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Falco, the Iberian lynx cub born in captivity earlier this year, has died.  Raised with his mother and siblings, the small cub suffered a seizure about a month ago.  No other episodes of seizures occurred until the morning of Sunday, October 4th.   Falco underwent emergency surgery but did not survive.  A necropsy was performed on Monday. Results are pending.

One of India’s main tiger parks, Panna Tiger Reserve, has admitted that it has no tigers left.

Just three years ago the park had at least 24 tigers, but park officials have been either unable or unwilling to protect the animals from poaching. Even more discouraging, Panna is now the second tiger reserve in India where numbers have dwindled to zero.

The size of critical lynx habitat will increase from 1,841 square miles across three states to 39,000 square miles in six.

The expansion is due to a policy reconsideration because of allegations that Deputy Assistant Interior Secretary Julie McDonald used her position to interfere with the way scientific findings were presented to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. She resigned in 2007.

Officials from the Arizona Game and Fish Department captured a wild, live jaguar in an area southwest of Tucson.

Images of a jaguar were captured by a remote automatic camera set up in Central Mexico’s Sierra Nanchititla Natural Reserve.

The three photographs, plus some fecal samples, are the only evidence of the animal’s existence in the area for the last century. The big cat was photographed at just over 6,000 feet.

Lead researcher and study author, Octavio Monroy Vilchis remarked upon the importance of the discovery: “The photographs provide information about new recording sites, and allow us to deduce that the area where the animal was observed may be a corridor connecting jaguar populations.” Mr. Monroy Vilchis is a research fellow at the Universidad Autonomoa del Estado de Mexico.