Well if they were worried about it setting back progress, that’ll do it.
might partially explain why they seemed so tame, if they were sick/dying already.
Poor wee thing. Throw the book at whoever had it and released it
Instead of dying in the wild at some future point it was “”rescued”” and died trapped in an oversized cat carrier.
Very humane well done!
Fucks sake. Whoever thought it was a good idea to release these animals in an unfamiliar and rough territory during one of the coldest spells in 15 years needs a boot in the baws.
If you read the story you’ll see that the cause of death is unknown, yes it’s possible these random releases back into the wild might have something to do with it, but realistically no one here is qualified enough to know what happened.
They’ll do a full post mortem and we’ll probably figure out next week.
For those quite rightly crying animal cruelty…a reminder that the average lamb mortality rate in Scotland is something like 10-30% and those that survive then get caged & electrocuted on an industrial estate somewhere
Poor thing I hope they find the scum who abandoned these animals and punish them severely. Shitty people.
Did they just leave the Lynx in a cage over night in -14 weather? Maybe that would have contributed if that’s what happened?
Either way, the people who released these poor animals, that seemingly were as docile as pets, are utter scum.
Maybe a dumb question but if they are tame surely they wouldn’t be able to hunt for food and that anyway? Must not have hunt for food wherever they were kept beforehand right?
Not arguing for the illegal release one bit, but the act of capture itself can be highly stressful for animals, so it could well be linked to its recapture rather than being in the wild. I’m a zoologist and have ran traps for radio collaring several wild mammal species and have caught tens of thousands of birds for tagging. As one anecdotal example, we once had a pig-tailed macaque accidentally get caught in one of our traps set for clouded leopards and the poor thing had cardiac arrest and died as we approached the trap to release it. Post mortem confirmed it was an otherwise entirely healthy individual.
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Well if they were worried about it setting back progress, that’ll do it.
might partially explain why they seemed so tame, if they were sick/dying already.
Poor wee thing. Throw the book at whoever had it and released it
Instead of dying in the wild at some future point it was “”rescued”” and died trapped in an oversized cat carrier.
Very humane well done!
Fucks sake. Whoever thought it was a good idea to release these animals in an unfamiliar and rough territory during one of the coldest spells in 15 years needs a boot in the baws.
If you read the story you’ll see that the cause of death is unknown, yes it’s possible these random releases back into the wild might have something to do with it, but realistically no one here is qualified enough to know what happened.
They’ll do a full post mortem and we’ll probably figure out next week.
For those quite rightly crying animal cruelty…a reminder that the average lamb mortality rate in Scotland is something like 10-30% and those that survive then get caged & electrocuted on an industrial estate somewhere
Poor thing I hope they find the scum who abandoned these animals and punish them severely. Shitty people.
Post-mortem planned : [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c627rpkdp99o?at_link_origin=BBC_Scotland_News&at_link_id=8908C11A-D021-11EF-A2BB-969F862EC942&at_format=link&at_bbc_team=editorial&at_link_type=web_link&at_campaign=Social_Flow&at_ptr_name=facebook_page&at_campaign_type=owned&at_medium=social&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR3IrJDpd7N4yXVTrJK4DF36iCY4tzQ0lDZVuRx5vpyHnmuQuy3MYSRbcuQ_aem__Ybg_LF5bq8roy3LMNbnTQ](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c627rpkdp99o?at_link_origin=BBC_Scotland_News&at_link_id=8908C11A-D021-11EF-A2BB-969F862EC942&at_format=link&at_bbc_team=editorial&at_link_type=web_link&at_campaign=Social_Flow&at_ptr_name=facebook_page&at_campaign_type=owned&at_medium=social&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR3IrJDpd7N4yXVTrJK4DF36iCY4tzQ0lDZVuRx5vpyHnmuQuy3MYSRbcuQ_aem__Ybg_LF5bq8roy3LMNbnTQ)
Did they just leave the Lynx in a cage over night in -14 weather? Maybe that would have contributed if that’s what happened?
Either way, the people who released these poor animals, that seemingly were as docile as pets, are utter scum.
Maybe a dumb question but if they are tame surely they wouldn’t be able to hunt for food and that anyway? Must not have hunt for food wherever they were kept beforehand right?
Not arguing for the illegal release one bit, but the act of capture itself can be highly stressful for animals, so it could well be linked to its recapture rather than being in the wild. I’m a zoologist and have ran traps for radio collaring several wild mammal species and have caught tens of thousands of birds for tagging. As one anecdotal example, we once had a pig-tailed macaque accidentally get caught in one of our traps set for clouded leopards and the poor thing had cardiac arrest and died as we approached the trap to release it. Post mortem confirmed it was an otherwise entirely healthy individual.
Found this video, it’s from August 2024:
[https://www.tiktok.com/@wildlifewithcookie/video/7405651665732275489?_r=1&_t=ZG-8syqSqKSFGb](https://www.tiktok.com/@wildlifewithcookie/video/7405651665732275489?_r=1&_t=ZG-8syqSqKSFGb)
The lynx died *after* it was captured
Maybe it would have survived if the zoo left it alone?
There’s plenty of feral domestic cats living and surviving in the Highlands
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