A Wild Canadian Lynx And A Cameraman Develop An Amazing Relationship | Wild Canadian Year

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A Wild Canadian Lynx And A Cameraman Develop An Amazing Relationship | Wild Canadian Year

[tyskbulle]

We take these shots for granted, that is a lot of hard work for a few seconds.

[XBullittX]

The lynx literally used the cameraman as a scarecrow to corner the rabbit between it and the cameraman, it's bloody brilliant.

[ShelaRizky]

max is friendly because he is canadian

[robertwhitten]

Camera man: "Best day of my life"
Rabbit: "F" YOU

[kingfredo]

The lynx basically said. "You recording? Good, watch this."

[psydoof]

They hired a cameraman to film the cameraman

[brassen]

Lynx news: "Lost human takes 76 days to learn how to participate in a hunt, local cat says"

[Gaius__]

80 days in the freezing cold for 20 seconds of footage. And he called it the best day of his life.
That's dedication.

[kirani]

Imagine if Sam was also camera/human shy, and the crew had to earn his trust to finally get close enough to film him filming the elusive cat.

[Willbo-ftoy]

I wonder if Max was like "this dude is gonna STARVE if I don't show him how to hunt. Ok so the first lesson with hunting is"

[MrCable]

quite clever that the cat circled the hare, to put the hare between him and the camera man, making the hare turn.

[YanoshSquarepants]

What a legend. Imagine spending 76 days, 2 and a half months out in those kinds of conditions, All for one awesome camera shot.
Sam Ellis is a true artist of his craft.
Mind-blowing footage. 12/10

[TheRealNewWhirledOrder]

Sam is finally starting to trust the cameraman who's been following and filming him while he's been following a lynx around and filming it.

[graceandglamor]

“Their unique link allows a window into wild Canadian lynx behavior.”

Lynx: *acts like a house cat*

[ultromegus]

This is the best documentary, a cameraman recording lynx and the cameraman gets recorded by another cameraman and just maybe.... That other cameraman get recorded by Lynx.

[brodygoodall]

Is no one gonna acknowledge he built a relationship with this cat for him to likely just disappear after like that lynx was probably so confused the next day when his human who helped him hunt wasn’t back
Edit: this was originally supposed to be a joke but also lightly serious and the amount of people tryna hit me with facts that I A already know or B just makes y’all sound pressed like chill tf out 😂

[saftsuse]

I grew up in the woods, and we had the elusive lynx around us my whole upbringing. No-one ever saw it, we'd sometimes see tracks in the snow when out walking deep in the woods, but that's it.

Then in my 20s I got two kittens. And lynx tracks in the snow started to appear around my house on a daily basis. I usually had a window open for my kittens to get in and out, so I was kinda worried. One day I got home, the two kittens had brought a big bird inside and feathers were littered all across the room. I assumed they found a dead bird, it was too big for them to catch, probably a juvenile blackbird(not yet fully black). Then, I noticed the kittens, who were about 6-7 months old, started leaving mice outside. And every morning the mice would be gone, and new lynx tracks would be seen around the place they would leave the mice. In the end I saw the lynx crossing the fields, and I took my cats and lifted them up so they'd get a look. It's hard to know what a cat is thinking, but they looked very comfortable and familiar with the lynx. It's the first time I ever saw a real lynx, and it didn't look too bothered about me being there at all.

Maybe the lynx had lost her own kittens and was thus attracted to my kittens? They started mutually feeding each other? It's one of the most precious and weirdest experiences of my life, lynx has been one of my favourite animals since I was a kid.

[Whyistomatoafruit]

Lynx be like “Ok dude, if you gonna follow me around, ima at least make you useful.”

[sunshinemishasmommy]

I give alot of respect to these cameramen who go out into the wild to record this amazing footage of all kinds of animals..I think nature documentaries are an important conservation tool, they help people to appreciate animals and nature and in turn make people care about conserving these wild places..well done camerapeople well done 😊

[kylas]

He cracked me up when he was loudly crunching thru snow and had the nerve to turn around go like this 🤫 to the camera 😂😂