Aura, the Iberian lynx that left 900 offspring, has died The registration of the death of a feline animal was made two weeks ago.

A female Iberian lynx named Aura died at the age of 20 years and six months at the El Asebuj captive breeding center in Spain. The record of the cat’s death was made two weeks ago.

When Aura was caught in April 2002 at just one month old, she was one of 100 Iberian lynxes on the planet. Aura left 900 descendants, completing five generations of the Pyrenean lynx.

In newspaper statements El Pais, Antonio Rivas, coordinator of the center, explains that Aura “He was a magnificent beast, with a peculiar and nasty character, he did what he wanted, when he wanted. She was very easy to work with.”

The lynx was taken from the wild at the age of about three weeks and weighing less than a kilogram. In 2018, when it stopped breeding, Aura was put on display and became an ambassador for the species so visitors and students can see her behavior.

Iberian lynxes typically live around 15 years in the wild and rarely reach two decades in captivity.

The species has gone from “critically endangered” when there were fewer than 100 individuals in 2002 to now only being classified as “endangered”. “They are one step away from becoming a vulnerable species,” Rivas explained. country🇧🇷

Aura was euthanized by zookeepers in El Asebouh to avoid her suffering. After her death, she was transferred to the Center for Analysis and Diagnostics of Wild Fauna in Malaga.