Photo category:
Mountainous conifers - southern Bulgaria
Vertebrates specimen collection
Natural History Museum of Crete exhibition

  • Photo taken by:
    Trikali, M.
  • Photo taken date:
    March 2013
Lynx
Carnivores
Mammals
Animals
Vertebrates
Mountainous conifers (southern Bulgaria) diorama

Photo of a Lynx, Lynx lynx, a feline of the forests, occupying average altitudes of Eurasia. In Europe the distribution of the Lynx became limited in the 20th century. It feeds on small mammals and land birds, but also on larger prey such as the Red deer and the Roe deer. It hunts by ambush.