Small Wild Cats

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Encounter and fight between an adult male lynx and an adult male wolf. The fight took place at an important marking point and grooming place of the male lynx on an abandoned forest road. The lynx won and plausibly the wolf died afterwards from his wounds.

During vast amounts of time in the wild and a lot of field studies on wolves and lynxes in Belarus only lynxes killed by lynxes (males killed by other males and kits killed by males) were found. We never found any lynx (kits or adult) killed by wolves. 

In contrast, we found several wolf pups of various age and pregnant wolves killed by lynx: 

8 wolf pups of 2-11 months old and 2 heavily pregnant female wolves that were killed by lynxes (1997-2015, Naliboki Forest and Paazierre Forest); 
one more pregnant female wolf was killed by either lynx or wolf (more likely to say that lynx, Naliboki Forest, May 2017); 

at least, two wolf litters up two one month old were killed by lynxes (Naliboki Forest, April-May, 2016 and 2017), 
two more litters – very plausible;

one wolf litter of 2-3 months old and their small mother were very plausibly killed by lynx (Naliboki Forest, June-July 2016);

adult male wolf plausibly died being wounded after a fight with a male lynx (Naliboki Forest, April 2017).

https://sidorovich.blog/2017/09/06/wolves-and-lynxes/ Reply