A female lynx released into the wild in Saxony last year has set off on a migration to Thuringia. The cat with the brush ears had traveled more than 150 kilometers from the Ore Mountains to reach the Saale Valley in Thuringia, according to the Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union (Nabu) in Jena. This was confirmed by an image from a wildlife camera. The animal was the female lynx Nova from a Saxon reintroduction project.
The big cat had passed the A72 and A9 highways on its migration and also the A4 north towards Jena, explained Nabu's lynx project manager Silvester Tamás. "Female lynxes are not actually keen to travel such long distances; however, they may well be motivated to look for a male lynx during the so-called breeding season."
