A captive Iberian lynx hunts a live rabbit at the La Olivilla Breeding Center in Santa Elena, Spain. Each cat gets one rabbit daily to hone their hunting prowess and prepare them for eventual ...

But the 25-pound Iberian lynx, icon of Spain and Portugal, is on shaky turf. Its wild count is about 225 animals, up from 100 a decade ago but far too low for long-term survival. Hunting ...

The Iberian lynx, once considered a subspecies of the ... The Eurasian lynx is primarily nocturnal, spending its nights hunting and its days resting in dense cover. Eurasian lynxes are also ...

we could be speaking that the Iberian lynx is out of any threat." However, López emphasized that the species weren't completely out of danger. If hunting resurges or the European rabbit declines ...

Very few people have ever seen an Iberian lynx in the wild. Along with being extremely rare, it is also one of the most elusive species in the world. And lives in some of the wildest and most remote ...

more than a hundred thousand Iberian lynx roamed the cork woodlands of southern Spain and Portugal. However, over the following hundred years, a combination of loss of habitat, hunting and lack of ...

The rabbit makes up more than 80% of the Iberian lynx diet, according to the study, but a mix of disease and over-hunting has made the rabbit scarce. Climate change will put the final nail in the ...

Lynx were widespread on the Iberian Peninsula before the early 1900s. Hunting and habitat loss pushed this species to the brink of extinction by 2002, when fewer than 100 lynx could be found in Spain.

They will be judged on their quality, style and originality. Andrés Luis Dominguez Blanco (Spain) shows an Iberian lynx surveying the valley from a rosemary-covered hillside. Spain’s Sierra de Andújar ...

But over the last century a deadly combination of hunting, habitat loss and prey ... In 2005, a female gave birth to the very first litter of Iberian lynx to be born in captivity at the El ...