Dancers set Riverdance world record in Dublin

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Irish dancers have set a world record in Dublin for the longest Riverdance line.

More than 2,000 people from 163 dance schools in 44 countries gathered on the banks of the River Liffey on Sunday.

The previous record of 652 people dancing in a continuous line was held by Nashville, Tennessee in the United States.

Dancers from as far away as Mexico, Uzbekistan and Japan took part.

Includes video. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-23398899

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1. Lynx

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-23395530

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2. Thanks - overlooked that.

Lynx.

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3. Climate change threatens Iberian lynx

The world's most endangered cat species could be extinct within the next 50 years, according to British researchers. The likeliest way to save the Iberian lynx, their study shows, is to base conservation efforts around climate change, and how it impacts prey.

"Climate change could further threaten the survival of the species, but its forecast effects are being neglected in recovery plans," the authors wrote in their study, published Monday in the journal Nature Climate Change. Most of the efforts, which include habitat management, reducing human interference in habitat and reintroducing species into their natural habitats, fail to account for declines in the population of prey. In the case of the Iberian lynx, population decline is related to a decline in their main prey, the European rabbit, according to the authors.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-205_162-57594853/climate-change-threatens-iberian-lynx/

(Please pardon my topic conflation )

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4. They're talking about reintroducing lynx into the UK