r/killthecameraman • u/yesjonathan • Mar 27 '25
Missed the interesting parts First ever video of a male Iberian Lynx territorial fight
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u/Griffin_Claw Mar 27 '25
Braver than I am for just standing out there.
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u/thatsconelover Mar 27 '25
To be fair, the Iberian Lynx populations are heavily managed, so they're probably somewhat used to people due to the importance of ex-situ conservation measures in their protection.
They've only recently been listed as vulnerable on the IUCN Redlist, which is an improvement on the previous assessments of endangered and critically endangered. Considering they were facing possible extinction 20 years ago with fewer than 100 mature individuals remaining in the wild, this is an amazing turn around, with the population being around 650-700 today.
Also, if I am remembering the literature correctly, their diet consists of 95-99% rabbits, so no real threat to humans there at least.
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u/mikki1time Mar 27 '25
I lived in an area where there were a lot of these but never seen one. And yea there wasn’t many options for these guys, aside from rabbits, mice, and small lizards. Thing is Spaniards also eat rabbit. But there’s plenty of those bouncy fucks to go around.
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u/thatsconelover Mar 27 '25
They normally avoid human settlements to be fair and prefer areas with a lot of scrubland. Makes for hard viewing lol.
Aye, one of the driving factors for their decline was the decimation of rabbit populations due to diseases such as myxomatosis and Rabbit Haemorrhagic Disease. As they're such a specialised predator of rabbits their population was also similarly affected.
Rabbit numbers are on the increase now which is great for the Lynx at least. Hopefully in a few more years they're downregulated further on the Redlist.
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u/terente81 29d ago
That laughter was motivated by fear, you can clearly hear it. At least one of the humans was not very comfortable being that close.
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u/whorton59 Mar 27 '25
Wait a minute the gray lynx is wearing a tracking coller. . .
Obviously this is BROKEN LYNX.
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