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Current Status of the Eurasian Lynx. Cat News. (2016) ISSN 1027-2992 I Special Issue I N° 10 | Autumn 2016 CatsCAT in Iran news 02 CATnews is the newsletter of the Cat Specialist Group, a component Editors: Christine & Urs Breitenmoser of the Species Survival Commission SSC of the International Union Co-chairs IUCN/SSC for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). It is published twice a year, and is Cat Specialist Group available to members and the Friends of the Cat Group. KORA, Thunstrasse 31, 3074 Muri, Switzerland For joining the Friends of the Cat Group please contact Tel ++41(31) 951 90 20 Christine Breitenmoser at [email protected] Fax ++41(31) 951 90 40 <[email protected]> Original contributions and short notes about wild cats are welcome Send <[email protected]> contributions and observations to [email protected]. Guidelines for authors are available at www.catsg.org/catnews Cover Photo: From top left to bottom right: Caspian tiger (K. Rudloff) This Special Issue of CATnews has been produced with support Asiatic lion (P. Meier) from the Wild Cat Club and Zoo Leipzig. Asiatic cheetah (ICS/DoE/CACP/ Panthera) Design: barbara surber, werk’sdesign gmbh caracal (M. Eslami Dehkordi) Layout: Christine Breitenmoser & Tabea Lanz Eurasian lynx (F. Heidari) Print: Stämpfli Publikationen AG, Bern, Switzerland Pallas’s cat (F. Esfandiari) Persian leopard (S. B. Mousavi) ISSN 1027-2992 © IUCN/SSC Cat Specialist Group Asiatic wildcat (S. B. Mousavi) sand cat (M. R. Besmeli) jungle cat (B. Farahanchi) The designation of the geographical entities in this publication, and the representation of the material, do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the IUCN concerning the legal status of any country, territory, or area, or its authorities, or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries. CATnews Special Issue 10 Autumn 2016 Mousavi et al. MARZIEH MOUSAVI1,*, EHSAN M. MOQANAKI2, MOHAMMAD S. FARHADINIA2,3, Methods MOHAMMAD ALI ADIBI4, KUROS RABIEE5 AND SADEGH KHOSRAVI6 This study is based on review of confirmed literature records, personal interviews with The largest lesser cat in experienced people, and national question- naire surveys of provincial offices of Iran Iran - current status of the Department of Environment DoE (details in Moqanaki et al. 2010). Furthermore, a new Eurasian lynx questionnaire to DoE provincial offices was sent to obtain recent lynx observations and The study reviews the status of the Eurasian lynx Lynx lynx in Iran with regard to its mortality records from May 2011 to end geographic range, prey species, reproductive biology, human-lynx conflicts, caus- of September 2016. Thus, our updated da- es of mortality, and conservation measures, based on information from May 2011 tabase comprised various aspects of lynx to 2016. Based on a thorough literature review, personal interviews, and national biology, diet, mortality, and lynx-human questionnaire surveys, we conclude that the lynx is widely, but patchy distributed conflict from 1965-2016. We classified in North, North-West and West Iran. Iranian lynx feed on a variety of prey, including records prior to 2000 as “historic occur- hare Lepus spp., wild sheep Ovis orientalis, wild goat Capra aegagrus and rarely rence”. The remaining were categorised livestock. Although lynx-human conflicts were considered negligible, poach- following our previous report (i.e. Moqanaki ing accounted for 29.2% of the known lynx mortality, followed by herdsmen and et al. 2010): C1: “confirmed” occurrences or shepherd dogs, road accidents and other factors. Habitat degradation, traditional “hard facts”, C2: “probable” and C3: “un- livestock husbandry, and prey depletion were recognised as the most significant confirmed” records. threats to lynx in Iran. Conservation measures recommended are (1) evaluation of the conservation status of protected areas with lynx occurrence, (2) survey of lynx Description population status, research and conservation planning and (3) public awareness The Eurasian lynx is the largest member of the and engagement of local people. genus Lynx. In spite of being considered as a lesser felid, the lynx appears powerfully built As one of the most widespread felid species 2008). However, recent efforts have shown a with its strong and long legs. It has ears with (Sunquist & Sunquist 2002), the Eurasian lynx wider distribution in the Alborz and Zagros 4-7 cm long, black hair tufts, a well-devel- ranges from the Atlantic coast in Western Eu- mountain chains (see Moqanaki et al. 2010). oped facial mane hanging down from its low- 33 rope to the Pacific coast in the Russian Far In this paper, scattered information gener- er cheeks, and a short black-tipped tail about East (Nowell & Jackson 1996, Breitenmoser ated in recent years is compiled to provide a one-sixth of the head-body length (Nowell & et al. 2015). In