### animal | vertebrate | mammal | feline | cat:

Serval
* Most servals have ears
  - legs
  - major predators
  - necks
  - stripes
  - tails
* Some servals eat hares
  - rodents
* Some servals have coats
  - spots
  - interact with members
  - limit growth
* also chirp like a bird
  - require specialized facilities, diets and care and in many states are illegal to own
* are African grasslands cats
  - a small cat of Africa, resembling a small cheetah
* are also high-energy and curious cats
  - white and all black
  - believed to be responsible for sheep and poultry losses
  - common on the savannas where there is plenty of water
  - contortionists when they want to get out of a situation
  - crepuscular, meaning they hunt in the early morning or dusk
  - extremely active and agile
  - felines related to caracals,lions and cheetahs mostly
  - found in mid and southern regions of Africa
  - highly intelligent cats
  - mammals
  - mostly solitary, living in their territories until it is time to mate
  - native to a wide area throughout Africa
  - often solitary, with males and females coming together to breed
  - perhaps the best hunters in the cat world
  - poly-estrous, which means they are able to breed several times a year
  - pouncers
  - proficient hunters
  - small wild cats native to Africa
  - solitary animals
* are very active felines and love to jump
  - efficient hunters
  - intelligent and can cunningly get the better of their prey
  - well adapted cats
  - wildcats
* benefit humans by reducing rodent populations.
* can be dangerous with small children
  - purr and have a high pitched cry usually repeated seven or eight times in succession
* catch prey.
* demonstrate ability.
* eat a great variety of prey including rodents, birds, reptiles, frogs and insects.
* eat between one and six pounds of meat a day
  - three pounds of meat a day
* get along fine with other animals if introduced as infants
  - very neurotic when kept to long in smaller cages
* have a much wider range of vocalization than the domestic cat
  - really nice purr and can be extremely affectionate and playful
  - variety of vocalizations, including a high-pitched cry used to call other servals
  - very unique hunting style
  - excellent hearing and can even hear rodents burrowing underground
  - long, powerful legs that are important for jumping
  - relatively the largest ears and the longest legs in the cat family
  - the longest legs of any cat, relative to their body size
  - their own predators including leopards, lions, jackals and man
* includes brains
  - breasts
  - cell membranes
  - cells
  - chest cavities
  - chests
  - corpi
  - cytoplasm
  - faces
  - heads
  - nuclei
  - pads
  - paws
  - piluses
  - plasma membranes
  - rib cages
  - sections
  - skulls
  - sterna
  - vacuoles
* like to mark their territory.
* live in Africa
  - savannahs and grasslands in Africa, where everything is brown
  - only in south eastern and northern Africa, in savannahs and grasslands
* look very much like miniature cheetahs.
* love playing with toys
  - to hunt small rodents, birds, frogs, and the like
* make a variety of noises, or vocalizations.
* often hear their prey and react rather than reacting to the sight of their prey.
* pounce their prey with a vertical hop.
* primarily hunt alone.
* require minimal special care
  - special diets
* use techniques
  - the position of their ears to communicate with each other
* usually eat birds, fish and small rodents
  - require much more nutritionally than that
* venture into water.
* walk slowly through tall grass and listen for movement, if it is windy they wait.