{"id":557651,"date":"2026-04-01T05:56:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T05:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/557651\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T05:56:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T05:56:15","slug":"elusive-canada-lynx-shown-leaping-effortlessly-through-forest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/557651\/","title":{"rendered":"Elusive Canada lynx shown leaping ‘effortlessly’ through forest"},"content":{"rendered":"

Trail-cam footage captured in Canada\u2019s Yukon Territory reveals the extraordinary leaping ability of the Canada lynx.<\/p>\n

\u201cLooking for an evening meal, a Canada lynx effortlessly leaps ~ 8 feet in pursuit of a squirrel,\u201d David Troup of Yukon Wildlife Cams stated Tuesday via Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Lynx jumping in pursuit of squirrel.<\/p>\n

Troup’s footage was slowed to show detail of the lynx in flight. (Click here<\/a> if video player does not appear below.)<\/p>\n

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Canada lynx are secretive forest dwellers and rarely encountered by humans, but they are not shy around Troup’s motion-sensor cameras.<\/p>\n

According to the Canadian Wildlife Federation<\/a>, lynx subsist largely on snowshoe hares. But they also prey on squirrels, grouse, voles, mice, and foxes.<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on For The Win: Elusive lynx caught on video leaping through forest after squirrel<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Trail-cam footage captured in Canada\u2019s Yukon Territory reveals the extraordinary leaping ability of the Canada lynx. \u201cLooking for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":557652,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[103,129258,247487,247486,247488,79,201,38215,175366],"class_list":{"0":"post-557651","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-canada","9":"tag-canada-lynx","10":"tag-canadian-wildlife-federation","11":"tag-david-troup","12":"tag-forest-dwellers","13":"tag-science","14":"tag-wildlife","15":"tag-yukon-territory","16":"tag-yukon-wildlife-cams"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=557651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/557652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}