But the lynx—with its ultralight frame and tremendous webbed feet—can tread on top of the six-foot snowpack and pursue its singular passion: snowshoe hares, prey that constitutes 96 percent of ...

Lynx, fox, coyote, and even some birds of prey hunt this wary hare. Like most hares (and rabbits), snowshoe hares are prolific breeders. Females have two or three litters each year, which include ...

This unique relationship allowed Sam to capture some epic never-before-filmed behaviour — including a wild lynx successfully hunting a snowshoe hare. Canada’s lynx are dependent on snowshoe ...

But those dancers’ legs are most valuable for bounding through snow and ice, and they give the lynx an edge when chasing ...

Canada lynx are made for hunting in deep snow, with thick cushions of hair on the soles of their feet that act like built-in snowshoes. Appropriately enough, this adaptation helps them stalk their ...

The life span of both sexes usually falls between 10 and 20 years. FEEDING: The main prey animal of the Canada lynx is the snowshoe hare. Lynx will sometimes eat other small mammals and birds, ...

As hare populations increase, so do those of their predators: lynx and coyotes. Then the hare population plummets and predators start to die off. The cycle is a famous phenomenon among ecologists ...