| adult female lynx | gives birth in May or June |  |
| gives birth to 1 litter per year | |
| has average number of babies 2-3 | |
| has gestation period 9 weeks | |
| has length 76.5-96.5 cm | |
| has part four teats | |
| is a kind of adult lynx | |
| is a kind of female mammal | |
| weighs 5.1-11.6 kg | |
| adult lynx | can climb | |
| can swim | |
| communicates with urine marks | |
| eats snowshoe hare, bird, meadow vole, moose and caribou carrion, squirrel, fox, skunk | |
| has breeding season March and April | |
| has colour grey frosted on the back, buffy on the belly | |
| has poor sense of smell | |
| has range 15-20 square km | |
| hunts by sight or hearing | |
| is hunted for fur | |
| is nocturnal | |
| is solitary | |
| moults in October and November and again in April and May | |
| travels about 4 km per day | |
| female mammal | suckles babies | |
| lynx | has habitat dense boreal forest, tundra | |
| has name in French loup-cervier | |
| has scientific name Lynx lynx | |
| is killed by humans, cougars, wolves | |
| mammal | is warm-blooded | |
| may catch rabies | |
| cat | has Family name Family Felidae | |
| is carnivorous | |
| carnivore | has Order name Order Carnivora | |
| is carnivorous or omnivorous | |
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