A few months back, I posted some photographs taken by Tom Hicks. He was gracious enough to reply to some of the entries and invited us to go and check his site out. Of course I got curious, so I went there and I saw some amazing wildlife shots.

What caught my eye were the wildcat shots that he took. I love cats (maybe that’s why I’m on a Hello Kitty website), and the photos he took were just amazing. My favorite was his photo of a Siberian lynx, which I think looks a bit like a crossbreed between a bobcat and a housecat (sorry, that probably sounds weird).

I didn’t really know anything about this kind of cat, so I looked it up on Wikipedia and this is what I got:

“The Eurasian Lynx (Lynx lynx) is a medium-sized cat native to European and Siberian forests, where it is one of the predators. The Eurasian Lynx is the biggest of the lynxes, ranging in length from 80 to 130 cm (32 to 51 in) and standing about 70 cm (28 in) at the shoulder. Males usually weigh from 18 kg (39.7 lbs) to 30 kg (66 lbs) and females weigh 18.1 kg (40 lbs) on average.^[3] It has grey to reddish fur with black spots. The pattern of the fur is variable; lynxes with heavily spotted fur may exist close to conspecifics with plain fur. The Eurasian Lynx is mainly nocturnal and lives solitarily as an adult. Moreover, the sounds this lynx makes are very quiet and seldom heard, so the presence of the species in an area may go unnoticed for years. Remnants of prey or tracks on snow are usually observed long before the animal is seen.