An Ontario man who shot a viral video of two lynx shrieking in each other91Ƶs faces says he91Ƶs no stranger to the animals, but was shocked by what he saw.
91ƵI knew right away it was going to be a rare, special capture,91Ƶ said Ed Trist, who lives off the grid in the northern reaches of Ontario.
Lynx are normally skittish, he noted, so he was surprised that the creatures stuck around after he, his girlfriend and his 11-year-old daughter came across them while driving their ATV down a logging road on Friday evening.
The videos 91Ƶ one shot by Trist, one by his girlfriend 91Ƶ show two lynx sitting face-to-face, shrieking, their foreheads nearly touching.
In a phone interview on Tuesday, Trist likened the sound to that of children yelling.
At one point in the video, one of the cats takes a swipe at the other, but neither backs down.
91ƵThis is so frickin91Ƶ cool,91Ƶ Trist can be heard saying in the video. 91ƵThis is so cool! Who runs into this?91Ƶ
Neither Trist nor his daughter was scared, he said, noting that they were both 91Ƶused to it.91Ƶ
91ƵI see them often, but just brief glimpses,91Ƶ he said.
Trist said the cats were still at it when he left after about 10 minutes of watching, so he doesn91Ƶt know which one came out on top in the non-violent faceoff.
By early Tuesday, the videos had together amassed more than 12 million views and drawn attention from around the world.
Trist said he91Ƶs been fielding calls from Australia, Germany and the U.K.
The Canadian Press
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