TORONTO – A northern Ontario woman experienced the encounter of a lifetime when she ended up taking a brief walk inches behind a wild lynx.
In a viral video posted on YouTube and Facebook Tuesday, Beth-Ann Colebourne claims she departed her Terrace Bay salon Tuesday evening and found a lynx casually sitting outside the building
The wild cat can be seen at Simcoe Plaza near the Terrace Bay Post Office sign before, presumably, Colebourne’s presence causes it to stop lounging around and continue its stroll around the tiny town on the northern shore of Lake Superior.
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“I was shaking that’s how stupid excited I was to be so insanely close to it,” Colebourne said in a Facebook comment.
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She had every reason to be excited. Sightings of Canadian lynx are rare – especially in daylight. The silver-brown felines tend to prefer the darkness of night.
As of this writing, the video has been viewed approximately 150,000 times on YouTube and Facebook combined.
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