The Unstartled Steppes of Dream
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Found throughout central Africa, the serval (Leptailurus serval) likes to live in areas surrounding wetlands. It hunts in the reeds in these areas for rats and other rodents, aiding in pest control. Also a part of its diet are fish, birds, frogs, and large insects.
Surviving on fluids in its food and very little additional water, the blunt-clawed sand cat (Felis margarita) digs well for its main prey of gerbils and similar rodents, as well as an occasional lizard or snake. It also excavates a den for daytime shelter. The average litter of three grows quickly and may be independent in just six months.
Photograph © Johanna Leguerre
Geoffroy’s cat (Leopardus geoffroyi), which is sometimes called Geoffroy’s ocelot, prefers scrub and shrub to forest and open grassland. It hunts in the branches, on the ground, and in water, for frogs and fish as well as the usual small-cat fare of rodents, lizards, birds, and the brown hare. Now protected, this species was hunted for its yellow-brown to silver-gray fur after the trade in ocelot fur declined in the 1980s.
