Pussy Galore

The lynx returns to Colorado

After a deluge of depressing news about dying polar bears and baby walruses (who we love and would never, ever joke about), finally some good animal tidings! The fuzzy-wuzzy lynx is endangered in Colorado and threatened in 47 other states, but a Colorado Division of Wildlife program is making progress returning the wild cats to the state. Lynx disappeared from Colorado in 1973, thanks to poison laid out by ranchers and shrunken habitat from development. By the end of April, the Division of Wildlife will have reintroduced over 200 of the tuft-eared cats, fitted with satellite collars so they can be tracked. The agency has verified that at least 105 kittens have been born in the last three years, but the population is not yet self-sustaining; cats will continue to be reintroduced until at least 2008. We'd make a joke about the missing lynx, but that would just be too obvious.