Large predators are known to be dangerous but they usually don't live close to humans.
There are places where one might come across them by just going outdoors.
Today's story will take us to one of the most beautiful places in the world.
The city of Anchorage in Alaska.
Fantastic landscape views can be seen on all sides including Alaska's Chugach Mountain
range and Cook Bay.
Photographer Tim Newton lives on the outskirts of Anchorage.
A man said that he often sees "foxes and bears" near his house.
So he even learned to identify his guests, by the noises they make.
One morning, Tim heard the characteristic noise coming from the porch of his house once
again.
“We basically live on the edge of the forest.
So we're used to being visited by wild animals”, says Tim.
However, this time the sounds were somewhat unusual.
So Tim went out to personally see who had come to visit him that day.
When Tim saw the guests, he thought that they were ordinary cats and opened the door to
chase them away from the porch.
However, the two kittens didn't seem to pay any attention to Tim.
Then suddenly the man realized that those weren't regular cats, but links Cubs.
Sure.
The links isn't the rarest animal in that area.
But big cats don't like being around people.
So they do their best to avoid coming across them.
Tim had met links is in the local forest, but they always ran away too quickly.
And therefore Tim had nothing to show for it, but a couple of blurry pictures.
However, it was something completely different.
Having the links has come to the man's home.
It was very early in the morning and the lighting was poor, but luckily the links has stayed
on the porch long enough for Tim to photograph them from all angles.
At first, only two kittens were playing at the door, but after Tim scared them by opening
the door, they ran away.
However, a few minutes later, they returned with their brothers, sisters, and mother.
The lynx family seemed to feel quite comfortable on the porch of the photographer's house.
They look so cute.
It's hard not to want to pet them.
The links has just kept coming, and coming, says Tim.
They obviously enjoyed using my porch as a playground.
The photographer was incredibly lucky.
It seemed as if the animals had specifically come over to pose forum.
While the lynxes were playing at the door of his house.
Tim managed to take about 200 photos.
“It was nice to see seven kittens playing on our porch.
Their mother was very alert and looked at the photographer and his camera for a long
time”, The photographer wrote on Facebook.
The lynxs is spent a little less than an hour at Tim's house, after which they calmly retired
back into the forest.
Taking a picture of an adult links in the wild is quite difficult.
Let alone a whole family.
And these kittens seem to be deliberately posing for the camera.
Tim believes that he was just unspeakably lucky.
Would you like to live in such a place?
or perhaps you already live in a place with wild animals around?
Let us know in the comments.
The lynx is a creature of the Felidae family and is among the largest predator animals
in North America, Canada, Russia and Central Asia.
The animal is also threatened because of its valuable fur and so it appears on the red
list.
As a result of longstanding bans on hunting them and attempts by scientists to restore
their population, the number of lynx’s is once again growing around the world.
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