Climate Change Could Wipe Out Iberian Lynx

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Climate change could ensure the wipe out of the Iberian Lynx, considered the world's most endangered cat, new research from Spain suggests.

src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiU8WkwK9pUHvvJdcM-dYRvtboKxv2HSjsGZhIITIpHXaaKH_CqCS81UglANJ-nm-uNoNHv7BDTyEcA0H1n9OuPWK6hrt6Eu5dys3oU_ZeAh4P9N7Wftw4onYv8rUm5be_wLF8hcPvUciw/s320/iberian-lynx-130721.jpg" title="iberian-lynx" width="320">Currently, about 300 of these adorable, pointy-eared, shaggy-bearded cats live in Spain and Portugal, dining mostly on rabbits. But according to a study publishing today (July 21) in the journal Nature Climate Change, warming temperatures and an increasingly dry local climate could kill off their staple food, making their extinction certain.

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