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I took this a few years ago at Skansen in Stockholm, Sweden.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I want to cuddle it so bad

[–] FuglyDuck 25 points 1 year ago

cuddle safely from a distance.

yeah.
I know. the pain is real

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Me too, that fur looks so soft and amazing

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

They are the BEST paws

[–] Sheeple 15 points 1 year ago

Murder kitty

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I really wanna rub that belly.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You'd definitely die. Still worth it.

[–] SgtAStrawberry 4 points 1 year ago

Depends on how old it is, I definitely don't recommend it with an adult or any wild one, but a kitten at a zoo, you could definitely survive. I have even seen the workers pet and hug tiger cubs and it was part of the work.

[–] Captain_Waffles 3 points 1 year ago

Same, so fluffy 😻

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Adorable ^.^

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Sadly these things are quite rare, I've only ever seen one in nature.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well even on not being rare, lynxes are stalking predators. Given what noisy clumsy travels us humans are and their keen senses, one is lucky to see a lynx. Since firstly they are always stalking or hiding just naturally and specially so hiding upon most likely spotting human way before human spots them. One could go right by one and not notice it. We aren't on their menu given our size and not being normally encountered prey species. Also as stalkers unless it is something like a mother lynx protecting its young, it won't make itself known. Far rather hides and let's you pass without encounter. Since one less risk of the lynx getting injured in fight, if it can't just hide away and go unnoticed.

Though on top of that some species of lynx are very endangered.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

It's surely possible I've been seen by a lynx more times than I've seen one.

A pity.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I know what you mean. Been touring the mountainside for years and i only managed to see one once, it was condescendingly judging me from a cliff above as i relieved myself in the bushes.

[–] DepressedCoconut 10 points 1 year ago

They are very shy animals. They see and hear you way before you know they are in the area. You only see them if they allow you to.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Interestingly it is not unheard of seeing them among the houses in the northern suburbs of Stockholm, it is very rare, but not ungeard of.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 year ago

Nope, that's a dog.