Tiergarten Nürnberg

Shy "paintbrush ears"

The lynx, along with the wolf and bear, are the three largest predators in the animal kingdom. With populations destroyed by humans, they disappeared from our forests about 200 years ago, but now they are making a comeback.

They have short tails and characteristic tufts of black hair on the tips of their ears. Lynx prefer to live in dense forest, the females occupy about 100 km2, the males claim about three to five times more territory.