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This 3 month old Canadian lynx is part of a litter of six babies born at the Winnipeg Zoo. Lynxes ranges across Canada and into Alaska as well as some parts of the northern United States. The lynx has a dense silvery-brown coat and may bear blackish markings with a ruffed face and tufted ears. It is over twice the size of a domestic cat. The lynx has a furry ruff which resembles a double-pointed beard, a short tail with a black tip, and long furry tufts on its ears. Its long legs with broad furred feet aid in traveling through deep snow. A lynx's averages 18 to 24 lbs, 31 to 41 inches in length, and has a shoulder height of 19 to 22 inches. Males are larger than females. The lynx has 28 teeth, with four long canines for puncturing and gripping. Adaptations that lynx have for manoeuvering through the deep snow are feet with a large gap between the first and second toes and their big toe set at a wide angle which gives them a better vicelike grip on the snow. Although normally solitary, at times small groups may be observed traveling together. The lynx roam about 1.5 to 3 miles each day, and thus require a large territory. Typical home ranges are between 5.8 and 19 square miles. Like other cats, Canada lynx use scent marking to indicate their territory. They feed predominantly on snowshoe hares, which typically comprise 60% to 97% of their diet; as a result, the size of the lynx population tends to run parallel to the 10 year long rise and decline of hare's numbers.