Co-author Irina Rotenko
In mammals, it is not uncommon for adult males to assist mothers or engage in continuous fathering, and the lynx species Lynx lynx shows such behavior as well.
Continue reading “Adult male assistance in lynxes in Belarus: ideas and inferences”Recently, another former lynx den was discovered, which was active in the months of June and July.
Continue reading “One more case of lynx denning”Co-author Irina Rotenko
At the start of June, we discovered wolf pup tracks alongside numerous lynx footprints nestled between the root plates of two toppled spruces. We installed a camera trap at this location. Following our visit, the wolf pack seemed to have moved elsewhere. The camera trap documented numerically repeated visits by a yearling male lynx.
Continue reading “Accommodating a yearling male lynx in the original den where it was reared”Co-author Irina Rotenko
In mid-May 2023, an adult female lynx, whom we refer to as Mikhalina, gave birth within a densely layered treefall spanning approximately three hectares. She had three kittens. The following two photos depict the treefall.
Continue reading “Tracking the denning behavior of a model female lynx during the summer of 2024”Co-authors: Alieksandr Mysiev, Irina Rotenko and Dmitry Mysiev
In the winter of 2023-2024, we’ve captured two enlightening series of footage featuring large road pipes, remnants of Soviet-era construction, now seamlessly integrated into the forest’s landscape. These structures, though abandoned by humans, have found new purpose as integral parts of the local ecosystem, frequently visited by various animal species.
Continue reading “Observational insights: lynxes and wolves utilizing road pipes in Naliboki Forest”Co-author Irina Rotenko
In this blog we have presented our own materials on the interference between wolves and lynxes in Naliboki Forest, the north-western Belarus in several quite large posts before.
Continue reading “Afeared wolf is investigating a lynx marking spot”Co-author Irina Rotenko
In Naliboki Forest (the central-northern Belarus) as well as in other habitats in an individual lynx home range there are quite a lot sites, which are used by the individual lynx for a number of purposes.
Continue reading “Long-term frequent usage of a particular site by lynxes”Co-author Irina Rotenko
In one of the former posts we have already addressed to the question of usage of road pipes by lynxes. In the given post we provide some further results on the question including respective video-footage, while the former post was illustrated only by photo-registrations.
Continue reading “Lynx addiction to road pipes”Co-author Irina Rotenko
Mother lynx left her kittens in a sheltered place at a small beaver pond surrounded by reed thicket and went for hunting. After half an hour play, the kittens went to rest in the reed stand. Three hours later lynx mother reunited with them.
Continue reading “Video-documentation of stay of lynx kittens, when their mother went for hunting”Co-author Irina Rotenko
Since May 2021 in the protected area of Naliboki Forest consisting slightly more than one thousand square kilometres we traced six wolf litters. Altogether there were 35-40 wolf pups. In the mid-July there were registered 15 pups (2, 8 and 5). In September only one breeder group saved 4 pups. These breeder group consisted of mother, father and another adult female, which was like a pup-sitter. Till December they lost 3 more pups. In the beginning of January 2022 merely one pup walked with the three adult wolves there. That pup was the only single one in the the protected area of Naliboki Forest and the whole Naliboki Forest in the beginning of 2022.
Continue reading “Again very high mortality in wolf pups in Naliboki Forest in 2021: only one pup survived from 6 litters”
