1st lynx and it's tagged

The tags are small tags in both ears that say corplus on them. The only info I've found about them is an old trapperman post by wolverine bait. Does anyone have any additional info about the tags or how to find out where it came from?

apparently some people were curious about the sensitivity of the lynx's ears and are doing studies on them. They don't have much on them on the web but that is what I can find by searching it up on the web. You may need to reach out to multiple science entities to find out more about it.

I would like to point out that I'm in Alaska .

Congrats! I'd check with Alaska Fish and Game and see if they have any info on the tags. If that dont pan out then I'd start reaching out to Fish and Game in Cananda.

What HFT said.

Not sure what part of the state you're in but here is one option......

https://www.northwestboreal.org/lynx.html

There is also an Anchorage lynx project going on but they don't tag both ears and the tags have numbers.

That’s cool. A few thousand lynx later and I’ve yet to see a tagged one. Got them with missing ears and blind in one eye a few times but never a tagged one

Picture!

I think Chickenminer had a post about a Lynx tagging program. I think I remember a bunch of them Lynx ending up in Canada south east of me.

I will post pics but someone needs to coach me how.

When you look at the reply section click on the square with 2 little houses. when you put your curser over it it should say upload inline images. from there it will take you to another screen just follow the directions.

ADFG is your friend in this case. Even if they did not do the tagging, they will be aware of who is tagging cats.

I brought them a tag and collar from a wolf one year. It was not their tag/collar, but after a few days they determined that the wolf had been tagged by the Canadian government in the NWT! It was pretty cool to know how far that wolf had come just to "visit Alaska" and eat some of our game!

Pete

The old “he went to visit and never came back” story

I have never harvested an animal with a tag or collar but sure enjoy hearing where all they have traveled when others harvest them and find the info out. Friend shot a collared grizzly near Eureka one spring and fish and game shared all the info they had including pictures they took of it in its den that winter.

Here are the tags

I think Corplus is just the manufacturer of the tags. Could there be chips in the tags ??

There is a band on the orange one that may contain data I guess. Other than that they are all plastic.

two tags are sometimes used with camera traps to identify individuals, or if there is a fear of one being rejected. they should have a serial number. I would remove them carefully so the number is still readable. either drill through button, or cut them at the hinge.

Big Finn, where are you at in the U P?

I'm here in alaska I moved from Skandia near Marquette mi

Nice to know another Yooper eh. I am from Lake Linden and Houghton. Where are at in Alaska? There is also a lynx tracking program goin on in the Tetlin Flats.

was there a tatoo in the gum?

No tattoos. I was in touch with someone from tetlin he was passing on the pictures to the people that do the tagging there. He said they didn't think it was their tags and said it may be from kluane np in the yukon

It's Biden's Open Border policy at work again, Ryan.....!

Pete

I caught 2 different collared wolves. One was a male that had been sterilized and released a couple days prior about 30 air miles from where we snared it. The second wolf was a collar that Gordon Haber used and adf&g knew about his use and history of the pack.

It was the alpha she was white and the pack was all black. She would travel away from the pack. She was trapped walking alone on our sno go trail in a p post set and the pack was on a game trail at a creek that out trail was 1/2 mile away that in the valley we trapped. The collar provided the denning location and the biologist at adf&g was able to give me all that information. That winter we reduced the black wolf population. Up until I quit I caught black wolves!



Sorry for the poor photo but this is the Alpha.



Caught later that winter

You Alaska guys are lucky. I killed a collared wolf here in Idaho and I wanted to know where and when it was collared, etc. F&G told me to pound sand, well more politely, but not a lot more polite. They literally told me they would give me no information on the wolf. They certainly had no hesitation to tell me when brought it in to get the hide checked and mentioned it was wearing a collar, that they weren't tagging the hide until I gave them the collar!

Oh Snap: why was the male wolf sterilized? So it could hopefully dummy breed the alpha female and thus reduce the wolf population that way?

