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Famous life · 10.1930

A lynx caught in a Võru garden fence

Võrus aia vahele jäänud ilves

Early one morning in October 1930 passers-by on Karja Street in Võru found a strange dead animal wedged between the stakes of a three-metre garden fence. Nobody could say what it was until the district forest inspector, who lived nearby, recognised a lynx, then the rarest predator in Estonian woods and one not seen in Võrumaa for years. It had tried to leap from the garden onto the street and got stuck; the stakes around it were gnawed. The same animal had probably lived in the town's gardens all summer: once it was spotted up a birch in the hospital garden, once chasing a dog in the park.

Open it on the map See the spot on the old maps and as it is today

Eesti keeles

Ühel 1930. aasta oktoobri varahommikul leidsid möödujad Võrus Karja tänaval kolmemeetrise püstaia teivaste vahelt surnud imeliku looma. Keegi ei teadnud, mis loom see on, kuni lähedal elanud metsarevident tundis ära ilvese – tollal meie metsade haruldaseima kiskja, keda Võrumaal polnud aastaid nähtud. Ilves oli üritanud aiast tänavale hüpata ja jäänud teivaste vahele kinni; teibad tema ümber olid läbi näritud. Arvatavasti oli sama loom elanud linna aedades terve suve: kord nähti teda keskhaigla aias kase otsas, kord pargis koera taga ajamas.

Map of the area around A lynx caught in a Võru garden fence
57.84840° N, 26.99140° E · Map: Maa- ja Ruumiamet

Source: Sakala, 14 October 1930, p. 1 (DIGAR) ↗

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