The Elusive Iberian Lynx | Wild Stories | BBC Earth

[@ElTeeger]

They are beautiful and it’s great to hear the population is growing

[@stevewarwick2103]

The lynx population is thriving due to reduced 'human activites' during the pandemic.

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Mast👌👌👌👌

[@PossibleBat]

Yeah, they will continue to grow, the problem we are having now is that they don’t have enough prey (mostly hares or wild rabbits) to survive on their own. Stray cats eat also the lynx’s food. It’s getting difficult

[@popogast]

Spain is an uncredible beautiful country. So much more than tourist's places.

[@monalicee]

Iberian lynxs dont exist only in spain. Its called IBERIAN for a reason

[@BicornioSPA]

@@monalicee They only existed in Spain, in Portugal they had become extinct, they have been repopulated with lynxes from Spain, the same will be done with the Iberian wolf in the future

[@Hugomad2]

Portugal too! Ibéria!!!

[@Made0nEarth]

I already saw them in Portugal!

[@Made0nEarth]

@@monalicee IBERIAN is Portugal + Spain ( the Portuguese lynxs population is growing too) im from South Portugal (Algarve) and recently some British tourists call the police because they saw a small tiger in their garden! (we can imagine what they saw)

[@19conqueor23]

Damn, such a beautiful animal.

[@mokarokas-1727]

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परछाई रे जाती

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[@Pantheragatos]

What a absolutely handsome cat.Congrats on getting such great pictures of him!

[@gumarks_]

Here's some great news. The Iberian lynx recently reached the thousand individual milestone!! From 2002 to 2020, the population has went from 92 to a staggering 1,111. Let's hope they multiply even more this decade!! PD: In 2021, the population grew by 23% and reached 1365 individuals! PD2: 1668 as of May 2023!!

[@jaimedelgado7529]

I heard it hasn't been spotted in Portugal since the 90s. U know if there's truth to this?

[@gumarks_]

@@jaimedelgado7529 I just looked it up. It seems that in recent years there have been efforts to reintroduce the Iberian lynx in Portugal (so I guess it hadn't been spotted the years before). As of March 2020, Portugal stated that the Iberian lynx is "safe from extinction" in Portuguese land, so that's great news!! PD: As of February 2022, there are around 200 lynxes in the wild in Portugal. It's quite a small number if we compare it to Spain, but they're definitely recovering!

[@jaimedelgado7529]

@@gumarks_ thank u greatly for the reply

[@gumarks_]

@@jaimedelgado7529 you're welcome!!

[@pedroviriato9356]

En 2024 ,,,,2000 iberian lynx.

[@elizabethcintron2271]

Thank you to everyone who has helped the lynxes.❤

[@bobrianfo104]

They look so well groomed, I wonder how do they manage to keep their beards so clean and tidy

[@yoo1242.]

Maybe sum wild cat barber around there. Servicing for their own life)

[@brawmankerlexterminateurde860]

Got to admit that is a good beard

[@caio01gomes]

@@yoo1242. the Lynx barber is even more elusive, it was never spotted till today, but for sure its around

[@yoo1242.]

@@caio01gomes 😃

[@mokarokas-1727]

@@JNL37Dyxce5 - Shove your spam where the sun doesn't shine.

[@andresdeprado2852]

This was the whole spanish society working towards a goal. From scientists working on captivity reproduction and restoring their habitat, to the administration building elevated passes trhough roads, to normal people driving slowly on their vehicles and paying their taxes proudly to conquer one of the most difficult tasks my country has ever done. It was decades of full commitement and its not even done yet.

[@Joshua-sc7lo]

BBC is the one who made me wanna do zoology from I was young

[@Kermodeii]

Here in Alberta its illegal to hunt the wild rabbits that inhabit the city, as a result we have a lot of wild predators that live right within the city limits. Bobcats, coyotes, and raptor birds are very common to see. In order to keep the Iberian lynx thriving, you need to keep the rabbit population stable.

