The Canada lynx is an iconic symbol of wilderness and is an important part of Canadian ecology and history. The lynx is a top predator and hunts primarily snowshoe hare. Because of this, the abundance of hare directly affects the abundance of lynx and vice versa.
This relationship has become the classic example of predator-prey cycling. A lynx population will grow given enough hare to hunt. This increases hare predation and causes hare population to decline. When the hare population drops low enough the lynx population drops dramatically. But then the hares rebound allowing the lynx to recover. Up and down the populations fluctuate as the predator-prey cycle repeats.
From the 1600s to the 1870s, the fur trade was the main economic driver for European exploration and colonization of Canada and ultimately Canada’s nationhood. Trade companies relied heavily on trade with Indigenous trappers (predominantly supplying beaver pelts, but also lynx, mink, and other furs). The fur trade pushed economic and cultural relationships between Europeans and Indigenous people, but not without indelible impacts.
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