Harrison quoted in Earth Touch News article on lynx
Daniel Harrison, a professor of wildlife ecology at the University of Maine, was quoted in an Earth Touch News article about a pair of Canada lynx that a Maine resident found caterwauling at each other on the side of a road in Somerset County. Harrison said such behavior is common, and the noises are intended to intimidate as each cat tries to proclaim dominance. “Cats are so well-equipped that they kind of avoid violence at all costs, because when they do get in a fight somebody gets hurt,” said Harrison. And the location also was not out of the ordinary. “Lynx use roads for travel corridors, so lynx encounter other lynx along roads. The vast majority of lynx on roads we never see because they’re in the woods before we notice them,” he said.