> From: "John Hughes" <nysalor_at_...>
>Barring an authoratitive answer from Trotsky or Greg, here's my speculation.
>The first alynx is female, and most of the other alynx of a particular
>hearth will be her kits and periphally, her mates. They'll spend a lot of
>time dozing by the hearth or in the rafters, but otherwise will come and go
>with the winds. Because alynxes in the lodge are seen as a sign of good
>fortune, a lot is done to accomodate them.
I'd expect male, unless most male alynxes tended to accompany herders and
hunters and hence were visitors to the hearth. This might make quite a nice
pattern - with dominant males perhaps prowling over several steads.
Thom