• The Eurasian lynx is the most northern of the cat species; in Scandinavia, it is found even north of the Arctic Circle.
• The Eurasian lynx may venture into villages and towns, but as zoologist Mikhail Krecmar states, there are no confirmed cases of it attacking humans.
• Once the Eurasian lynx was quite common throughout Europe, but by the middle of the 20th century it was exterminated in most countries of Central and Western Europe.

The Eurasian lynx occupies the Palearctic biogeographical region and is found in several distinct ecosystems including Scandinavian birch forests and meadows, the Ural mountain forests and taiga, the Scandinavian-Russian taiga, and the West Siberian taiga.