Each cub and scout group had its own sleeping tents.
An alternative hypothesis that malnutrition reduced the cubs' resistance and resilience to infection in 1995 must also be considered.
The lynx population of the study area consisted of three resident lynx couples, their offspring (three cubs as mean) and occasional wandering individuals.
Hence, it is possible that cubs could become infected via maternal transmission at parturition.
With severe infection cubs may simply die of the illness directly or through concurrent infections.
Is it then an exaptation for cub signalling?
These levels of egg output (maximum 21195 epg), as previously reported in free ranging large felid cubs, could be close to disease involvement.
There were 337 campers at the event, comprising 233 cubs, scouts, and venture scouts, and 104 adults.
