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Despite being brought up in the Nuremberg Zoo a young Carpathian lynx named Chapo was born to be wild.
Respecting his wishes, the German zookeepers abandoned their intention to raise him to eventually contribute his genes to a vital captive breeding program and release him into the wilds of Germany.
Now residing in the forests of Saxony, he joins a steadily growing population of wild lynx across Germany and Switzerland that are slinking back across the acreage they prowled long ago.
The Carpathian lynx is a subspecies of the Eurasian lynx, which while being listed as endangered on the IUCN Red List, is nevertheless extinct across large swaths of its former habitat.
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Respecting his wishes, the German zookeepers abandoned their intention to raise him to eventually contribute his genes to a vital captive breeding program and release him into the wilds of Germany.
Now residing in the forests of Saxony, he joins a steadily growing population of wild lynx across Germany and Switzerland that are slinking back across the acreage they prowled long ago.
The Carpathian lynx is a subspecies of the Eurasian lynx, which while being listed as endangered on the IUCN Red List, is nevertheless extinct across large swaths of its former habitat.
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German Zoo Honors Little Lynx's Wish to be Free After Repeat Escape Attempts
He joins three other lynx to be reintroduced this year, all of whom have "graduated" from hunting rabbits, to hunting foxes, to hunting deer.
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