Central and Western Europe, critical review of the current state of know- Jackson 1996). The winter fur colour is vari- where the lynx has been the subject of sever- ledge on different aspects, such as biology, able from grey to yellowish or brown to grey- al reintroduction efforts (review in von Arx et ecology, and legal status of the Eurasian lynx ish but the under parts of body are whitish al. 2009) and the populations have recovered as well as important protected areas for the (Sunquist & Sunquist 2002). Three main coat and expanded (Breitenmoser et al. 2015), species’ conservation in Iran. patterns for lynx are reported: predominantly continuous monitoring programmes have been established (Molinari-Jobin et al. 2012). Thus, our knowledge on lynx biology and ecol- ogy has greatly improved. However, very little is known on natural history and status of this species in eastern parts of its distribution, particularly from south-western Asia (Nowell & Jackson 1996). Knowledge of the lynx in Iran is quite scant and some confirmation of its occurrence go back to the late 1960s (see Moqanaki et al. 2010 for a review). To date, no more than a handful studies on the Iranian lynx have been carried out, with only one in situ study (i.e. Moqanaki et al. 2015). Previous literature (i.e. Etemad 1985, Ziaie 1996, Firouz 1999) exclu- sively addressed the limited data on distribu- tion of the lynx in the country, often with very few updates in the later publications (e.g. Fi- rouz 2005, Karami et al. 2008, Ziaie 2008). So far, the Iranian Caucasus (Azarbayjan region) was considered the only hotspot of this spe- Fig. 1. A free-ranging human-habituated lynx photographed in Sarab, East Azarbayjan cies in the country (Karami et al. 2008, Ziaie Province in 2003 (Photo F. Heidari). Cats in Iran Eurasian lynx Habitat The lynx in Europe and Siberia is known as a forest-dwelling species, and its habitat is closely connected with abundance of small ungulates (Breitenmoser et al. 2015). In con- trast lynx have been observed in thinly wood- ed areas in central Asia, also in thick scrub woodland and barren, rocky areas in the Him- alayas (Nowell & Jackson 1996). Eurasian lynx were recorded on elevation of 4,500 m in Ladakh; one female lynx with kittens was seen at 5,500 m (Sunquist & Sunquist 2002). Lynx habitat in Iran is primarily character- ised by mountainous forests and scrubland (Firouz 1999, Ziaie 2008), e.g. the Hyrcanian forests along the Caspian Sea coast and the fragments of Zagros oak forests stretching from the north-west towards south-west. However, the Iranian lynx persist through- out the semi-arid highland steppes in the Fig. 2. Distribution of historic (<2000) and present (≥2000) observations of the Eurasian southern slope of Alborz Mountains as far Lynx in Iran. White square: historic occurrence; red dot: C1; blue dot: C2; yellow dot: C3. as east in north-eastern Iran. The lynx in the Iranian Caucasus has been reported mainly spotted, predominantly striped and unpat- presence of lynx. In this study we present from the highland rocky areas (Fig. 3); al- terned (Nowell & Jackson 1996). However, new occurrence data from 2011-2015 (Fig. 2; though this may be partly a result of higher Thueler (2002) reported a fourth pattern with Supporting Online Material SOM Table T1). detection probabilities in more barren land- rosettes for the Alpine population. Based on Out of the current 31 Iranian provinces, scapes. Iranian lynx have been reported 34 46 individuals verified in this study, “flecks” we obtained C1 records in 17 provinces from a wide range of altitudes, varying from or “clear spots” were the predominant coat (SOM T1). The provinces with the highest 1,200 m to 2,300 m. pattern in Iran (Fig. 1). Morphological meas- number of C1 records are: East Azarbayjan Camera trapping efforts within the confirmed urements and weights for a total of 18 dead (n = 11), Mazandaran (n = 10), Qazvin (n = 8), range of the lynx in a number of Iranian pro- adult lynx have been collected (Table 1). and Semnan (n = 6). In Bushehr and Hormoz- tected areas, i.e. Anguran Wildlife Refuge gan Provinces along the Persian Gulf in the WR (Zanjan Province), Kiamaky WR (East Taxonomy south, together with Khuzestan Province in Azarbayjan Province), Golestan National The species has never been subject to taxo- the south-west and Qom in north-central Park NP(Golestan Province), Tandoureh NP nomic and phylogenetic investigations in Iran (Fig. 2), neither historic nor any contem- (Razavi Khorasan Province), and Dena NP Iran or its range in south-west Asia. How- porary records of the lynx presence (C1, C2, (Kohgiluyeh-va-Buyer Ahmad Province) in- ever, it has been assumed that the subspe- or C3) is available (SOM T1). Overall, our up- dicates presence of co-predators such as cies in Iran is L. l. dinniki (Karami et al. 2008) dated data confirms Moqanaki et al.
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