[@gutemorcheln6134]

That's exactly the problem mate. Iberian lynx were actually doing quite well until a particular person decided to introduce myxomatosis into his private estate im France, causing devastating losses in rabbit populations across Europe.

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Hello

[@themechanictangerine]

There shouldn't be wild rabbits in Canada, they originated in the Iberian peninsula 😂

[@fernandomedina9943]

Nice work!!! So beautiful to see how Iberian Lynx population is rising up yo more than 1000 these days. Thanks to everyone involved in this conservation project!

[@zverh]

Majestic animals 😍😍

[@afridi0182]

🤝👌👍🙋🏾‍♀️🙋🏾‍♀️🙋🏾‍♀️

[@SevenHunnid]

I smoked weed inside a Walmart in my most recent KZbin video 😅

[@stevewarwick2103]

100%

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[@veroniqueboulvard6315]

Such a beauty... 💖Thanks to people like them there is allways a chance for something good to happen 🐾

[@gilangsetyawibawa185]

Meet your Gen 9 Pokemon grass starter, based on this lynx!

[@LukeA_55]

Please share more stories like this. It's awesome hearing how she just had a moment to appreciate the beauty of nature with such a rare animal Wish I had the time to explore nature like that

[@jaimedelgado7529]

Long live the Iberian Lynx

[@seraphimprince]

Probably the inspiration for Sprigatito.

[@Pduarte79]

"Probably" nope, it is indeed.

[@vitaquasus1120]

The Lynx's acceptance was it just didn't give a damn about her as she was neither food nor a threat!

[@mariadaluzmoutinho5701]

O lince ibérico e tão lindo e mágico ...irradia uma energia e uma oersonalidade tão incrível!! Extinção desta espécie.. não!! Adorei o vídeo, podermos contar historias selvagens e apreciar .... é sinal que os esforços para preservar estés linces espectaculares está a resultar!

[@9sheri9]

1:36 the way they move is just incredible

[@alvaropleeze]

she really said spain and margarita in the same sentence lmfaooo

[@djwabe3938]

These lynxes are so beautiful. 😍

[@pinkpanther5462]

They are so beautiful! I love them so much. 😍😘

[@afridi0182]

,👍👍👍👍

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गजब मौज कर दी

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Hello

[@MalikMahdi23]

Iberian Lynx are very unique & they deserve to be protected 🐱🐆🤎

[@LyricalKnight1]

5:08 Thank you for saying "we were just two animals in the same place at the same time." Yes, we are indeed animals. Human beings need to stop romanticizing our so-called "dominion" in nature. Although we are categorically mammals, most people wouldn't stand a chance in the wild. BIG respect for your work!

[@wellingtonsboots4074]

Thank you. Such a beautiful animal. So glad that they are recovering from their low numbers.

[@DhanPalSingh78]

Beautiful cats. Great work 100 cats to 600 cats. 👍👌

[@pedroviriato9356]

1200 gatos

[@Nitka022]

Amazing and absolutely stunning animal! So graceful, sleek and elegant! LOVE those ears most! And to think that in UK/Scotland they have been arguing for more than 2 decades if these cats are safe to reintroduce back to their forests/landscapes. They are scared of this cat!! What a joke really....we should give them as much room and habitats as we can....to make sure they never ever are on the brink again...

[@joseguerreiro5943]

To be fair, this one is an altogether different species and wouldn't be considered for reintroduction in Scotland (or anywhere outside Iberia). The one who is currently being considered for reintroduction in Scotland is the Eurasian lynx which is much bigger and can take on deer. But I totally agree with the sentiment of your comment, they should definitely be reintroduced.

[@javibaeza2644]

3:04 They went to Spain thinking there would be margaritas? I think they were thinking of Spain as if it was Mexico...

[@ynnyss]

It's like going to the UK to drink bourbon. Not that it isn't possible, but...

[@kokorospirit5006]

Cultural faux-pas

[@valentinadianlarasati2156]

Well done! Thank you for helping this beautiful species out from extinction.

[@longdongbongchong]

Fantastic video. I'm so grateful for people like Charlotte who work to save and help animals.

