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.