Serval

Status: Least Concern

Servals (Leptailurus serval) are perhaps the best hunters in the cat world. Native to sub-Saharan Africa, the serval has a varied diet, eating birds, reptiles, frogs, crabs, large insects, and rodents. They use their large ears to locate rodents underground then use their long legs to grab them from their tunnels. They can also jump more than 9 feet high to take a bird right out of the air! The cat’s long and curved claws are used to hook fish and frogs out of the water as well.