An attractive, pretty nice and decently sized enclosure holds quite a large group (7 or 8) Eurasian lynxes. I like this enclosure. The lynxes are often very well visible.
An attractive, pretty nice and decently sized enclosure holds quite a large group (7 or 8) Eurasian lynxes. I like this enclosure. The lynxes are often very well visible.
There are 7 or 8 lynx in this exhibit? Wow, that must be some kind of record. It is a very aesthetically pleasing enclosure and to have that many lynx in it is rather astonishing unless there was a very large recent litter.
I believe the lynxes at GaiaZoo breed regularly, if not yearly and I've seen young lynxes there several times, but there were always just one to three youngsters. Most of the lynxes in the exhibit are adults of subadults - several of them probably born at GaiaZoo.
GaiaZoo seems to do extremely well with lynxes and lynx husbandry.
Maybe the enclosure has improved in terms of planting, but I did not like it when I visited a few years ago. There was no place in the exhibit where the animals could get out of sight (which was the case in their old exhibit) and lynxes are basically forest animals not meadow animals....
Lintworm, I do think the planting in the enclosure is a little bit more mature now. Also, the grass is left relatively long in some places, there is the large tree trunk that gives some resting spots, and the off-exhibit holding area seems to usually be kept accessible to the lynxes. I would say that, yes, a few larges pushes or large plants in the back of the enclosure, for example, would be a good idea, but the lynxes can get out of sight if they want to, I believe. And as many as there are in the exhibit, you can't always find them instantly.
