| Biological classification: |
- kingdom: Animalia
- - phylum: Chordata
- -- class: Mammalia
- --- order: Carnivora
- ---- family: Felidae
- ----- species: Caracal caracal
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| Characteristics: | carnivore; the coat is reddish-brown to brick-red, the belly and chest are white; this cat has remarkably strong hind legs and a short tail; the ears are large and pointed with large tufts of black hair, the back of the ear is black; they have black marks around the eyes and at the base of the whiskers; |
| Countries: |
- BW
- Botswana
- MZ
- Mozambique
- NA
- Namibia
- ZA
- South Africa
- ZW
- Zimbabwe
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| Ecoregions: |
- AT0128
- Southern Zanzibar-Inhambane coastal forest mosaic
- AT0702
- Angolan Mopane woodlands
- AT0709
- Kalahari Acacia-Baikiaea woodlands
- AT0717
- Southern Africa bushveld
- AT0719
- Southern Miombo woodlands
- AT0725
- Zambezian and Mopane woodlands
- AT1009
- Highveld grasslands
- AT1202
- Lowland fynbos and renosterveld
- AT1203
- Montane fynbos and renosterveld
- AT1309
- Kalahari xeric savanna
- AT1314
- Nama Karoo
- AT1316
- Namibian savanna woodlands
- AT1322
- Succulent Karoo
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| References: | Cillié 1997: 116 |
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