A two years old male of the rare forest predator gets used to the Regional Landscape Park and soon everyone will be able to see it.
“It is a rather big boy born in 2015. It arrived from Riga according to the exchange programme among zoos. There is a female lynx named Reeta in Feldman Ecopark, and the male, that has no name yet, was brought for the animals to breed. Lynxes live in couples and we hope that they will soon have kids. These animals are threatened with extinction, and we are planning to transfer the breed of our lynxes to Ukrainian and European zoos,” Feldman Ecopark’s deputy director of zootechnics Valeriia Ivashchenko tells.
Valeriia Ivashchenko told that after the end of the quarantine period, the male lynx will be accommodated in the enclosure near the female in order the animals to get to know each other through the steel grid. And if they like each other, they will have an opportunity to live together.
It is not the first time when Feldman Ecopark cooperates with Riga Zoological Park. In the end of 2016, a female kiang arrived in the Regional Landscape Park within the frameworks of exchange programme. It is a representative of Equidae family from the Tibetan Plateau. It is also expected that this month, the rock cavy, ibis and many other birds will arrive from the capital of Latvia.
Among the mammals, the lynx is one of the rarest species. Lynxes live in the forests of Eurasia and North America. The body length of an adult lynx may reach 130cm, and the average weight is nearly 25kg. The ears have tufts. This forest predator goes to hunt in the end of night. The prey is usually small rodents, hares and birds, and also young ungulates. The mating season lasts from February to March. Their number significantly decreased because of hunting, as the fur of these animals is very valuable, and because of deforestation.
