Canadian Taiga Animals: The Canadian Lynx

The Canadian Lynx is a grayish-white color, and looks like a giant house cat.  It's a North American mammal of the cat family after all.

The lynx's diet contains the snowshoe hare, and the lynx is specialized in catching the hare.  The lynx can catch the hare, even with a continuous amount of snow falling on the ground.  Also the lynx can see the hare, which is white, which is difficult where there is a lot of snow.

The only animal that can catch the lynx is the siamese bobcat, so naturally, the bobcat is the lynx's only predator.

Every ten or fifteen years, the lynx population will decrease when the snowshoe hare population eats so much vegetation that there is none left to eat, so the hare dies.  Then while they have no prey, the lynx starts to die too.  This is an example of a food web.  The Taiga is a gigantic ecosystem, so it has a gigantic food web.  When one animal fails to survive in the food web of the Taiga, then it hurts another species.