Canada lynx

A Canada lynx sits upright in snow, thick gray winter coat fluffed out, long black ear tufts standing tall. Its big, spreading paws work like snowshoes, which is how it follows its main prey, the snowshoe hare, across the boreal forest of Canada and Alaska. No other cat depends so heavily on a single prey animal: hare numbers peak roughly every eight to eleven years, and lynx numbers rise and fall with them.