* Eurasian lynx
*Canada lynx
*Iberian lynx
*Bobcat
The felids have short, arched skulls with elongated canines and an evolutionary reduction of molars above and below. Behind the enormous shearing carnassials little remains with which to chew. The cats stab slice and swallow. Lynx were once widespread in the forest and forest-steppe regions of the Old World.
Their vast geographic distribution extended from Sweden and Norway in the northwest south to the Iberian Peninsula, eastward through northern Italy, Switzerland, Austria and the Carpathians, Balkans and Caucasus to Turkey and east to northern Iraq and Iran.
The Iberian lynx is the world’s most endangered felid and thee only wild cat to be classified as Critically Endangered. About 250 individual remain in the wild in two small isolated populations in southern Spain.
Eurasian lynx are the most widespread of the four large carnivore species and are, together with wolverine, responsible for the greatest losses of livestock.
Lynx
