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Serval

noun
1.
Slender long-legged African wildcat having large untufted ears and tawny black-spotted coat.  Synonym: Felis serval.






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"Serval" Quotes from Famous Books



... passed the place where a leopard lay asleep up a tree, and saw a devil's whip of a ten-foot mamba snake—and the bite of that same is a sixty-second short cut to the grave—flee before them as if they, and not it, were death incarnate. Once a serval cat, all legs and ears and agility, stood in their path to listen to the funny chuckling, whistling noises, but fled when it saw the little, low ratel as if it ...
— The Way of the Wild • F. St. Mars

... marmot, spermophile, ibex, snowy vole, chamois. (Geikie's "Prehistoric Europe," p. 32.) (11) Geikie's "Prehistoric Europe," p. 28. (12) The following animals are given as southern species: Hippopotamus, African elephant, spotted hyena, striped hyena, serval, caffer cat, lion, leopard. In addition to the above there were also four or five species of elephants and three species of rhinoceros, which have since become extinct. (Geikie's "Prehistoric Europe," p. 32.) (13) It is scarcely ...
— The Prehistoric World - Vanished Races • E. A. Allen



Words linked to "Serval" :   genus Felis, wildcat, Felis, Felis serval



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