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Lynx Behavior Has Changed

From Postimees · () Estonian

Translated from Estonian and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

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Opinion Named sources Context piece
  • Biologist and nature photographer Rein Kuresoo says he saw lynxes only a few times before 2022 but has encountered them every year since.
  • He links the animals’ growing willingness to approach settlements to a full hunting ban.
  • Kuresoo questions whether people should regulate lynxes, their prey or human interference in nature when prey animals disappear.

For most of his active life in nature, biologist and nature photographer Rein Kuresoo saw lynxes only a few times. Since 2022, he says, he has encountered them every year.

Two decades ago, the lynx was a hunter’s dream: a nearly invisible forest ghost that only a few people ever saw with their own eyes. A complete hunting ban has gradually changed that behavior, Kuresoo writes. The large, tuft-eared predator now dares to come increasingly close to human settlements.

That shift raises uncomfortable questions when the lynx’s prey begins to disappear. Should lynxes be regulated, or should attention turn to roe deer? Or is the real issue human intervention in how nature functions?

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Originally published by Postimees in Estonian. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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