Lynx make long, wailing calls to attract mates, low growls to claim their territory, and short barks to locate offspring.

Three distinct calls were noted in a 1998 study published in Canadian Field Naturalist. “Bobcats are about the same size and make similar sounds in terms of pitch,” he said in an email. Fish and Wildlife Service, noted that they’re not much bigger than house cats and only weigh around 15 to 30 pounds. While the cats can appear large in photos, Jim Zelenak, a biologist with the U.S. RELATED: Video Shows the Bizarre Sound of a Lynx Screaming Match Maine's Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife describe the animals as naturally calm animals that are generally ambivalent to people. With their large teeth and claws, lynx could easily inflict damage during fights for territory, but they instead caw at each other, leaving both uninjured. The aggressive calls, McCollough says, serve as a substitute for physical combat. Where fewer hares are available, lynx must roam larger territories to find food.

The size of a lynx’s range is based on the availability of its main prey, snowshoe hares. 'In Maine, home ranges average about 27 square miles for males and about 12 square miles for females,” he says. Lynxes, and particularly males like the two in the video, have large ranges and may have been meeting for the first time. The road may mark a boundary between their two territories. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Maine office. The lynx in the video are in the middle of a territorial dispute, explains b iologist Mark McCollough, who oversees endangered species for the U.S. In 2010, a video showed two lynx sitting face-to-face at night and mewing at each other for nearly five minutes before one walked off. Instead of a ferocious roar or a dainty mew, the calls made by these majestic creatures sound more like a squeaky door hinge. But when these big cats open their mouths, grace and beauty aren’t the first words to come to mind. A graceful lynx bounding through the snow is beautiful.

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