This is the incredible karakat, a hybrid between an African lynx and a cat.

A cat weighing about 20 pounds He was recently caught in a garden in Marbella after escaping from his home in the same town, about 20 kilometers from where he was found. about one karakat, an animal with crossbreed between black eyebrowsa little abyssinian cat. Hence its name is an abbreviation of caracal and cat (English cat).

Karakat is therefore a lynx because there is a hybrid between wild cat living in the African savanna (caracal or African lynx), but also house cat great grace, abyssinian.

graceful and cunning

The mother of the karakat is an Abyssinian cat, from which she inherited her grace and poise, grace. For her part, she inherits intelligence and cunning from her parent, also known as the African lynx.

Karakats are relatively young animals. The first meeting between A Caracal and a domestic cat were in 1998in a Moscow zoo cross between two catsgave birth to a hybrid pup that was considered a bastard and did not have the colors of the paternal shell. slain.

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more docile

German magazine’Der Zoologische GartenIn volume 68, the birth of this new breed, which many fell in love with and is currently one of the most requested hybrid felines in Russia and the United States, is published, where it is believed that there are more karakats in the world because they are easy to breed and very intelligent animals. Also they are more easy to tame than wild caracals.

However, the passage through the Moscow zoo was an accident, because caracals cats as prey and do not eat animals to mate, so karakats must be artificially bredwith all the problems it brings.

Size, weight and fur

The karakat is smaller than the wild caracal, but considerably larger than the Abyssinian cat. It can weigh around 13-14kg and can be around 36cm high and 140cm long including its tail.

When mixed with the Abyssinian, the hair color is very similar to the caracal: dark or brown, tan and coppery-orange feathers with black stripes or bands, white chest and belly.

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You can also see these expressions in caracat: black locks at its tip long ears (called tufts in the caracal), a black nose, large eyes, a wild look, and a strong yet stylized and aesthetic body.

Roar

First-generation hybrids, that is, those that come directly from a caracat and an abyssinian hybrid, tend to be wilder and more active than the second or third generation when the caracat has already been crossed with the caracat. And with each pass, they more domesticated (they are more docile) and compassionate.

As for the sound they make, the higher percentage of caracals they have, the more they roar instead of the ordinary meow. or a mix between screaming and roaring.

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