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<p>[QUOTE="MorganFred, post: 40111, member: 1779"]I'm happy the question was asked. I'm a retired wildlife biologist and I used to eat this stuff up. First, the animals pictured on the Canadian coins are the snowshoe (varying) hare <i>Lepus americanus</i> (not a rabbit; hares are precocial = born with hair and eyes open; rabbits are altricial = born naked and blind) and the Canada lynx <i>Lynx lynx</i> ssp. Lynx are smaller than cougar <i>Felis</i> (also <i>Puma</i> ) <i>concolor</i> ssp, but larger than bobcat <i>Lynx rufus</i>. Visually, lynx have larger ear tufts than bobcat, but in the field, the differences are obvious in size and their ranges seldom overlap (with a lot of qualifications). Cougar (aka puma, mountain lion, painter, panther, big cat) have long tails while bobcat and lynx have shorter "bobbed" tails. A summary of the lynx-hare cycle may be found at: <a href="http://www.nwtwildlife.rwed.gov.nt.ca/NWTwildlife/lynx/lynxharecycle.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.nwtwildlife.rwed.gov.nt.ca/NWTwildlife/lynx/lynxharecycle.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.nwtwildlife.rwed.gov.nt.ca/NWTwildlife/lynx/lynxharecycle.htm</a> . Among wildlife biologists, it's a classical study of the relationship between predators and their prey since it's a relatively simple model with little outside "noise". Many biologists in Canada and the US continue to study these cycles since data goes back well over 50 years.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="MorganFred, post: 40111, member: 1779"]I'm happy the question was asked. I'm a retired wildlife biologist and I used to eat this stuff up. First, the animals pictured on the Canadian coins are the snowshoe (varying) hare [I]Lepus americanus[/I] (not a rabbit; hares are precocial = born with hair and eyes open; rabbits are altricial = born naked and blind) and the Canada lynx [I]Lynx lynx[/I] ssp. Lynx are smaller than cougar [I]Felis[/I] (also [I]Puma[/I] ) [I]concolor[/I] ssp, but larger than bobcat [I]Lynx rufus[/I]. Visually, lynx have larger ear tufts than bobcat, but in the field, the differences are obvious in size and their ranges seldom overlap (with a lot of qualifications). Cougar (aka puma, mountain lion, painter, panther, big cat) have long tails while bobcat and lynx have shorter "bobbed" tails. A summary of the lynx-hare cycle may be found at: [url]http://www.nwtwildlife.rwed.gov.nt.ca/NWTwildlife/lynx/lynxharecycle.htm[/url] . Among wildlife biologists, it's a classical study of the relationship between predators and their prey since it's a relatively simple model with little outside "noise". Many biologists in Canada and the US continue to study these cycles since data goes back well over 50 years.[/QUOTE]
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