#highland lynx

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Highland Lynx kitten, or Highlander Shorthair ❤️

The Highland Lynx is not part lynx, or a wild cat. They are a recent crossbreed of two domestic cats: the Desert Lynx, and the Jungle Curl, also a new breed.

[wittylittle]

[kolachelove]

Enchilada is not satisfied with these cuddles

[runs-4-pinkcupcakes]

Dude!! Look at my tiny cat in her tiny tent!!

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[2percentsugar]

if they cant successfully reintroduce wildcats, i think they should just introduce manuls to the highlands. fuck it. steel chair

[utterlybrainwrecked]

ada bsd cats. (ill draw them someday i swear-) images all found on pinterest!! i apologize for the quality on some of them

I AM NOT A CAT SPECIALIST. SOME OF THEIR BREED/COAT NAMES MAY BE OFF

ranpo: burmese (fight me)

dazai: wet black cat

fukuzawa: silver ticked egyptian mau (could not find a good pic where the cat looked like a dad 😔)

yosano: charcoal bengal . (ill fight you over this one too)

kenji: cream mackerel tabby . i firmly believe he would have a bob tail as well

kunikida: golden/apricot tabby

kyouka: gray scottish fold. (i will go into detail. fight me again)

atsushi: snow highland lynx (im not above leaving him as a white tiger though)

juni: ginger tabby

naomi: tuxedo.

haruno: brown and white tabby. (the half tail is canon too i said so)

what do we think guys??? should i continue posting these for the other organizations?

[thebayclans]

Origins of the Bay Clans: Arrival (Part 1)

When cats arrived—former housecats, ship mousers, strays seeking refuge and adventure—they knew nothing of their destination. They slipped silently aboard human vessels, their hearts drawn by curiosity, bravery, impulsivity, content to let the direction of their lives be led by wind and sea. Stone sought to leave a life behind.

After many moons on stormy seas, feeding off scraps and scuttling ship rats, the feline sailors began to question if they’d ever see land again. Just as the doubt grew unbearable, the cats found their wave-tossed vessels surrounded by snow-peaked mountains, a fortress encircling the bay. Their new home.

In a strange, harsh place, a land of extremes. Bountiful summers where fish broke the riverbanks under an unsetting sun, and dark, silent winters where death hung in the air like a heavy fog.

Beasts ruled the land, creatures so massive they towered toward the sky like the mountains that surrounded them.

These cats looked upon gods,

And saw themselves reflected back.

When Stone saw The Lynx, silhouetted against a sky lit with cosmic flame, she knew that these creatures held more power then they could imagine. Cats were naught but ants under giant paws, subjected to the whims of these unearthly beings, time and space dangling from their clawtips. They were to be respected, feared, and revered.

Stone gazed around her small, ramshackle crew, their eyes stretched wide with frigid fear. They could not return to their former lives, but trembled at the thought of a future here, amongst the vastness and cruelty of the wilderness.

“We will survive here. We will not fall to these beasts or to the nature they command.

We will follow these gods, and carve out a space to live beside them, learning their skills and deferring to their judgement. We will craft a community for ourselves to stand within, protected yet interwoven with the world which wishes to harm us.”

Her eyes bore into her comrades, blazing with determination. Her voice carried through the den, spoken with utter clarity, certainty.

“We must live, for what other choice is there?”

And a community they became. A family, a Clan, named by wildcats who hailed from distant highlands, a green, rocky place that seemed like a lifetime ago. Led by the intrepid Stone, the community stuck close to the human harbor and settlements, clinging to any sense of the familiar.

But something was stirring within Stone, an intuition that drew her deeper and deeper past the treeline, the memory of the Lynx still clear in her mind.

Until one day, pressed into mud fresh from the day’s rainfall, she found a set of tracks.

And set out to follow them.

[socfuz]

I'll be honest, I think Tumblr looks prettier than Twitter, and there's no character limit.

This is way better. 💜

Anyways, here's my baby boy, Gadget, he is an 8 month old Highland Lynx cat with no tail. Being polydactyl, his favorite thing is getting all his claws caught on dad's socks, as you can see in my profile picture.

More on him and the rest of his family to come!

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Tiny highland lynx kitten

Source: https://bit.ly/44Il2bs

[dannyfoley]

(For)

Some ecologists are calling for predators such as wolves and lynx to be returned to Ireland

They say this would help control Ireland's expanding deer population and so protect forests and crops

Sheep farmers in particular say they fear attacks on their animals and the threat to rural communities

The animals were hunted to extinction in Ireland in the late 18th Century, but there are increasing calls from ecologists to bring them back, potentially alongside another large predator, the lynx.

The benefits, they argue, range from controlling deer numbers and so protecting forests, to reducing road accidents.

However, the idea of reintroducing large predators is, not surprisingly, unpopular with Ireland's farmers.

Sheep farmers in particular fear attacks on their flocks and the impact on rural communities.

If there's one key reason for the calls to bring back the predators it's the ever expanded deer population in Ireland.

Overgrazing by them has led to damage to forests as well as crops.

Earlier this year, the chair of the Wicklow Deer Management Partnership said there could be more than 100,000 of the animals in that county alone.

Last year, 55,000 deer were culled in Ireland.

Ecologist Padraic Fogarty says that Ireland had pressing targets to meet for climate and biodiversity.

"Among those is restoring elements of our natural ecosystem particularly forests, peatlands and so on," he says.

"You just can’t have natural ecosystems that work without big predators.

"So if we want to re-establish big areas of forest that’s not going to be possible if we’re going to have deer numbers that are totally out of control or we don’t have the balance in those forests so that they can re-generate and perpetuate themselves over the long-term."

