The caracal
PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS
The caracal is also known under the name of Persian lynx or of African lynx. It has long legs, a slim body and a short tail. Its posterior legs are longer than the former ones. Its peeling is brown-russet-red but becomes white on its belly and its throat.
Its ears are surmounted by a long brush of black hairs. Besides Caracal means "ear black" in Turkish.
In spite of a strong resemblance to the other lynxes, the caracal is regarded today as a group except for. It is not yet well placed in the order of felidae but it would approach more of the serval.
DISTRIBUTION
He lives in the dry wooded hills of savanna, in the bush with acacias, on the steppe arid hills and the dry mountains. One meets it neither in the true deserts, nor in the dense tropical forests.
It thus has conquered septentrional, central and southernmost Africa, part of the Middle East, Saudi Arabia, of the Soviet Central Asia, Afghanistan and Pakistan until the North-West, and in the center of India.
BEHAVIOR AND SOCIAL LIFE
The caracal is into large night party but is sometimes seen the day, in particular in the parts more fraiche of its surface. It is a good jumper and a very skilful hunter. Mainly terrestrial the caracal is a hunter out of commun run. It watches for its prey then the capture of a great fast jump.
It is in general solitary sometimes but one can find it in couple or group. Like all felid which is respected, it does not accept an intruder on his territory. To delimit it urinates on the rocks and the trees in order to leave its olfactive marks there.
Of apprehensive nature, he prefers to run away himself in the trees to escape the combat. On the other hand if it is found driven back, it can become very dangerous even for the human ones.
