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| Delibes, M.; Palacios, F.; Garzon, J.; Castroviejo, J. | |
| Notes sur l'alimentation et la biologie du lynx pardelle, Lynx pardina (Temminkck, 1824), en Espagne | |
| 1975 Mammalia (39): 387-393 | |
We have analysed 16 digestive tracts and 37 scats of _Lynx pardina_ found in Sierra Morena, Montes de Toledo, Sierra de Gata and Sierra de Lagunilla in Spain, mountains all of them with an altitude under the 1000-1400 m and a typical mediterranean vegetation. From 85 preys, even more than the half were _Oryctolagus cuniculus_ (56.5%). The other preys were rodents (26.9%), birds of the size of the _Turdus_ and _Alectoris_ (11.7%) and other preys which one of them was a _Lacerta lepida_. The rabbits were found in the 86.8% of the contents analysed, therefore they are the chief food of the Spanish lynx. For this cause the epidemy of myxomatosis has damaged the last populations of this beautiful cat. It is even worse for his survival the official authorisations for poisoning and the systematical destroyment of their biotopes changed with exotic woodland in great part with _Eucalyptus_. A pregnant female with three foetuses was caught the 09-03-1973 in Sierra Morena. The birht would have happened at the beginning of April and the rutting time must had appeared towards the end of January and the beginning of February. |
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