{"id":67269,"date":"2017-01-12T21:05:49","date_gmt":"2017-01-13T04:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/dead-lynx-identified-as-11%c2%bd-year-old-male-born-in-telluride\/"},"modified":"2017-01-13T04:05:49","modified_gmt":"2017-01-13T04:05:49","slug":"dead-lynx-identified-as-11%c2%bd-year-old-male-born-in-telluride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/dead-lynx-identified-as-11%c2%bd-year-old-male-born-in-telluride\/","title":{"rendered":"Dead lynx identified as 11\u00bd-year-old male born in Telluride"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=a82bb8de-260c-4b21-b5ee-52ff4bd51e22&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1125\" alt=\"A lynx found dead at Purgatory Resort has been identified as a 11\u00bd-year-old male born in Telluride.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">A lynx found dead at Purgatory Resort has been identified as a 11\u00bd-year-old male born in Telluride.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Courtesy<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>A lynx found dead at Purgatory Resort on Jan. 8 died of natural causes, Colorado Parks and Wildlife announced Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The lynx was seen by dozens of people at the ski area, and a video of the cat was viewed on social media nearly 1 million times.<\/p>\n<p>A necropsy of the 11-year-old male found a tumor in the animal\u2019s throat that prevented it from eating. Although not common, tumors are found in wildlife, Wednesday\u2019s news release from Parks and Wildlife said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe cat lived a long life in the wild and spent its time in some of Colorado\u2019s most incredible backcountry,\u201d said Scott Wait, senior terrestrial biologist for CPW\u2019s southwest region.<\/p>\n<p>A chip was found in the lynx that revealed the cat was born in the Bear Creek area near Telluride in 2005. The cat\u2019s mother was one of the original lynx released in the reintroduction program. A record number of lynx dens, 16, were reported  that year by biologists.<\/p>\n<p>In 2009, the cat was captured and fitted with a GPS collar, which revealed that it was living in the remote area between Telluride, Rico and the Purgatory ski area. The collar eventually fell off the animal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe lynx lived in what is the best type of habitat for its species, high elevation and thick spruce-fir forest. This shows that much of Colorado\u2019s high country is suitable lynx habitat,\u201d Wait said.<\/p>\n<p>Southwest wildlife officer Patt Dorsey said last week that the lynx was being tested at a Fort Collins laboratory.<\/p>\n<p>Dorsey said the lynx was known to wildlife officials and that it likely had many offspring.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s really old for a wild cat,\u201d Dorsey said.<\/p>\n<p>The average lifespan for a lynx is up to 15 years.<\/p>\n<p>A video of a lynx strolling through the slopes of Purgatory surfaced Dec. 28 and instantly gained national attention. The video was posted by Durango resident Arrick Hix.<\/p>\n<p>At least two subsequent videos of a lynx at the resort were posted on social media sites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Official says animal was tagged<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":67270,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[382,21,13,712,603],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-67269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-animal","tag-cortez","tag-frontpage-lead","tag-purgatory","tag-wildlife"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67269"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=67269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}