Man (79) arrested for offering rare cat's head

madrid - The Spanish police arrested a man in Valencia who offered the head of an Iberian lynx for sale on the internet. The Iberian lynx is one of the rarest felines in the world. According to the Spanish news agency Europa Press, the 79-year-old man asked 400 euros for the head.

It is unclear how the man had come to the head of the lynx. He also had a gun for which he had no license. It is not known whether he used this weapon to shoot the Iberian lynx.

Until recently the Iberian lynx only existed in some remote areas in southern Spain. He probably disappeared from Portugal, but he recently returned there, according to the website of the World Wildlife Fund. The total number of animals was estimated at 475 last February.