Weight  : Male :19.8-39.7 lbs (9-18 kg) / Female : 19.8-28.7 lbs (9-13 kg)

Description

Serval have relatively the largest ears and the longest legs in the cat family. Their feet are actually elongated rather than their legs. With long necks, their heads are small and slim. Their pelage is tawny-gold in color and marked with round black spots. Ground colors vary from pale yellowish to-red. Generally the spots are large and they tend to merge into longitudinal stripes on the neck and back. Sometimes there are numerous small spots, giving a speckled appearance. The so-called servaline cat has very fine or almost indistinct spots, and is said to be smaller than the larger spotted forms. In general, the spots are more bold in the drier parts of the serval’s range. The tail of the serval is short, down to the hocks. It is tipped with black, is spotted, and ringed in the distal half. A serval’s ears are black with central white bars

Range-  The  North African serval is generally found in most parts of Africa excluding the arid desert regions to the north around the Sahara, parts of the western tip of Southern Africa

Habitat - Savannas, reed-beds, open woodlands and forests, normally near water.

Diet - They eat small hoofed mammals, birds, rodents, insects and reptiles.

Status -. There used to be 10,000 serval. Now  this species of serval is extinct in the region of Cape Province of South Africa

Reason for this status - using the fur for trading, and habitat destruction

What type of animal is it - Carnivorous