If I remember rightly, the lynx enclosure at the old Norfolk Wildlife Park did not have much tree cover, and they bred very well in it for many years, when most places either couldn't breed the species or didn't try. There is even a suggestion in some quarters that some of the descendants of these lynxes may still be running around Norfolk....... You certainly wouldn't want any trees within jumping distrance of the perimeter fence.
True. I was actually thinking of a covered enclosure if it was sited in Woodland. Lynx are pretty free breeders and I don't think they mind too much what the enclosure is like(so long as there's some privacy). My comments about a wooded location were more from the aethsetic angle- but that was before I realised(thanks to Maguari) that Whipsnade have used the old Cheetah enclosure. It certainly provdes a spacious area for Lynx.
They bred for many years in a heavily planted covered enclosure in the old Walled Garden at Cricket St Thomas, and seemed very contented in there, although the public could walk right round it and view from all sides.
If I remember rightly, the lynx enclosure at the old Norfolk Wildlife Park did not have much tree cover, and they bred very well in it for many years, when most places either couldn't breed the species or didn't try. There is even a suggestion in some quarters that some of the descendants of these lynxes may still be running around Norfolk....... You certainly wouldn't want any trees within jumping distrance of the perimeter fence.
Yes I remember the enclosure at norfolk wildlife park which was quite similair to this one (maybe a bit bigger. I actually quite liked that park as there were a few interesting species so I was sad to see its now nothing but a farm park.
They bred for many years in a heavily planted covered enclosure in the old Walled Garden at Cricket St Thomas, and seemed very contented in there, although the public could walk right round it and view from all sides.
