating how hare population peaks are followed by lynx population peaks. Small illustrations of a running snowshoe hare and a lynx appear above the graph.
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Canada lynx (Lynx canadensis Kerr, 1792)
The Canada lynx resembles another North American lynx species—the bobcat—and is frequently...
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The geographic ranges of living lynxes
The modern ranges of bobcats (Lynx rufus), the Canada lynx (L. canadensis),...
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Snowshoe hare and Canada lynx populations cycle in synchrony over time
Records of fur sales from 1845 to 1935 maintained by the Hudson's Bay Company helped...
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Canada lynx
Canada lynx (Lynx canadensis).
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population density of the snowshoe hare and the Canada lynx
Cyclic fluctuations in the population density of the snowshoe hare (Lepus americanus)...
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