In June, New Mexico State University graduate student William Grooms was using motion-sensing cameras to investigate wildlife in Carson National Forest in northern New Mexico. And when he looked through his first images, he spotted something flabbergasting. His cameras had captured a series of photographs of a Canada lynx (Lynx canadensis)—a wild cat that hasn’t been documented in the state for around 25 years. But Grooms had to make sure it wasn’t actually a bobcat (Lynx rufus), which is a similar-looking species. Cameras picked up the photograph of the rare…