[@WJen8]

Thank you to everyone who works with nature and helps educate humanity 🙏💯

[@footfault1941]

What a magnificent creature it is! So elegant is its locomotor capacity. Leaping on the rock as if no gravity was there! Effortless!

[@sepilokfui]

Never see such a calm cat... never like cats, but I think I love these iberian lynx.

[@industrect5337]

I hope to see these animals more in Europe again!

[@Captainval28]

All wildlife is just stunning and beautiful most are bautiful in there own way even though they look gross to some people to me they are beautiful in there own unique way and all nature no matter what it is should be protected for thousands of years until our species can no longer serve as there guardians which I believe was the purpose of our evolutionary step to be the protected of the natural world no matter the cost

[@Captainval28]

@Malar M thanks

[@macktheripper7454]

Do you see yourself separate from nature?

[@Captainval28]

@@macktheripper7454 no we can still be nature ourselves and serve as it’s guardians living sustainably and in a cycling system of living while protecting all other forms of nature

[@Captainval28]

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[@brawmankerlexterminateurde860]

@UCKvg25GLQavLjPW4xSlaaIg man you are so full of shit Protect nature guardians? Anything that is alive on earth are parasitic disease who doesn't any protection they need to disappear to prevented them from repeating the same and agonzing cycle over and over plus the beauty lies in earth only

[@sebastianengelsman7255]

Cats are the top 10 beautiful animals. So beautiful 😻.

[@pakistanchowk]

Majestic Animals. 💓💞

[@cmarq817]

One of the lynxes born in Portugal and then released in Spain travelled 500 km to return to its birth place. 😻 Its twin brother must have been confused and went to the Pyrinnes…

[@rindapelton5876]

It’s really awesome to hear you talk about how we are coexisting!!!!! Gorgeous Lynx!!! Thank you 😊💕

[@bird_philosophy]

Those ears need to make a comeback! :)

[@AnimalStudios_species]

Love the ears

[@mokarokas-1727]

@@JNL37Dyxce5 STOP spamming your crappy, stolen video channel on other peoples' videos!

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हुड हुड दबंग दबंग दबंग दबंग

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[@bird_philosophy]

@@notebook.amazon Hello :)

[@MrGanganagar]

Great work

[@jacksultan8146]

Just incredible documentation keep up the Great strides

[@dynamosaurusimperious2718]

Nothing like nature being very awesome

[@brodricksheffield]

I want to see more of the lynx interacting with other lynxes. Important work she and her team are doing by saving the wild Lynx.

[@WildSBlk]

Very good work. Thank you so much to everyone who dedicated themselves to that

[@richardjohnson5529]

Great News for the Iberian Lynx and for Real Humans that Care for All Life

[@britviking5960]

"Real Humans " who gets to make that definition.?

[@richardjohnson5529]

@@britviking5960 anyone that cares for all life,

[@MajorT0m]

"Khajiit guards your back."

[@JazTrance]

Such a beautiful kitty ♡♡

[@rebeccalundberg4298]

So important, so beautiful, so wonderful ❤❤❤

[@jessicaoppegard6578]

They hide in plain sight 🖤

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[@RandomKlallamGuy]

Imagine trusting the weather report 😂

[@wimwiddershins]

The bold and curious behaviour of these amazing cats, gives us some hint as to how feline-human relationships might have started.

[@jimoblad1747]

This is great news !!!!!!! Well done !!!

[@markashdown1314]

I observe linx occasionally here in Southern Spain, a real treat.

[@joostkpmn5401]

the cat is mesmerizing (charlotte is a little bit too)

[@frankienunes9831]

Thank you 😊💗

[@apekool3]

magical - mystical creatures

[@casey2732]

What a lovely girl

[@Marrawi01]

Sooo beautiful id love to pet one and have one lol ♥️♥️♥️♥️

[@soumenroychowdhuryphotogra864]

Great initiative amazing work beautiful spices.

[@Myiata1979]

Beautiful animals!

[@alejandrobaezagonzalez1749]

Good news. As for today, the number of Iberian Lynx have raised up to 2,000.

