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- ↑ "Wild Felid Advocacy Center of Washington - Wild Cats in the News". Archived from the original on 5 April 2010. Retrieved 7 November 2009.
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- 1 2 "For the first time Iberian lynx embryos are collected and preserved". Forschungsverbund Berlin e.V. (FVB). phys.org. 23 March 2013.
- ↑ "Muere Saliega, la primera hembra de lince en dar a luz linces en cautividad" (in Spanish). DiarioSur. 9 June 2019. Retrieved 19 January 2021.