[HN Gopher] Endangered Iberian lynx population jumps 10-fold
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       Endangered Iberian lynx population jumps 10-fold
        
       Author : finphil
       Score  : 25 points
       Date   : 2021-05-29 19:41 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (phys.org)
 (TXT) w3m dump (phys.org)
        
       | Zenst wrote:
       | Be interesting to know the effects upon many species over the
       | past year of reduced human interaction.
        
         | Glavnokoman wrote:
         | Why do you believe there were less interaction over the past
         | year? Here in CH they reported the change in wild life behavior
         | due to increased interaction with people. Basically the cities
         | were on lock-down so the crowd just went to the mountains.
        
           | Zenst wrote:
           | Well the article does mention hunting and road-kill as some
           | of the causes in the decline, of which both activities would
           | be less prominent with lock-downs in many area's.
        
       | sadfev wrote:
       | Still only 1100 exist in the wild.
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       | Their equilibrium population was over 100000!
        
       | TulliusCicero wrote:
       | It says that the biggest factor in their population collapse was
       | a decline in the number of wild rabbits due to disease. Has that
       | problem resolved itself or been dealt with?
        
         | diegocg wrote:
         | The disease is Myxomatosis, it still exists and won't disappear
         | anytime soon. The government makes sure to introduced rabbits
         | in the areas where the Lynx lives if there aren't enough of
         | them.
        
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