The Lynx is a secretive forest mammal well suited to winter. It remains active all winter except during the severest weather, when it beds-down in the snow under an evergreen branch or log. Lynx depend heavily on Hares for food, and their populations fluctuate in sync with that of their favourite prey. Otherwise, their diet includes birds such as ducks and sparrows, as well as the carrion of Moose and Caribou.
Lynx have few predators besides Cougars and Wolves.
Many females will breed during their first winter. They construct rough beds under a rocky ledge, windfall, or low branch. The young stay with the females during their first winter, then become increasingly less dependent. The Lynx inhabits the broad boreal forest belt across Canada. Its southern boundary has receded northward in recent years, such that it is now extirpated in many southern areas in eastern Canada.