Lynx eat snowshoe hares.
The hares breed and breed and breed until their numbers skyrocket, and then their population crashes. A year later the numbers of lynx and coyotes also plummet, and about every ten years this cycle repeats itself, again and again. That abbreviated description only hints at the links between snowshoe hares and their two main predators. For centuries people have known that hare populations go through spectacular cycles, sometimes increasing as much as 300 fold over the span of a cycle. Lynx and coyotes also increase in number before their populations crash, but not nearly as much as hares.