A wild cat with broad paws for moving through snow and black-tipped ear tufts.
Its large paws are thickly furred underneath. The coat ranges from reddish brown to grayish brown, with cheek ruffs and black-tipped ear tufts.
It lives mainly in northern coniferous and mixed forests and feeds mostly on snowshoe hares. Some lynx travel farther when hare numbers are low.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.