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| Dutta, T.; Sharma, S. | |
| An encounter with the Enigmatic Eee | |
| 2004 Sanctuary Asia (October 2004): 48-49 | |
Even in our wildest dreams this was not a sighting we had hoped for, though we knew the area was perfect for lynx. The lynx is usually the 'missing one' from most wildlife sighting lists in Ladakh. Understandably, everyone was grinning, but it got better still. We discovered not one, or two, but three lynx moving together! One was noticeably smaller and had a lighter coat than the others. By now we could easily pick out the ear tufts and short stumpy tails. It was the sighting of a lifetime. There are three species of lynx in the world, two of which (the Canadian lynx Lynx canadensis and the bobcat Lynx rufous) are found in North America. The Eurasian lynx Lynx lynx is the largest of the three and is found in Europe and Asia. The subspecies in Ladakh is Lynx lynx isabellinus and is distributed throughout the open, thinly wooded, rocky hills and mountains of the Central Asian desert regions and the Tibetan plateau. They are also known to occur on the northern slopes of the Himalaya. Sightings are predictably low, because lynx are sparsely distributed throughout their range. |
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