IBERIAN LINX
HABITAT
They live
in mountains, in forest and bruishes and in the prairie.They like
the vegetation to rest and they like the prairie because they can hunt for food.
WHERE THEY LIVE?
They only
live in Spain.This is a map of all the Iberian linx:
CHARACTERIES
It is a
feline.It is bigger than a cat.They are stong.They have long legs(because they
need to jump to hunt food),short tail is
11-25 cm(in the end they have a black spot), they ears are big and pointed(they
have a lock black of 4 cm) and the face
has long hair make sideburn(they appear one year ago).They can live 13
years(but they have to be in freedom).The sole are padding and they afford to
move in the snow quietly.They are grey and brown colours.Their eyes are yellow
and green.The male is 12.8kg and the female is 9.3 kg.They have 3 different of
coats:
1 Spot
fine: With a lot of spots, thin and they are uniformly.
2 Spot
thick A: The spots are bigger than the spot fine and they are in lines.
3 Spot thick
B: They are like spot thick A but they aren’t in lines.
FAMILY GROUP
They are
mammals.Because they eat meat and they don´t have eggs.
FOOD
They eat
meat. Usually they eat rabbits(there are 80-90% of their diet), but they don´t
only eat rabbits they also eat partridge, birds and small mammals .In strange
time they eat carrion.They need one rabbit for one day.
REPRODUCION
In
Dicember-April it´s the moment to have couple.The female only cople wich a
male, but a male can cople wich more than one female.The couple separate before
mating.They have to wait 63-70 days to born the baby mammal.The lair normaly is
in caves.The baby mammals only opend the eyes nine or ten days after.
CURIOSITIES
1The Iberian linx is the kind of felines more threaten in the world.
2 There are only wild 1,200.
3 The
rabbits have dicrease and it has effect to the linx.
4 The first
linx born in captivity was born in 2005.
5 They only
live 13 years.