Mr McLoughlin adds that culling deer is not working.

"The first year that they culled deer in Ireland they killed 5,000 deer, last year they killed 50,000," he says.

"Every year, it’s cull, cull, cull and the numbers are still increasing."

He says by chasing their prey, wolves ensure they catch "the sick, the diseased, the old and the frail" and create a healthy deer population.

"The diseased ones that they’re taking out of the population are diseases that we really fear, like Lyme disease that affects thousands of people in Ireland," he says.

"They will also take out TB, which farmers dread.

"Crop framers have their crops destroyed by overpopulation of deer – the wolves will actually help the crop farmers, the tillage farmers."

Mr McLoughlin also cites a US study that suggested a 23% in reduction in road accidents involving deer in places with a wolf population.

"Wolves create a landscape of fear that keeps deer moving, it keeps deer away from the roads, it keeps deer up in the highlands where we want them, not down in our fields or in our gardens," he says.

"Despite intensive farming and urban sprawl, all it took for these animals to recover in mainland Europe was for people to stop killing them."

He says the public would have nothing to fear from the prospect of lynx reintroductions.

"There is not a single record of a human attack, let alone mortality from a wild Eurasian lynx anywhere in the world," he says.

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John Joe Fitzgerald is a sheep farmer from County Kerry and member of the Irish Natura and Hill Farmers Association.

"We have the domestic dogs in this country, they’re killing anything between 300 and 500, maybe 600 animals a year," he says.

"We can’t control the domestic dogs we have, how are we going to control a wild animal?

"I can’t see any way that they could reintroduce these animals, it wouldn’t be fair on the rural communities, it wouldn’t be fair on farmers and even small towns."

Mr Fitzgerald says across Europe where wolves have returned, thousands of sheep are being killed by them every year.

"Are we going to live in fear now that our animals are going to be slaughtered?" he says.

"The vast tracts of land are not in this country to reintroduce wolves, even if they’re going to be controlled.

"The only known predator to the wolf in Ireland is a gun.

"It’s not nice to reintroduce wolves and then we as farmers or rural communities have to start shooting them – it makes no sense."

(Meeting both halfway)

Padraic Fogarty said an important part of any reintroduction projects would be to pay farmers and local communities.

"We’re not talking about compensation, because that kind of implies damage, but if we start talking about the rewards communities could get from having large predators in their areas then I think the attitude might be different and we might have a different conversation that wouldn't be so vexed," he says.

Josh Twining agrees with this approach.

"Mitigation programmes in countries where people share their landscapes with large carnivores vary substantially, but increasing in popularity is the use of conservation performance payments," he says.

"I think for lynx reintroduction to ever gain any real traction, it needs to be led in collaboration with those who would be most affected, the sheep farmers, the game keepers, the custodians of the land."

Killian McLaughlin says that there is a "need to start educating people first of all and educating them that they [wolves] don’t kill people and they actually benefit us as well".

He adds: "There’s lots of ways of protecting livestock and our neighbours on the continent have gotten very good at protecting them."

Padraic Fogarty says that technically, these reintroductions would be feasible and that the species themselves could survive and adapt - "but it’s living alongside humans that is the problem".

Mr McLoughlin says it wouldn't take many wolves to balance the ecosystem.

"Top predators never overpopulate because if they do their food source disappears and they disappear," he says.

"We could initially start off with one pack and study them, but we would need a bit of genetic diversity, so you would probably need several pairs."

He adds: "It would really be about giving them the basics that they need to survive and then just leaving them well enough alone and letting nature take its course, because nature survived without us for millions and millions of years."

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top 5 fave animals please 💖 (asking the tough questions)

CAT THE MENTAL SCREECH WHEN I RECEIVED THIS you cannot make me choose i love them all oh my 😭😭😭😭😭😭 ok i love all animals except spiders i am deathly afraid but my top! this is like asking me to choose children i am beside myself

cat!!! this is looking good for you my lovely cat friend haha (also this includes all cats, lynxes, pallas cats, ocelots, all sorts)

wolves!! (i am extending this to dogs that look like wolves and coyotes and all assorted critters)

bears! all sorts! yes, i am including koalas and red pandas in this

foxes!!

highland cows??? owls??? bunnies!??? or stoats??? otters??? maybe all animals are so cute i am unable to do this

what are yours??

ask me my top 5 anything :)

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I took this photo of a Lynx a while back at the Highland Wildlife Park. A medium sized blep from a medium sized cat.

[catsofcalifornia]

King Bob from ResQ Animal Coalition in Redding, California

Click here for more information about adoption and other ways to help!

Here is King BOB, he is a Highlander Lynx which is a newer breed that does not show up in our breed database, he is not a Manx. King Bob is about 11 month old. He’s not real big yet, But will continue to grow until 2 years old. He is spotted and striped, about 1/2 tail. HE HAS THAT EXOTIC WILD LOOK TO HIM. He is very very affectionate towards humans and absolutely loves water. All medical done. NO MALE CATS IN HOME, HE IS "WILDLY AGGRESSIVE" towards male cats. Gets along well with females. Very reliable litter box trained.

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dteam government assigned fursonas. what are they also YOPPEEE another furry dteam stan :3

Dream is either a golden retriever or a Brown/blondish Poodle ( could also be a bear bc he's so cuddly )

Sapnap could either be a Highland Cow or a Red Panda ( a Chinchilla would be cute too and works quite well for sap, hehe )

And George A Lynx or Penguin ( possibly a otter )

I can think of so many animals they could all be that fit them, but I know people tend to go for Dream as a dog Sapnap a panda and George cat