lynx

IBERIAN LYNX

MADE BY: DIEGO,ALVARO, DANIEL AND PABLO

INDEX

Causes

Endangered species

Characteristics

Habitat

Nutrition

Reproduction

Customs

What is an endangered specie?

It is an animal that has many possibilities to disappear. Another endangered animals are the polar bear, the panda bear or the elephant.

CHARACTERISTICS

• Larger than a cat
• Long legs and short tail with a black tassel at the end
• Ears with brushes composed of black hairs
• Sideburns from the cheeks that increase in size with age
• From brown to gray lynxs

Causes of endangerment

• Firstly, scarcity of his principal food, the rabbits
• Destruction of his natural habitat.
• Accident on the roads because they live in busi areas.
• Deforestation, contamination...
• Human actions like hunting or destruction of his habitat make that the number decrease.

NUTRITION

HABITAT

It is the only carnivore considered as a specialist in rabbits. It also consumes partridges, mammals and birds

• In areas of Spain an Portugal
• In Spain, in Andalucía and Toledo mounts

reproduction

customs

Its gestation lasts 62 days. It´s the mother who takes care of the little lynxs. After 2 months they are able to accompany their mother in the hunts.

In most cases, it lives in a solitary and nomadic way, showing himself more sociable in the time of zeal.It is an agile hunter. He sneaks up to the piece and jumps on it quickly