The results of the present study show that catnip was effective in eliciting a clear “catnip response” i.e sniffing, rubbing, biting, licking. Catnip was shown to be a suitable olfactory enrichment  for increasing treatment-directed behaviour for these lynxes.

Conspecific and prey sounds were found to attract the lynxes by increasing their arousal. In addition, one sound treatment, the lynx call, provoked social behaviour.

The combination of these automated technologies with visual observation was powerful to evaluate the effect of enrichment on captive lynxes and to monitor their activity patterns and pacing. Sensory enrichment could also be used in the wild as lures to attract lynxes to BLE or HDX PIT tag logging stations and to wildlife cameras, as part of monitoring a lynx population.