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Lynx are normally skittish, he noted, so he was surprised that the creatures stuck around after he, his girlfriend and his 11-year-old daughter came across them while driving their ATV down a logging road on Friday evening.

The videos B次元官网网址� one shot by Trist, one by his girlfriend B次元官网网址� show two lynx sitting face-to-face, shrieking, their foreheads nearly touching.

In a phone interview on Tuesday, Trist likened the sound to that of children yelling.

At one point in the video, one of the cats takes a swipe at the other, but neither backs down.

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Trist said the cats were still at it when he left after about 10 minutes of watching, so he doesnB次元官网网址檛 know which one came out on top in the non-violent faceoff.

By early Tuesday, the videos had together amassed more than 12 million views and drawn attention from around the world.

Trist said heB次元官网网址檚 been fielding calls from Australia, Germany and the U.K.

The Canadian Press

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