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According to zoo literature, lynx typically eat rabbits, rodents and birds and occasionally take down the odd deer. They're sometimes mistaken for bobcats, the third species of wild feline known to inhabit Manitoba, but lynx are simply too large to mistake for housecats, no matter how lazy and well-fed.
Lynx are also very elusive, which means that motorists, joggers and camera-toting readers are very lucky people. I've never spotted a lynx during any hike or canoe trip, though I did spy one from a vehicle near the Lake Winnipeg community of Lakeshore Heights.Urban wildlife serves to remind us we're just squatters on this tall-grass prairie, which we plowed under more than a century ago but never really managed to subdue. These animals entertain us but also connect us to a landscape that normally doesn't force us to stop and daydream about the fluid boundaries between the natural world and the environment we thought we manufactured for ourselves.See the full content of this document
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Where the Wild Things Are
this city / By Bartley Kives
The next time you see white-tailed deer grazing on grass next to a road or school or big-box store, please do not pick up your cellphone and dial 911.This unusual request was issued earlier this week by the Winnipeg Police Service, whi...See the full content of this document
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