Do servals have what it takes to take out adult sheep?!!
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 Dino |
Can SERVALS take adult sheep? |
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Posts: 846 05/14/08 11:54:43 Uber User |
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Wessie68 |
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Posts: 668 05/14/08 22:10:18 Uber User |
lamb yes....
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Jerven25 |
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Posts: 724 05/15/08 10:24:22 Uber User |
I doubt it. Yes to lambs, but nit adults.
90% of the Servals diet consists of prey weighing less then 200grams. It is a specialized small mammel catcher. It has been observed that a Serval killed a 7kg thompson gazelle fawn though. Interestingly in used the same technique to kill the gazelle as he does when he killed small rodents. An adult sheep is too heavy, and too large to kill for a serval., so I doubt it. |
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221extra |
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Posts: 786 05/15/08 16:05:47 |
Servals don't work together
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Dino |
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Posts: 846 05/16/08 02:46:12 Uber User |
221extra wrote: who said they did?
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221extra |
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Posts: 786 05/16/08 14:24:54 |
You said can servals take a adult sheep.
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Dino |
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Posts: 846 05/17/08 11:53:24 Uber User |
221extra wrote: dude your an idiot, I know they don't work as a group dam it, I said can they take down sheep
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221extra |
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Posts: 786 05/17/08 12:36:29 |
Calmdown man I was just joking around anyways the answer is no even though sheep are the most defensless animals on this planet.
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big snauzer |
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Posts: 318 05/18/08 12:47:12 New User II |
221ekstra and Dino - servals do not hunt in groups. Lions and hyeans are animals that hunt in groups. Servals are solitary animals. Maybe you have seen a group of young lions - they have markings that very vaguely could resemble the spots of a serval. |
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221extra |
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Posts: 786 05/18/08 13:04:30 |
Snuazer I'm well aware that servals are lone hunters it was just a joke.
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Oldeasymoney |
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Posts: 2491 05/19/08 15:41:55 Uber User |
Eurasian lynx routinely take adult sheep,and NA bobcats occasionally,and coyotes often.A domestic sheep is slow,dumb,and pretty helpless when it comes to
defending itself from predators.That is why shepherds have dogs and llamas to guard their flocks.The question is,are there sheep in serval country?Not sure of
this,but believe that sheep are not usually kept by Native Africans because the terrain is not suitable for them.If sheep and serval are found together,this
medium sized cat could certainly take them if it chose to do so.
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