If you haven’t heard what a lynx sounds like when it wants to call for another lynx, just brace yourself. It’s weird. Fierce Focus Outdoors recently shared excellent footage and audio of a Canada lynx making its unique mating call, and you’ll have to turn up your volume for this one.
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“Yip, that’s how they sound,” wrote Fierce Focus Outdoors in the video’s caption.
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“Sounds like an old woman dying!” joked one person in the comments section.
“I love [lynxes] and Bobcats, but this sound sounds like somebody in distress,” wrote another.
Turn your volume up to hear a lynx’s mating call below (or watch here).
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