A young Carpathian lynx called Chapo, which is Spanish for Shorty, has won his freedom after repeated escape attempts and is now roaming the wilds of Saxony in search of rabbits, foxes and deer.
The one-year-old wildcat, which was born in Nuremberg Zoo, had been intended for a breeding programme for the species which was hunted almost to extinction in Germany by the early 1900s.
However, he had other plans and jumped over the fence of his enclosure shortly after his arrival at a breeding station in the Harz Mountains in early June.
He was quickly caught but his wanderlust was evident. “He kept looking for ways out of the enclosure and found it difficult to settle down,” Saxony’s wildlife authority said in a statement.
He looks so happy dashing off.
It took me way too many takes to not read “fired” and I kept trying to figure out in what capacity he had been hired.
Repopulation duty.
I first read it as freeze.
Bad paywall
Thank you!
Good!
Okay… but was there a way for him to learn how to hunt before he was released?
If not he could be in big trouble.
Now do the rest of the animals!
BS. Most of them could not survive one day.
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By what? There’s no predator in that area that would hunt a lynx. It’d have to wander off very far to find one of the few wolf packs in the country.
Wolves do not hunt lynx. Nothing really does unless they are young or sick.
However, they are very much released close to wolf territory:
I think the experts are a better judge of this than you are. And if you want to be that negative about a positive story, maybe go to a different community.
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Did you even read the article? He was bred in captivity and was going to be used as part of a breeding program to enhance the numbers of this species which is endangered in Germany. Maybe don’t release them before breeding unless they are better suited to being immediately released to the wild like this young Chapo is.
Breeding and release programs for endangered wildlife are good things.
Great, another bird killer on the loose.
This species is endangered in Germany. This is a good thing. And no, lynxes don’t generally primarily pray on birds. They can target larger game.
FFS, read the article.
Primarily being the operational word here. It’s not the same as uniquely.
