CARACAL Species Spotlight - Big Cat TV

In this episode we look at a lesser cat called the Caracal. Their name is taken from a Turkish word that means "black ear." The Caracal is known best for its large black ears that it uses for its great hunting ability.
The Caracal roams the grasslands and open plains from Africa through the Middle East. While its numbers are holding in Africa, we see populations becoming extinct in India due to farming and the unrestricted manufacturing of charcoal from the wild weeds, especially in the Banni grasslands. By supporting animal conservation in these areas we can help save the land for the Caracals and other wildlife. Captive Caracals in the US suffer from people trying to keep them as pets, as well as trying to crossbreed them with domestic cats for the pet trade.

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[BigCatRescue]

@inaktie Scott has over ten years of experience working around these cats, I would disagree with your statement.

[maccrazyg5]

Of course these cats can be domesticated. We have done it before (domesticated cats, anyone?), and we can do it again. What you can't do is take one from the wild and expect it to forget how to eat birds or scratch the furniture.

[Solowizard]

I wonder what would the babies look like if someone crossed a cougar with a caracal?

[alurie16]

@YoGirlBabeProduction i wish i could have one too but how hard and cruel do u think it is to keep one as a pet?

[LughTube1]

It seems everything is VRY VRY SRS to the caracal.

[thekaizer666]

ME HUMAN. ME WANT PET CARACAL. ME NO LISTEN WHAT NOBODY SAY!

[Ariolserifi]

i  think a caracal can easly beat a terrier in a fight :D

[YoGirlBabeProduction]

I wish I can have a wild kitty :(

[BigCatRescue]

@Bluggardpirate We are trying to stop the abuse of these magnificent animals, generic tigers living in backyards and other facilities shouldn't be allowed. You're right there are way more tigers living miserable lives in captivity in private hands than there are tigers left in the wild, we don't think this is a good thing and are going to put an end to it.

[Bluggardpirate]

@BigCatRescue Experience doesn't need to involve contact with the cats, but it sure does help. If all you do is feed, clean up after, and watch the cats from behind the cage, then I'm going to take the word of someone who actually interacts with them over yours. Also, yet again you display your expert power over irony - so, we should be selectively bred, but cats should not? I think you would be a better fit in the 1930s-1940s when Eugenics was still a thing.

[Bluggardpirate]

@BigCatRescue Ironic that you talk about lives lost when you are supporting the abolishment of what even you call the largest population of tigers on earth - the privately owned tigers of the US.

[EGYPTPS3]

@BigCatRescue Yeah which is pretty weird but in africa they let them run around like an ordinary house cat its crazy :o