{"id":390447,"date":"2026-01-05T22:30:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T22:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/390447\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T22:30:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T22:30:07","slug":"see-it-adorable-lynx-family-caught-on-camera-in-nw-ontario","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/390447\/","title":{"rendered":"See it: Adorable lynx family caught on camera in NW Ontario"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Published on Jan. 5, 2026, 9:22 PM<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat a way to end 2025!\u201d Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Northwest Region in a Facebook post.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne, two, three, four &#8230; and then one lynx over there across the road!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One Ontario police officer ended 2025 on a high note, having had the opportunity to spot a lynx family in northwestern Ontario on December 31.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/OPPNorthWest\/posts\/pfbid074Fyr5xaRKnQGNPQokmV2m8VaMygn1XjKteocdkFTU3f5YsqWVPCLzWrTm4kDrDWl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Facebook post<\/a>, Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) said Constable Stubbington from the Armstrong detachment \u201cspotted something truly special while on patrol &#8211; a family of five Canada lynx: two adults and three kittens.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The OPP called the encounter \u201ca perfect final highlight for the year\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The lynx is one of the most prevalent big cats in Canada, and can be found in most parts of the country.<\/p>\n<p>This beautiful species has a total North American range of <a href=\"https:\/\/wildcatconservation.org\/wild-cats\/north-america\/canada-lynx\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">7.7 million km2<\/a>, although some of its habitat has been lost to deforestation and human activity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published on Jan. 5, 2026, 9:22 PM \u201cWhat a way to end 2025!\u201d Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Northwest&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":390448,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[49,48,66,323],"class_list":["post-390447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/390448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}