Detail of a predator's eye

Photo By/Credit

Hupp, Lisa/USFWS

Date Shot/Created
03/22/2019
Media Usage Rights/License
Public Domain
Image
Detail of a predator's eye. The vertical slit shape is an adaptation for many small ambush hunters and allows them to better track prey during a range of light at dusk and dawn when they are most active. Lynx Project At Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge.
Subject tags
Work of the Service
Wildlife refuges
Tracks and tracking
Monitoring
Mammals
Endangered and/or Threatened species
Biologists (USFWS)