An Ontario man who shot a viral video of two lynx shrieking in each other害羞草研究所檚 faces says he害羞草研究所檚 no stranger to the animals, but was shocked by what he saw.

害羞草研究所淚 knew right away it was going to be a rare, special capture,害羞草研究所� said Ed Trist, who lives off the grid in the northern reaches of Ontario.

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 害羞草研究所� one shot by Trist, one by his girlfriend 害羞草研究所� 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.

害羞草研究所淭his is so frickin害羞草研究所� cool,害羞草研究所� Trist can be heard saying in the video. 害羞草研究所淭his is so cool! Who runs into this?害羞草研究所�

Neither Trist nor his daughter was scared, he said, noting that they were both 害羞草研究所渦sed to it.害羞草研究所�

害羞草研究所淚 see them often, but just brief glimpses,害羞草研究所� he said.

Trist said the cats were still at it when he left after about 10 minutes of watching, so he doesn害羞草研究所檛 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 he害羞草研究所檚 been fielding calls from Australia, Germany and the U.K.

The Canadian Press

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