Male wild cat hunts at night - Cats Under the Serengeti Stars - BBC

Male Caracles are some of the most feared wild cats as they are one of the strongest species in the Serengeti. Watch this fascinating footage of a fully grown male hunting Antelope and Mongoose in the dead of night. Short animal video from BBC wildlife show, Cats Under Serengeti Stars.

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[LeopardFrogPilboxhat]

The reason they don't attack is because animals tend to resolve conflicts through threats a minor skirmishes instead of outright killing them. This is because even if they would outnumber the caracal they still have chance of getting really hurt.

Now the risks taken doing that each and every day add up so that individuals that don't participate in daily ambushes are actually more favored by natural selection. What they want is to get the most food while taking the fewest risks(foraging theory)

[LeopardFrogPilboxhat]

The wild cat is in the genus Felis like housecats. Felis is called the "small cats" as opposed to the "big cats"

The only thing is that the cougar (Felis concolor) is technically among the small cats.

Changing size is actually one of the easier things to do in evolution because populations of anything, deer , people has much variation in height. The genes that control size also are very susceptable to mutations that increase or decrease there expression.

So it's quite easy actually.

[BaRroWsDuDe]

Who is going around putting thumbs down on all BBCEarth videos...every single one of them has 1 thumbs down and at least 20 thumbs up.

[jmcmax11]

theres about 2 wild cats and 5 stray cats in my neigborhood

[robercapo]

Cougar now is "puma concolor", the other specie of this family is the jaguaroundi (puma yagouaroundi) from south america.

The taxonomic change was made based in genetic studios.

In this video we can see a caracal (caracal caracal)

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[jjbul]

cos they kill loads of cambodians

[GiantSnail]

okay, i keep on watching the cat's charge at 1:08 and i'm amazed at how fast they are.

and those bat-eared foxes remind me of little kids...if you use your imagination, it's almost like they're screaming MOM

[donUK69]

mannn this is the dumbest discussion ever, why do fools always have some shit to say about everything and anything!! myownservant you the dumbest clown iv seen in my whole life, you know why

peace

[stargatelolol]

thanks for the enlightenment :)

[stargatelolol]

that's supposed to be a small cat? It's almost as big as the antelope!

[sweetpea027]

Close to the end I heard the Lions in the back ground getting closer. They know some action is happening. I hope the small cat gets to eat his fill. Pretty ears like a Bobcat.

Thanks for the share Samjam.

~~~Ava~~~