Servals
Ramses is one of our resident servals
• The serval is a lightly built cat, with long legs, large ears, and short tail. Its coat is light brown with dark spots, black-tipped tail, and black ears with distinctive white spots.
• Servals are the great jumpers, with the ability to leap high enough to catch birds right out of the air!
• Lives near water and in the reed beds and marshes of Algeria and Africa south of the Sahara, where it hunts by night, from the ground, and seeks rodents, reptiles, birds, and small deer.
• Weigh between 17 and 40 pounds and are 2-1/2 to 3 feet long excluding the tail.
• They live in all habitats, but prefer moist savanna habitats, where they use their huge ears to pinpoint the rustlings of their rodent prey.
• Their long legs give it the ability to pounce through high grass and give its surprised prey formidable blows with its front feet. Servals have their own predators including leopards, lions, jackals and man.
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