Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2018/07/19/this-lynx-became-buddies-with.html
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Cat adopts human for improved access to food. Yup, checks out.
Also, stunning footage! 
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Big kittttehhhhhhh
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I can’t help to think that that was a bait bunny. I mean there’s foot prints leading up to where the bunny sitting.
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Tame the wild animal so you can photograph it in its natural environment? I suppose that’s better than killing and mounting it.
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Firstly… ohhhh bunny!
Next, I would have loved to have that job when I was 15.
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From the buildup, I assumed they were eventually going to bone, so the actual ending was kind of jarring. But thinking about it, maybe more rom-coms should pan out like this.
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Image by TaucetianService on DeviantArt
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76 DAYS, and likely more! The most I’ve ever been out in the open was 60 days, and I was deliriously craving creature comforts by then.
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Mountain lions, coyotes and hawks will accompany humans - moving parallel to their path - because they have learned that the prey will be paying attention to the humans. We are their beaters.
I’m not surprised to see a lynx doing it.
Easy lunch.
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I thought the lynx would end up head-butting the cameraman at the crack of dawn and bringing him little dead ‘gifts’.
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Sooo sweet. But a sudden realisation about inspiration occurs - Tenniel must have visited lynx country:
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Wow, that’s a really striking visual parallel!
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My thoughts exactly! I’ve always loved the Tenniel illustrations for Alice, and when that shot came up it was instantly recognisable.
With apologies to Carroll:
“Well! I’ve often seen a lynx without a grin,’ thought Alice 'but a grin without a lynx! It’s the most curious thing i ever saw in my life!”
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