As evidenced by an incredible video captured in Ontario , humans are not the only members of the fauna kingdom prostrate to screaming matches .
Couple Edward Trist and Nicole Lewis were driving down a rural road near Avery Lake when they spotted twoCanada lynxeshaving a very forte , very tense showdown .
Excited by the chance encounter , both whipped out their phones and commemorate the issue , which features close - quarter stare - offs , several headbutts , and one classic feline paw swipe – all set to a cacophony of scream and howls that sound oddly similar to the screams of scratchy children .
After the result footage go viral on social media , Trist speak toGlobal Newsabout their unique experience .
“ We started off down this road and there were two lynx on the road and as we approached , they did n’t move which was really odd , ” he told the internet site . “ We fuck off out and started filming it … what we caught on television camera is very , very rarified to view . ”
Indeed , lynx do prefer to keep to themselves . The medium - sized uncivilised cats , institute throughout the chillyboreal forests in North America , know and search alone once they depart their female parent . Adult showdown are limit to district disputes and , during the spring mating season , brief rendezvous between males and females .
Given the timing of this picky encounter at the tail end of the season , Luke Hunter , chief conservation policeman for the wildcat preservation group Panthera , speculatedto Live Sciencethat the high tension palpable between the two reflects one or both of them being desperate to mate before the opportunity is misplace .
Because male and distaff lynxes attend the same , Hunter concede that it ’s potential the pair in the picture is two males or two female , contend over an unseen possible mate or den land site for kitten , respectively , but suggests it ’s more likely that the fundamental interaction reflects a not - so - still attempt at last - min procreation .
" They ’re sort of stand off from each other , and both are doing their best not to escalate , " he say .
" They ’re both torn ; they ’re both conflicted . They ’re both in a grave situation where they ’re not sure of the other ’s aim . They ’re both willing to maybe make a compromising gesture [ the question butting ] . But when they actually touch , that ’s really scary , and they back off and near get into it . "
Although the adaptation shared online only hold up about one minute , Trist told Global News that the lynx ’ petulant tête - à - tête actually move on for more than 10 hour , and the two remain focused on each other even as Trist and Lewis attract away and go across them in their car .
Humans are , therefore , also not the only animals who sometimes turn down to back down from arguments out of bullheadedness .
