#servals

[antiqueanimals]

Serval Cat. Watercolor. 10" x 7½". By Maurice Wilson (1914–1987)

The Artist Magazine, 1941.

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ceramic pen rests from jet pens!!! look at them

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an impossible feeling

(print)

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(by yswildlifephotography)

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[existencebringsonlypluey]

my baby. now she needs a name. any ideas?

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10/28/2024

[arthistoryanimalia]

For #WorldServalDay:

1. Felis Serval, Plate 26 in Daniel Giraud Elliot's A Monograph of the Felidae, London, 1883 (print artist: Joseph Wolf)

2. The Serval, Plate VIII in Joseph Wolf's Zoological Sketches, Vol. 1, London, 1861 (print artists: Joseph Wolf & Joseph Smit)

[iris-polaris]

servals can jump 10 feet into the air from a standstill. what do they need to Do That for

[feather-bone]

Serval! They have the longest legs and biggest ears of any cat proportional to body size ! Leggy guys.

[ID: an illustration of a spotted serval cat jumping to the right. Its paw is outstretched toward a group of simple white butterflies on a mint green background. End.]

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A new post (˶‾᷄ ⁻̫ ‾᷅˵)!

Servalgender

Serval gender

A gender that relates to servals in some way

Pronoun ideas

ser/sers/serself

val/vals/valself

wild/wilds/wildself

wilder/wilderness/wildernessself

spot/spots/spotself

feral/ferals/feralself

[antiqueanimals]

The Serval, or Marapute

A Natural History of British and Foreign Quadrupeds. Written by James H. Fennell. 1843.

Internet Archive

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Conservationists are working to reintroduce the Scottish wildcat but face a massive numerical deficit and challenge. Lessons can be learned from its near demise, such as not waiting to conserve species until its nearly too late, the Scottish Rewilding Alliance’s Richard Bunting says.

Image by Charlie Marshall via Flickr (CC BY 2.0).

Small cats face big threats: Reasons to save these elusive endangered species

Researcher Philip Muruthi believes the serval (Leptailurus serval) could be an ambassador for African grasslands. With the ability to jump up to 1.5 meters (5 feet) in the air, it helps control small mammal populations in its habitat. “Serval cat ecotourism is another possibility,” Muruthi says. “They can be hard to spot, but when you see one in the wild, you never forget it."

Image courtesy of Nancy Lewis/African Wildlife Foundation.

Like their big cat cousins, small cat species can have strong cultural ties to human communities. Anthony Gerardo Pino Charaja of the Andean Cat Alliance explains that in countries like Peru, the Andean cat was long closely linked spiritually to the protection of livestock such as alpacas and llamas and was also designated as a deity of water.

Image courtesy of Andean Cat Alliance.

Clouded leopards prey upon a range of species including wild pigs and ungulates, helping control forest populations.

Image by Charlie Marshall via Flickr (CC BY 2.0).

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Not "Floppa," not "Sogga"...

Predators, not pets.

Learn more.

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(by pedro_lfa)

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