A picnic treat: Camouflaged Cape caracal spotted in Tokai Forest

is a medium-sized rufous-fawn cat with distinctive tufted black ears, a creamy underbelly with faded orange spots, and long legs. Its face has exquisite markings and light green to orange eyes.

from the Urban Caracal Project suggests that the low frequency of caracal sightings may be due to wildlife populations being increasingly fragmented by urbanisation. ‘We estimated there to be only approximately 28 breeding caracals in the Cape Peninsula, and in comparison to the other study areas, high levels of inbreeding consistent with a small, isolated population.’

‘We found that approximately only one breeding migrant enters the population every generation and that if migration rates remain the same in the future, the population is expected to decline,’ the Urban Caracal Project added.

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