Скачать или смотреть The Lynx of Tower Fall

Yellowstone is a big place. The vast majority of it truly is untrammeled wilderness, which holds its mysteries pretty tightly. One of those mysteries surrounds Canada Lynx. Parts of Yellowstone are excellent habitat for lynx -- but do any lynx live in Yellowstone?

Just over twenty years ago, a team of biologists at Yellowstone undertook a study to find out. They identified potential lynx habitats throughout the park, characterized by high-elevation forests and presence of lynx's main prey, snowshoe hares. One such area is part of the upcoming Tower Fall DLC map -- on the slopes of Mount Washburn, south of the Tower Fall waterfall. They visited each area in winter, looking for lynx tracks in the snow, and also placed hair snares on trees, hoping to capture some fur when lynx rubbed against trees to mark them. Unfortunately, they found no sign of lynx in our game map area, but they did find signs in east-central Yellowstone (east of Yellowstone Lake) -- including signs of lynx kittens, indicating at least one breeding pair. (They did not survey the northern range, where the other WolfQuest maps are, because those are not as suitable for lynx and no lynx sign had been spotted there during biologists' field surveys.)

So there's no known lynx in the area of our Tower Fall game map -- but since we don't expect to create a map of east-central Yellowstone, this was our best chance to add lynx to a Yellowstone game map -- so we're taking it! (But lynx will only be in this Yellowstone map, no others.)

Lynx are scarce and solitary, so you'll probably only see them, very occasionally, at a carcass. But because they're so secretive, we have also set up a number of perches where lynx can relax and survey their domain. If you come across a lynx on one of these rocks or other objects, you can look but you can't touch (and they'll keep an eye on you but can't hurt you either). Finding a lynx on a perch warrants an achievement, so we created one -- and what else could we call it but "Cat Post."

Lynx and all the other elements of the Tower Fall DLC map are shaping up well. We expect to release the map pretty soon!
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Research Study:
The Elusive Canada Lynx: Surveying for Yellowstone’s Most Secretive Threatened Carnivore
by Kerry Murphy, Tiffany Potter, James Halfpenny, Kerry Gunther, Tildon Jones, and Peter Lundberg
https://npshistory.com/publications/y...