🐈Canada lynx

Lynx canadensis Kerr, 1792

Canadisk los (latin: Lynx canadensis) er et rovdyr i kattefamilien. Den canadiske los er udbredt i det nordlige USA, det meste af Canada og i store dele af Alaska. Den minder meget om europæisk los, men er fysisk mindre. Canadisk los har tæt sølvgrå/brun pels som kan have sorte markeringer. Gennemsnitsvægten er cirka 11 kg. Kropslængden er normalt 80-105 cm og skulderhøjden cirka 60 cm hos voksne dyr. Hannen bliver større end hunnen. Den canadiske los er kendt for at vandre, og en enkelt hanlos (med betegnelsen BC-03-M-02) blev indfanget i British Columbia i 2003 og udsat i Colorado, hvorfra han forsvandt i 2007. I januar 2010 blev han fundet i en fælde i Alberta efter således at have vandret de 2000 kilometer fra Colorado.

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vs you

≈ 1/6th of your weight

Also called

American lynx, Canadian lynx

Conservation status

LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2025.

Population trendUnknown

Key measurements

Body mass: 9.68 kg
Body length: 0.81 m
Shoulder height: 0.52 m
Top speed: not recorded
Bite force: not recorded
Maximum lifespan: 27 years

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Everything we know about the Canada lynx

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass

9.68 kg

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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

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10 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable

Body length

0.81 m

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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Shoulder height

0.52 m0.48–0.56 m · typical rangenot stated

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'Cat is muscular, leggy, and stands about 48-56 cm high at the shoulder.' Midpoint of the published range. Same authors' Wild Cats of the World (2002, pp. 154-163) carries the same 48-56 cm figure. ADW and the 2019 Mammalian Species account list no shoulder height.

Source: Sunquist & Sunquist 2009, Family Felidae (Canadian Lynx account), in Wilson & Mittermeier (eds), Handbook of the Mammals of the World Vol 1: Carnivores, Lynx Edicions, https://zenodo.org/records/6772738 · see citation

Brain mass

71 g

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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan

27 years

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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0