Caracal
Caracal caracal / Caracal
- Habitat
- Dry forests, savannahs, steppes and semi-deserts
- Continent
- Afrika
- Food
- Small mammals, birds, but also small ungulates
- Gestation/breeding period
- 70 - 80 days
- Mode of life
- Solitary
- Class
- Mammals
- Order
- Raubtiere
Did you know that?
~ 1 m
size
~ 18 kg
weight
~ 20 years
age
How endangered are Caracals?
by IUCN (Red List of Threatened Species)
- Not evaluated
- Data deficient
-
Least concern Least concern - Near threatened
- Vulnerable
- Endangered
- Critically endangered
- Extinct in the wild
- Extinct
By the way
Dresden Zoo was the first zoo in the world to raise caracals in 1937.
Caracal at the zoo tour
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