[@roolenoir3183]

Beautiful!!

[@paraproject2019]

Wild thing. you make my heart break.

[@crescentmoon5202]

I would catch that as a Pokemon it looks so badass Legendary 🔥

[@perceivingnature]

They're so different

[@therivergod849]

cool..i saw a big bob cat lazily stroll across the parking lot of a hiking trail mid day right in front of me a few summers ago.

[@therivergod849]

@KAHANU ERMEYAS-TULU yes very aware thankyou. they have a likeness and the awesomeness of seeing a predator cat up close is very rare..especially with the condition we find our ecosystems in worldwide.

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Hello

[@Turmzy]

At around the 5 minute mark she talks about feeling the lynx watching her from behind. She was not its equal, she was going to be prey. Lol

[@perceivingnature]

This is unexpected it is looking like a beast though with silence and soft nature hoping to save more such endangered animals by these inspiring stories whereas in rajasthan India with many national park and sanctuaries where do i live it is famous for seeing common wildcats such as panthers but yet i haven't seen not even one.. hope me and many other can be part of many conservation stories together

[@caladvwlch10]

Ya hay mas de 1000 linces ibericos!!!

[@LinceSensei]

YESSSSSSSS

[@pedroviriato9356]

1400

[@pedroviriato9356]

2000

[@tjeannine99]

Incredible!

[@GabGotti3]

He looks like a wise old samurai

[@muratyogurtcu340]

Very beatifull animal 😍😍🤩🤩

[@gilangsetyawibawa185]

It's Meowscarada from Pokemon Scarlet/Violet!

[@MrRommaway]

Majestic. No wonder Egyptians worship cats.

[@t.farias9336]

Khajit guards your back

[@xarby3564]

dovahkhin

[@adlaisalcedo]

Lovely creature 😍

[@carlitomora]

Beautiful.

[@hirensakhrani1855]

Amazing

[@jaypeej7830]

Sprigatito

[@vishweshchorghade300]

OMG!!!. if earth gets saved from apocalypse... it will be becoz of such people

[@deykizokko455]

dont know about you guys but she's 100% my type

[@alialii1274]

Great BBC 🌍

[@Skeptic_Tank]

this woman is beautiful. cat is cute too.

[@menefreghismo8507]

Majestic Kittyyy

[@RobCardIV]

at 2:20 i learned one thing. i learned that, Cats are opertunistic feeders. they will haunt near human civilization due to the sole fact that humans throw away chicken, and such. yet they were surprised.

[@siberiantiger7273]

Nice Video Bro

[@beaverdamremovaldaily3722]

wow amazing

[@jeremyatkinson4976]

I saw a Lynx about the size and shape of a miniature Schnauzer In the Ariege in 2002. I mentioned it a couple of years later to a Toulouse University naturalist who was very skeptical till he asked just where I'd seen it. Whereupon he stated that there had been another report in the same place of a very small lynx; also thought to be Iberian. I was setting up a mountainbike event. A rider saw another Lynx but that was the size of a large dog fox

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[@naturalreach4316]

Very very interesting video Mam

[@edwardfletcher7790]

Such a beautiful animal, no wonder the Egyptians worshipped them...

[@snooks8511]

Nice!

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[@Nitka022]

reduce human population by half..?..at least! ...too many of us! in 1960 there was 3 billion of us...60 years later and we more than doubled...there are no habitats left, wildlife has nowhere to go...and our lungs are on fire and no one is talking about it (Amazon is burning like never before and Indonesian rainforests is disappearing faster than you can blink)...we are doomed.....next generation will start to discover what it is like to live on a hot, waterless plate...

[@Sagnik_das]

🐈😺 🙂👍👍

[@sjain8111]

their land must be preserved so many species being driven from their habitats, forced to try to adapt to human landscape

[@paolofocato8972]

he was just sat?????? (he was just sitting)

[@tugadmundo]

E' um animal lindissimo

[@taslimchoudhary1253]

Nice Video 🌿🌿🇮🇳🌿🌿