Full-Body Prowling Caracal Cat / African Lynx

Description

A nice looking Caracal Cat on the prowl on a 'dirt-like' base. This Caracal has very lifelike facial expression - one of the hall-marks of a quality cat mount. This is an older mount but in good condition.
Height : 19 inches
Width: 9 inches
Length : 37 inches
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The caracal is a graceful, slender, cat with a short, thick coat and characteristic long black-tufted ears. Its body color ranges from tawny-gray to reddish-brown, and sometimes entirely black "melanistic" animals may occur. They have distinctive narrow black stripes running from their eye to their nose and down the middle of their forehead, and their eyes are yellow-brown, with circular pupils instead of slits. The caracal's range is large, including a good part of Africa, to extend through the Arabian and Anatolian Peninsula, as well as southwestern and central Asia to Kazakhstan and central India. In Africa, the caracal is found everywhere except the central Sahara and the dense forest areas of equatorial West Africa. Caracals inhabit forests, woodlands, savannas, grasslands, semideserts, and scrub forests, but prefer dry areas with low rainfall and availability of cover. "To put the cat among the pigeons" is in reference to the caracal. It was once trained for hunting game birds for Persian and Indian royalty, due to its remarking leaping ability The caracal's impressive speed and agility make it a fearsome predator. (Animalia.bio)