Why is serval a typical opportunist ?

The serval, a medium-sized cat native to Africa, is the only member of the genus Serval. The serval's main habitat is the African savannah, sometimes in the mountains, and it is also adapted to live in the reeds at the edge of the wetlands. They climb trees, but rarely do.

Servals are widely distributed in sub-Saharan Africa, except in the Sahara Desert and the tropical rainforests of central Africa, where they are scarce in the sub-Saharan Arctic. They usually feed on large insects such as rodents, birds, fish, frogs and locusts at dusk. Servals help farmers hunt locusts and rodents and rarely hunt livestock.

The serval's tail is about forty centimeters long, not counting the tail, the body length is nearly one meter, the shoulder height is about sixty centimeters from the ground when standing on all fours, and the weight is about 13 to 20 kilograms, it is a large cat, much larger than the ordinary domestic cat, slightly smaller than the cheetah. Because it has black patches and lines on its body, it is also easy to be mistaken for a cheetah. In fact, servals and cheetahs can be easily distinguished from each other in terms of appearance, mainly looking at two points:

One is the tail, the tail of the serval is significantly shorter than that of the cheetah; The second is the ears, the serval has a pair of large, vertical ears, while the cheetah has small and round ears.

Servals have a high success rate of nearly 50 percent, compared to only 10 percent for the average cat. At the same time, they have amazing jumping ability, can hit a three-meter-high target, can climb trees to catch birds, can wade to fish, and can also dig holes to catch mice, they are decathlon "athletes". According to some scholars, the servals living in the area of the Ngorongoro Crater in Tanzania kill and eat an average of 6,000 prey per year, including about 4,000 rodents, 200 snakes and 100 birds.

Servals are most active from dusk to dawn and rest at noon or occasionally at night. Sometimes they forage during the day, especially when it is cloudy and cold, and they are less active during the dry season. Servals are best at hiding behind tall grass, with a slender neck and limbs that allow it to stalk its prey by raising its head high in tall grass.

Once spotting its prey, the serval can jump four meters away and one meter high and grab the prey with its front paws. They generally communicate with screams, but also with roars and purrs.

Because they don't want to hunt hard, they only use very little force to get the most out of it.

They are all for their own benefit, and they will only do what they can do.

Because it is premised on its own interests, he only thinks about himself.

Because servals only do what they think they can do.

Because it only wants to spend very little effort to catch big prey

Just because this animal chooses more adventurous opportunities when hunting.

It doesn't have any special skills, it can only rely on chance.

Because servals only do what is beneficial to themselves.

Because he's smart and will grab what he thinks he can grasp.