Introducing animals that are too genetically different ... One of the most severe cases of reduced genetic diversity is the Iberian lynx, once the world's most threatened cat species.

Thanks to captive breeding programmes, and tender loving care, there are now more than 2,000 of these carnivores — Europe’s ...

But the 25-pound Iberian lynx, icon of Spain and Portugal, is on shaky turf. Its wild count is about 225 animals, up from 100 a decade ago but far too low for long-term survival. Hunting ...

"The Iberian lynx was very ... but also so they stay away from people and their animals. "A lynx should be a lynx, not be treated like a house cat." So the lynxes never associate food with ...

Sitting in front of an array of computer monitors, keepers record behaviors of their 41 Iberian lynx on the hour, 24/7. On this hot afternoon, the animals—a mix of breeding females, cubs ...

I was 14," Miguel recalls; "it was such a beautiful animal.” Now he helps lead a ... happens to any of the cubs - every young Iberian lynx is precious. The adult lynx, and their new cubs ...

Images can range from animal portraiture, action or behaviour ... Andrés Luis Dominguez Blanco (Spain) shows an Iberian lynx surveying the valley from a rosemary-covered hillside. Spain’s Sierra de ...