Caracal--Animal Project

What is a caracal?
Meet the highest jumping cat and mammal in the whole wide world…. Introducing, the caracal! These cool cats are wild, but they can jump 10 feet high! Find out about the mysterious life of caracals, also known as desert lynx.



Where a caracal lives
A caracal lives in arid areas as well as dry scrubland throughout Africa, except Sahara and tropical rain forest; eastern Mediterranean countries as well and coastal places of Arabic peninsula. Also parts of southwest Asia does the cool caracal live in. Caracals are predatory mammals.
A Caracals Habitat range, as shown below.

Food chain
Caracals are consumers, meaning that they have to eat plants (Otherwise known as producers) or animals. Some consumers only eat a certain kind of food, like in the case of the caracal, they eat meat only. This wildcat is opportunistic hunter of plump birds, such as guinea fowl, to the powerful kori bustard. For the mammals that they prey on, there’s the Impala, a certain kind of medium sized African antelope, the steenbok, which is a common small antelope that is a native to southern and eastern Africa, and the springbok, a medium sized Gazelle-Antelope found in southwestern Africa. Mainly, adult Caracals only have one predator, whereas Babies have 3. Out of these 3 predators, only one eats adults-Humanity. Wahhhhh! These are the only other predators of caracals-Raptors (Birds of prey) and wild dogs, Such as the African hunting dog, otherwise known as the cape wild dog. 
 
Physical adaptations
With the one of the rarest creature powers in the whole planet. (Well, every animal has a power! For example, the great white shark has a supreme bite, Humans have superior intelligence, and cheetahs have speed, so they are one of the fastest animals!) Caracals may not be the top predators of the savannah, but they don't have many predators, but they do have a lot of prey. Now to tell you great readers about their creature powers. First they have their amazing leap. Caracals leap amazingly high, they leap up to 10 feet high! Also, they have the amazing ability off swat birds right out of the air! Imagine if you were a bird, flying, and 9 feet high, only to be stunned by the paw of a caracal! Also, the hind legs are longer then the front legs, allowing them to run very fast, which is the reason Caracals are the fastest and most widespread small wildcat in Africa. The long black tufts on the tips of caracal ears emphasize facial expressions- Valuable for communication between Caracals. The skull of an awesome Caracal has a short, compact, muzzle and strong Jaw muscles give the Caracal deadly biting power. The feet of the caracal are big, so they are powerful enough to bat, knock, or hook a bird clean out of the air, as well as out of flight. Ears of a caracal are black on the outside and highly pale in the inside. A caracal’s coat is short but dense, and color varies through from tawny brown to reddish gray and even wine red, a through all caracals have white under parts. Dark form individuals are known.    

Behavioral adaptations

Like most wildcats, the caracal is solitary; through some live in a pair. It keeps a territory up to 26 square miles. These predatory mammals mark boundaries on tufts of grass, rocks, stones, and trunks of trees. In Africa, they are active during early morning and evening, though once the hottest time of the year comes; Caracals are generally nocturnal, meaning that they come out at night. In Asia, where the winter is mainly colder, so Caracals tend to hunt in the day. On finding a neighbor, rival, or mate, Caracals will sit down like normal cats do and turn their heads this way, then that way, to and fro. It then uses the ear tufts to signal feelings. In particularly tense moments, It puts them back, adding menace by baring I’ts gums and using a vocabulary of screams, spits, growls , and hisses.

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