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Lynx lynx 2 (Martin Mecnarowski) (cropped)🐈

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SpeciesCarnivoraFelidae
Carnivores

🐈Eurasian lynx

Lynx lynx (Linnaeus, 1758)

Bayağı vaşak (Lynx lynx), kedigiller (Felidae) familyasından Avrasya'da yaygın olan bir vaşak türüdür. Orta büyüklükteki yabani kedi cinsi Lynx'in günümüze ulaşan dört türünden biridir. Kuzey, Orta ve Doğu Avrupa'dan Orta Asya ve Sibirya'ya, Tibet Platosu ve Himalayalar'a kadar geniş bir alana yayılmıştır. Ilıman ve boreal ormanlarda 5.500 m yüksekliğe kadar yaşar. Geniş dağılımına rağmen, habitat kaybı ve parçalanması, kaçak avlanma ve avının tükenmesi nedeniyle tehdit altındadır. Bayağı vaşağın yaşadığı coğrafya itibarıyla vücut özellikleri de farklılık gösterebilir. Bayağı vaşaklar arasında Türkiye ve Kafkas dağlarında yaşayan alt türler ve Sibirya'da yaşayan alt türler diğer bayağı vaşaklara göre daha büyüktürler. Bu vaşakların dişileri 24 kg ila 36 kg arasında erkekleri de 32 kg ila 45 kg arasındadır. Vücut uzunlukları ise kuyrukları hariç 140 cm kadardır. Buna 25 cm ila 35 cm arasında kuyruk da eklenince ortalama 170 cm kadar olmaktadır.

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Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2015.

Population trendStable
Key measurements
Body mass
21 kg
Body length
1.08 m
Shoulder height
0.63 m
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
27 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Eurasian lynx

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

Body mass
21 kg
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

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  • 23 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Body length
1.08 m
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Shoulder height
0.63 m0.6–0.65 m · typical rangenot stated
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ADW: "body length is 70 to 130 cm and shoulder height is 60 to 65 cm." Sex not stated; value is the midpoint of the published range.

Source: Animal Diversity Web, Lynx lynx account, https://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Lynx_lynx/ · see citation

Brain mass
73 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

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  • 26 yearsAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Generation length
9.14 years
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Age at maturity
2.0 years
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Gestation
66 days
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

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  • 66 daysAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Litter size
about 2
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

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  • 2AnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Trophic level
Carnivore
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

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

Home range
136 km²
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Population density
0.02 per km²
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Volume l
21 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Eurasian lynx yet: top speed, bite force.

Where it sits

Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classMammalia
  4. ›orderCarnivora
  5. ›familyFelidae
  6. ›genusLynx
  7. ›speciesLynx lynx
Full lineage
  1. classMammals · Mammalia
  2. orderCarnivorans · Carnivora
  3. familyFelidae
  4. genusLynx
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. classMammals · Mammalia
  9. subclassTheria
  10. superorderLaurasiatheria
  11. orderCarnivorans · Carnivora
  12. suborderFeliformia
  13. familyFelidae
  14. genusLynx
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Closest relative on this site
🐈 Canada lynx — last shared an ancestor ≈ 1.5 million years ago.
What it eats
warm-blooded animals100%
In other languages
gaupe (nb), lince europeo (es), lynx boréal (fr), 猞猁 (zh), rys ostrovid (cs), Eurasischer Luchs (de) … and 28 more languages
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