Ole Gordy!

adfg

Wolves
Wolf fertility control and translocations are scheduled for 4 consecutive winters (1997-1998,
1998-1999, 1999-2000, and 2000-2001) and will involve sterilizing adult pairs and
translocating the remaining wolves in no more than 15 packs.
Using radiotelemetry, we will monitor distribution and numbers of wolves in treated and
several adjacent untreated packs during this study. Our hypothesis is that sterilization will not
reduce the chance of maintaining a territory or increase the probability of dispersal, as
previously observed in smaller study samples by Mech et al. ( 1996) in Minnesota and RD
Hayes (pers commun) in the Yukon. To ensure that sterilization does not interfere with
gonadal cycling, males will be vasectomized by surgical techniques (Pineda and Hepler 1981 ).
Females will be tubally ligated. A qualified veterinary surgeon will conduct the surgical
sterilizations.
We will monitor survival rates and homing abilities of translocated wolves to determine if
young, translocated wolves regularly succumb near release sites, return to or attempt to return
to capture sites, or disperse widely from release .sites (Fritts et al. 1985). Fritts et al. (1985)
concluded that survival of translocated wolves was comparable to that of other wolves and
that pup wolves remained at release sites longer and had poorly developed homing abilities
compared to those of adults. We will test these hypotheses using similar techniques. Wolf
translocation and moving procedures will follow those of ritts et al. ( 1984) in Minnesota with
the following exceptions: 1) most wolves will be moved from October through June, but no
wolves <5 months old will be moved, and 2) all wolves will be moved at least 100 miles
( 160 km) because of homing tendencies. Release sites will have prey densities greater than or
equal to prey densities in the Fortymile range.
We will estimate wolf harvest rates in the respective annual ranges of the Fortymile caribou
herd to monitor effects of harvests, translocations, and sterilizations on wolf numbers.

Sterilization was tried but I don’t know if it continued. It didn’t help with the wolf we caught. He only lasted a couple days after release.

I might want to kill myself as well if someone stole my balls.

-TJ

From this year..

[quote=Top Jimmy

I might want to kill myself as well if someone stole my balls.

-TJ[/quote]

There ya go....!

Pete

Colorate lynx,s traped in alberta ca.3000 mile,s from home.

Would that ( Colorado lynx trapped in Alberta Ca. returned home after 3000 mile return trip) be the way it is written ?

Trailblazer are those tags phosphoresence so trail cameras can pick them up with a flash?

I heard back from the folks from Tetlin nwr and after some digging he said the cat came from Kluane lake NP. That's 450 miles on a straight line. I'm going to contact them to see if there is any additional info.

Wow. Pretty cool.

Good stuff. Let us know if you find out more

Dang that was a hike for him for sure!!

It's confirmed this cat came from Kluane lake in Canada. It was one of 6 lynx that were implanted with a device that monitors heart beat and internal temperature. I didn't find it but there was a rub and old wound near the intestines that may have been it. They called it Tony the tiger because of its orange and black tags. The tags were used to identify the animal with camera traps. He was last photographed in August of 2020 in the Kluane lake area. So he traveled all the way to Rainy pass in little over a year. He was loaded with fat and seemed to be in very good shape.

Wow! That is awesome!

That looks like a nice one ! Good color

The lynx migration was here about a month ago to your east. Not the first lynx migration we have had through here. First time lynx season was closed so I had to wait till they were gone to trap them.

That is really quite a trek ! He was almost here !

Male/female ?? Maybe I missed it.

Be careful what you wish for. If you don't have many hares, they substitute marten.

Thats a heck of a trek! Its neat to hear how far they move and what routes they take. Seems like a number of those Kluane lake lynx moved to Alaska. Wonder how many Alaskan lynx move to Canada?

The lynx was a male. The guy at Tetlin said they have had there tags show up on the north slope and Great slave lake.

Don't think they can move that direction without a covid pass, so not probably not many.

LMAO!!

Well if they are tagged they can get scanned at the boarder so i'm sure it would be a pass. Besides the vets probably have double vaxed them when caught and tagged.
I'm looking for a smiley face with a mask, so the link would be wearing one to pass into Canada.

Bidens open boarder policy