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Wildcat in a winter wonderland
冬天仙境里的野猫
If you’re lucky, you can catch a glimpse of this wily wildcat species in many places across Alaska and far-northern Canada. But here in Montana, a Canada lynx encounter like this is rare. While lynxes are known to live in cold climates from Washington state to Maine, they’ve been listed for two decades as threatened across the lower 48 states.
如果你幸运的话，你可以在阿拉斯加和加拿大北部的许多地方瞥见这种狡猾的野猫物种。但在蒙大拿，这样的加拿大猞猁相遇是很罕见的。从华盛顿州到缅因州，猞猁都生活在寒冷的气候中，但在美国本土的48个州，它们已经被列为濒危物种20年了。
This protective status under the Endangered Species Act—enacted on this day in 1973—aims to keep lynx and other animal populations healthy even in the face of climate change, habitat loss, and other threats to their survival. One success story: There’s now a stable lynx population far south of here in the Colorado Rockies, where the once-extirpated cats were reintroduced in 1999.
1973年的今天，美国通过了《濒危物种法》(Endangered Species act)，旨在保护猞猁和其他动物的健康，即使它们面临气候变化、栖息地丧失和其他生存威胁。一个成功的例子是:在科罗拉多州落基山脉以南的地方，现在有了稳定的猞猁种群，在1999年，曾经灭绝的猞猁在那里重新被引入。
Answer Key/答案：
This chilled-out cat is a Canada…
A Lynx
B Bobcat
C Cougar
Canada lynxes are common across Alaska and northern Canada, but considered threatened in the handful of lower 48 states where they can still be found. Like the solitary lynx in our picture, these cats are lone predators, avoiding other lynxes altogether except during the monthlong mating season
The Canada lynx mostly preys on…
A Mountain goats
B Rabbits
C Ducks
It’s always rabbit season for lynxes: They’re so dependent on snowshoe hares for food, lynx populations boom and bust with the rise and fall of hare populations. That’s putting it simply, anyway—the full story is a lot nerdier..
What’s home territory for the Lynx of the Women’s National Basketball League?
A Montana
B Minnesota
C Maine
The Land of 10,000 Lakes is also home to a few hundred actual lynxes, a fact the local WNBA squad honored when they chose their name in 1999. Since then, they’ve won four championships, a tally matched only by the defunct Houston Comets and recently by the Seattle Storm.