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I think a middle ground can be found. While I really love the Toronto zoo, watching their lynx pace back and forth in the cage, digging a path into the ground,
by mabbo 7y ago
I think a middle ground can be found.
While I really love the Toronto zoo, watching their lynx pace back and forth in the cage, digging a path into the ground, that really impacted my impression of zoos generally. Perhaps large[0] cats like that don't belong in small enclosures.
[0]Lynx are actually much smaller than I expected, and bobcats even smaller than that. Still, they need a large space to thrive.
- magduf 7y agoI've seen a lynx (mountain lion) close-up too, and they're not small. They're the height of a medium size dog, but far more muscular. They can easily take down a human, and have been known to kill humans (usually women) when very hungry and too close to civilization. Of course, they're not the size of a Siberian tiger; those things are huge. As for needing a large space to thrive: that would be nice, but they can't really live in the wild in most places any more because stupid humans will kill them. This is the whole reason deer are so overpopulated in many places in the US; lynxes are their normal predators.