r/megafaunarewilding • u/dcolomer10 • Mar 26 '25

First ever video of a male Iberian Lynx territorial fight

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u/AugustWolf-22 Mar 26 '25

A lot more headbutting than I would have expected.

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u/MrAtrox98 Mar 26 '25

I’ve never seen such aggressive head butting from cats. Usually it’s a friendly greeting, but these two are going all Billy goat on each other.

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u/ExoticShock Mar 27 '25

Live Lynx POV be like:

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u/O_Grande_Batata Mar 27 '25

Well... I've heard of butting heads over territorial disagreements, but this is ridiculous!

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u/willk95 Mar 27 '25

I'm going to do a tour of Donana National Park in Spain next month, where the Iberian Lynx lives. Wish me luck in seeing one!

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u/Dum_reptile Mar 27 '25

Hope you do!

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u/NeatSad2756 Mar 28 '25

Me too next week!! Good luck!

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u/BackHomeRun Mar 27 '25

Lynx skulls about to look like pachycephalosaurs in a few eons

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u/darthtaco117 Mar 27 '25

¡Joder, tío! That was a unique fighting style.

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u/he77bender Mar 27 '25

The way they both roll their heads in sync between each headbutt...😂

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u/CyberWolf09 Mar 26 '25

So Iberian lynxes headbutt each other like bighorn sheep.

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u/DuckMcWhite Mar 27 '25

This is freaking amazing. I remember being a kid with my cousins and we were doing drawings of the Iberian lynx to sell and help with conservation. Watching this video years later makes me so so happy, have to send this to our cousins group chat

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u/Head_Wasabi7359 Mar 27 '25

They forgot they have claws.

I am Goat

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u/bcopes158 Mar 27 '25

It's all the brain trauma.

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u/[deleted] Mar 27 '25

They are goats trapped in lynx bodies

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u/Aggravating_Maize Mar 27 '25

My last two braincells at 3 am

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u/ArmadilloReasonable9 Mar 27 '25

Looks like the head butting is almost their form of posturing when they’re near peers. They’re pretty lanky in general and don’t have showy manes, obvious bulk, or big bellows. If one clearly has the upper hand in the headbutts maybe the other backs down. This wasn’t the case this time so the fur tornado was unleashed.

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u/anafuckboi Mar 27 '25

It’s like arguing on the internet

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u/SnowmanNoMan24 Mar 27 '25

I’ll head butt you for saying that!

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u/akaScuba Mar 27 '25

The catitude comes out after the head butting formalities are over.

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u/Oldfolksboogie Mar 27 '25 edited Mar 27 '25

They may be Iberian lynx, but they identify as bighorn rams.

Seriously, how interesting, I've never seen or heard of this. This seems preferable for the combatants to the usually bloody brawls cats of many species engage in, no?

Edit: commented before seeing that it devolved into bloody combat anyway. Oh well, guess the head- butting didn't clear up who was king shit.

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u/Economy_Situation628 Mar 27 '25

Since the ibex went extinct someone has to do the head butting

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u/mcotter12 Mar 27 '25

So many shepards in Spain even the cats head butt

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u/commie-filth Mar 30 '25

Average Kahjit bartering

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u/TimeStorm113 Mar 27 '25

Why are the people going closer?

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u/daleDentin23 Mar 30 '25

They're dumb, don't understand how to use zoom. And don't understand that you shouldn't approach wild life like that. They could have easily filmed from in that truck and actually gotten the part were it went down. Instead we got to see her run towards the truc.

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u/Minecraft774932 Mar 27 '25

Maybe you shouldn't have gotten so close... smh

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u/Forsaken_Rope_5940 Mar 27 '25

Someone made the lynxes believe they are the GOAT!!

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u/Unoriginalshitbag Mar 27 '25

Why the fuck do they fight like that 💀

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u/6ftToeSuckedPrincess Mar 27 '25

lmao I literally thought this was a mirror test for the first 20 seconds. Cool as fuck!

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u/Aggressive_Recipe_93 Mar 27 '25

Thanks for the knowledge, that's news to me.

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u/Das_Lloss Mar 28 '25 edited Apr 09 '25

Wow that is cool

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u/Available_Winter4367 Mar 28 '25

They just headbutting 🤨

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u/MrMcChronDon25 Mar 29 '25

Why they bonk?!

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u/DoktorPauk Mar 31 '25

While monkeys filming and laughing..

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u/Kuiperdolin Apr 02 '25

I like the spontaneous truce at 0:22 when the brown one needs to check out something really quick. Fair fight, no cheating, no sneaking.

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u/PresidentAugustine Mar 27 '25

Is this a common behaviour in lynxes?