Ed Trist lives off-grid in the Ontario bush, about 17 kilometres from the closest town, but a video he posted on Facebook has thrust him into a global spotlight. Trist had been planning to catch a few minnows for fishing but instead caught a rare sighting of two lynx squaring off and wailing at one another.
"It was really bizarre," he said, adding that it's not unusual to see a lynx around the area, but the typically reclusive cat will usually be gone in a flash. You just get a quick glimpse of them and they're outta there. Two of them, together, headbutting each other and squaring off? It's extremely rare."
Trist, his girlfriend Nicole Lewis and his daughter were in an off-road vehicle, heading down a logging road in Avery Lake, 150 kilometres directly east of Kenora, when they came across the cats. They stopped about nine metres from the lynx and watched for about 10 minutes, "and they didn't even care that we were there," Trist said. When the trio decided to keep going, they drove right past the cats, who remained focused on one another.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/lynx-video-avery-lake-kenora-1.4671909
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