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Wildcats come in all sizes. Canada lynx look more like a housecat than a 400-pound lion or tiger. They weigh only 20 to 30 pounds. But they do something your average housecat doesn’t do—journey across thousands of miles of wilderness!
Scientists used to think that Canada lynx spent their entire lives within the same 20 square miles. But in 2015, researchers started tracking lynx using GPS collars. The collars showed the wildcats traveling long, one-way routes across the upper regions of North America. Scientists suspect lynx make these journeys to follow snowshoe hare, their favorite prey.