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Geertsema, A.
The Servals of Gorigor
1991 Natural History: 52-61
On and off during a four-and-a-half-year period beginning in the late seventies, I lived and worked in the Ngorongoro - a vast caldera with walls up to 2,000 feet high and a floor ten miles across. Watered by springs and streams, its grasslands sustain a great variety of wildlife, including the often overlooked, secretive serval. Because of its shyness, solitary existence, and mostly nocturnal habits, we know very little about the African serval (or, for that matter, two other small African cats, the caracal and the wildcat). Yet servals live throughout the African continent, except in areas where they have been wiped out by hunting and human population pressures. They are common in well-watered habitats of the grass savannas; along river reedbeds, swamps, and the edge of forests, in brush and open woodlands; in bamboo thickets; and even on high-altitude moorlands.
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