My naming conventions are a bit different. I call North American lynx the “Canada lynx,” which is just like what we call the goose. I also call the Siberian lynx the “Eurasian lynx,” because it is found throughout Eurasia, not just in Siberia. It lived in Britain until about a 1000 years ago.
To find out how the Canada lynx’s relationship to the snowshoe hare can affect a whole ecosystem, check out this post.
I absolutely love the French Canadian name for the Canada lynx– Loup Cervier.
In English, this got mistranslated as “Lucifer,” so if you read any stories about Anglophone Canadians trapping Lucifer, that’s what they were catching.
Thank you for this information. I, too have heard many tails about the infamous lucivee from old timers here in the county, (Maine), and find lucifer equally common. I trapped a few bobcats in the ’60’s but soon turned to tracking these elusive cats and have since enjoyed many winters on snowshoes in persuit of many generations of both loup-cervier, bobcat and Canada lynx.