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Rare photo of lynx using Banff highway overpass delights wildlife experts
CalgaryHerald via EdmontonJournal ^ | Valerie Fortney,

Posted on 04/12/2012 2:01:19 PM PDT by Daffynition

He weighs in at up to 14 kilograms, but thanks to his enormous feet shaped almost like snowshoes, looks as though he is floating on air as he ambles along the snow.

His legs are long and powerful, his coat is thick and grey, and the patches of fur that frame his face look like the kind of beard sported by aristocrats.

(Excerpt) Read more at edmontonjournal.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Outdoors; Pets/Animals; Travel
KEYWORDS: kittyping
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1 posted on 04/12/2012 2:01:28 PM PDT by Daffynition
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2 posted on 04/12/2012 2:05:32 PM PDT by Daffynition (Our forefathers would be shooting by now.)
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To: Daffynition

I think its a cool idea as long as I don’t have to pay for it. The cost of teaching all those animals to read must be enormous.


3 posted on 04/12/2012 2:12:11 PM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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To: Yehuda

“Zee burglar of Banff-ff-ff!”


5 posted on 04/12/2012 2:16:41 PM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: Slings and Arrows

Wild kitty ping?


6 posted on 04/12/2012 2:17:04 PM PDT by ZirconEncrustedTweezers (The only thing a straight white man gets in this country is the blame for everything.)
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7 posted on 04/12/2012 2:30:58 PM PDT by Bobalu (It is not obama we are fighting, it is the media.)
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To: cripplecreek
Some never learn...I blame the teacher's unions. Up hre in Maine....


8 posted on 04/12/2012 2:56:30 PM PDT by Daffynition (Our forefathers would be shooting by now.)
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9 posted on 04/12/2012 2:57:13 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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10 posted on 04/12/2012 2:58:20 PM PDT by Daffynition (Our forefathers would be shooting by now.)
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To: Bobalu
LOL...we don't need no skinkin' lynx!


11 posted on 04/12/2012 3:00:45 PM PDT by Daffynition (Our forefathers would be shooting by now.)
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To: SJackson
Missing lynx ping


12 posted on 04/12/2012 3:04:40 PM PDT by Daffynition (Our forefathers would be shooting by now.)
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13 posted on 04/12/2012 3:05:56 PM PDT by Daffynition (Our forefathers would be shooting by now.)
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To: Daffynition

A number of years ago on one of my pheasant hunting trips to N.W. Kansas, we encountered an early snowfall one night. The next day, while hunting along a section of railroad tracks, I came across the tracks of a bobcat that was actually walking along one of the rails for at least a quarter of a mile......then it broke off and went into the woods. That was cool......


14 posted on 04/12/2012 3:09:41 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco
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If that photo of the wildlife overpass is accurate then I have no problem with their construction. The alternative of course would be vehicular collisions equaling what is happening here in Michigan.
15 posted on 04/12/2012 3:14:45 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco
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To: Hot Tabasco

I think we need to allow more deer permits and maybe even give the out of state crowd a break on the cost.


16 posted on 04/12/2012 3:17:49 PM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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To: Slings and Arrows; Daffynition

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Thanks to both of you for a delightful thread.

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17 posted on 04/12/2012 3:22:12 PM PDT by LucyT
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To: Hot Tabasco

There are several of those wildlife bridge corridors on the highway. The wildlife, elk, moose, you name it are funneled
with high fencing to the bridges. Before they were built, you took you life in your hands driving that road.


18 posted on 04/12/2012 3:24:03 PM PDT by OregonRancher (Some days, it's not even worth chewing through the restraints)
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To: Hot Tabasco

“If that photo of the wildlife overpass is accurate then I have no problem with their construction.”

From the article: “Its hefty price tag — wildlife mitigation measures are estimated to account for nearly one-third of the $310-million cost of the Trans-Canada Highway twinning project from Castle Junction to the B.C. border alone”.

I have problems, cash problems with such problems. Sell hunting permits until the herds are thinned. Tax reduction and fee bonanza.

Hundred Million Dollar Photo - nauseating!


19 posted on 04/12/2012 3:24:16 PM PDT by GladesGuru (In a society predicated upon freedom, it is necessary to examine principles."...the public interest)
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To: Slings and Arrows; Daffynition

Very nice, and good for the health everyone and every animal involved.


20 posted on 04/12/2012 3:46:30 PM PDT by TheOldLady (FReepmail me to get ON or OFF the ZOT LIGHTNING ping list)
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