Police in the north-western Ontario city of Timmins have shot yet another lynx.
The City of Timmins, is located in northwestern Ontario. (google) CLICK to ENLARGE
This makes the third in a matter of weeks. A police spokeswoman, Kat Cantin, says the animal was killed in the interest of public safety.
“Public safety is our main concern,” she said. “So our officers can’t just attend and then leave the scene hoping that nothing will happen. They have to take various factors into consideration and then make a decision on how to deal with that wild animal based on those factors.”
She said the animal was in a residential neighbourhood and wouldn’t leave.
A young lynx takes a nap in the sun in the backyard of a home in Temagami, Ontario in March 2012 where it stayed for about an hourand a half (courtesy Hendryka Kyrgsman) CLIKC to ENLARGE)
Wildlife officials has said earlier that the very long and hard winter is driving the normally very reclusive cats closer to the city in search of food. They are coming into residential areas in search of birds and squirrels that frequent backyard bird feeders.
Other reports say that the deer in northwestern Ontario are also likely to have been hard hit by the long winter, deep snow, and extreme cold.
Wildlife officials and the Ontario Federation of Anglers and Hunters say they’ve already seen emaciated and dead fawns and expect a high percentage of deer will succumb before spring arrives, the snow pack recedes and new plants and shoots appear.
Video of female Lynx and kitten at Deer Lodge, Banff Alberta. Conservation officer Alex Taylor says the female may have seen her reflection in a basement window and thought it was another animal that posed a threat to her kitten.
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