{"id":559,"date":"2009-03-19T02:18:20","date_gmt":"2009-03-18T20:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kashvet.org\/oasis\/?p=559"},"modified":"2009-03-25T01:35:02","modified_gmt":"2009-03-24T20:05:02","slug":"a-lynx-like-cat-seen-in-sopore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kashvet.org\/oasis\/general\/a-lynx-like-cat-seen-in-sopore\/","title":{"rendered":"A Lynx like cat seen in Sopore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The Lynx is a critically endangered member of the cat family. It is found in parts of Asia, Europe, and North America. Unlike its cousins, the tigers, lions and leopards, a Lynx is comparatively small.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The animal in these pictures resembles a Lynx in its appearance. It was found lying injured and unconscious in a village near Sopore 35 miles north-west of Srinagar. A vet Dr. Mir Wahid Ahmad Nazki tried to revive the animal but because of injuries received on its skull, the animal died shortly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Dr. Nazki who is a keen wildlife enthusiast immediately identified the animal as the endangered Lynx. It is relevant to mention here that no report of a Lynx sighting\u00a0has even been officially made in the Kashmir valley. It\u2019s only in the north-eastern region of Ladakh (especially Nubra Valley) that Lynx are seen. However, Dr. Nazki is very confident of his conclusion and has no doubts over the animal being a Lynx. According to him the cat which weighed up to 4 Kg\u2019s was a juvenile which might have accidently strayed in to the village.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">We are publishing the pictures here and hope our readers can confirm whether the animal is a Lynx or not. If it is, as Dr. Wahid Nazki claims, it gives hope to the conservation efforts and future of this rare and threatened specie of cats. Maybe nature is giving us another chance to protect this beautiful animal.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-560\" title=\"lynx-kashmir1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kashvet.org\/oasis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/lynx-kashmir1.jpg\" alt=\"lynx in kashmir\" width=\"554\" height=\"495\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-561\" title=\"lynx-kashmir2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kashvet.org\/oasis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/lynx-kashmir2.jpg\" alt=\"lynx in kashmir\" width=\"554\" height=\"416\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-562\" title=\"lynx-kashmir3\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kashvet.org\/oasis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/lynx-kashmir3.jpg\" alt=\"lynx in kashmir\" width=\"554\" height=\"416\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-563\" title=\"lynx-kashmir4\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kashvet.org\/oasis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/lynx-kashmir4.jpg\" alt=\"lynx in kashmir\" width=\"554\" height=\"707\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Dr. Wahid Nazki<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-564\" title=\"lynx-kashmir5\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kashvet.org\/oasis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/lynx-kashmir5.jpg\" alt=\"lynx in kashmir\" width=\"554\" height=\"509\" \/><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lynx is a critically endangered member of the cat family. It is found in parts of Asia, Europe, and North America. Unlike its cousins, the tigers, lions and leopards, a Lynx is comparatively small. The animal in these pictures resembles a Lynx in its appearance. It was found lying injured and unconscious in a [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,507],"tags":[512],"class_list":["post-559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-wildlife","tag-lynx-wildcat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kashvet.org\/oasis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kashvet.org\/oasis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kashvet.org\/oasis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kashvet.org\/oasis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kashvet.org\/oasis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=559"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.kashvet.org\/oasis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":570,"href":"https:\/\/www.kashvet.org\/oasis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559\/revisions\/570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kashvet.org\/oasis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kashvet.org\/oasis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kashvet.org\/oasis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}