Leptailurus serval constantinus (North African Serval)

[Bhagatí]

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Serval, Algeria, 1840-1842.

Picture Number:10423454

Credit:Science MuseumScience & Society Picture Library

Caption:
Engraving by Clerge after Vaillant, from 'Exploration Scientifique de l'Algerie: pendant les annees 1840, 1841, 1842' ('Scientific Exploration of Algeria: during the years 1840, 1841, 1842'), by A Guichenot, published in Paris in 1850.

In Collection of: Science & Society Picture Library

Subject(s) > Natural World > Natural History

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Exploration scientifique de l'Algérie

[another specialist]

Great to see an image of it.

[leopard81]

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[another specialist]

leopard81 said:

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[Peter]

In north Africa, relict populations may still be found in humid scrub and mixed woodlands of Morocco's Atlas Mountains (lambert 1966) and northern Tunesia and Algeria (Gouttenoire 1954, De Smet 1989). The last confirmed record from Algeria is of an animal killed by a French hunter in 1936 in Arzew (northwest coast), said to be the last in the area. There have been scattered reports of serval occurrence throughout northern Algeria during the 1980s, but zoologists have not been able to confirm them (De Smet 1989, K. de Smet in litt. 1993). Surviving animals are likely to have been isolated from sub-Saharan populations for at least 6,000-7,000 years (Swift 1975).

Nowell, K. and Jackson, P. (1996). Wild Cats. Status Survey and Conservation Action Plan. IUCN/SSC Cat Specialist Group, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.

[Peter]

Les données comportent 7 observations, toutes localisées, et non redondantes.
1) Répartition géographique ancienne et récente (fig. 94)
Le serval a été observé dans deux régions:
- Bas Draa Noun: l'espèce a déjà été signalée en 1947 dans le Jbel Zini, au sud du Draa, par des informateurs (Monteil 1951), la mention de l'espèce à Hassi Aggou se rapportant très probablement au lion (voir la partie concernant cette espèce); entre 1991 et 1996, 5 observations de félins de taille moyenne, tachetés, à queue mi-longue, et à oreilles longues, ont été faites par 4 observateurs, près de la côte atlantique, entre Foum Assaka et Ras Takoumba, ainsi que dans le bas Oued Amouissine (G. Dremond, com. pers.), près de l'Oued Assaka, un peu en amont de Bou Jeraïf (F. Aillaud, com. pers.), et, plus à l'intérieur des terres, vers Tiderguit, près du Bas Draa (O. Sittner, com. pers.), et sur le versant ,nord de l'Amzloug, au nord d'Assa (Eaux et Forêts, com. pers.); par ailleurs, des peaux relativement fraîches étaient en vente à la même période au marché de Guelmim, les marchands affirmant qu'elles étaient d'origine régionale, contrairement aux peaux de léopard également en vente, importées d'Afrique Noire
- Moyen Atlas méridional, où un animal a été observé en 1966 près de Bin El Ouidane (Lambert 1967)
Un félin tacheté de taille moyenne aurait été abattu dans la haute Tessaout (région d'Ichebakkene) en 1995 (R. Mousklou, com. pers.).
La distribution constatée est donc très lacunaire.

Google Translation:
The data include observations 7, all localized and non-redundant.
1) old and new geographical distribution (Fig. 94)
The serval has been observed in two regions:
- Draa Noun: the species has been reported in 1947 in the Jebel Zini, southern Draa by informants (Monteil 1951), the reference of the case to Hassi Aggou most likely related to the lion (see part for this species) between 1991 and 1996, 5 cases of medium-sized cats, spotted in mid-long tail, and long ears were made by four observers, near the Atlantic coast between Ras and Foum Assaka Takoumba and the bottom Oued Amouissine (G. Dremond, pers. comm.) near Oued Assaka, just upstream of Bou Jeraïf (F. Aillaud, pers. comm.), and more to inland towards Tiderguit near the Draa (O. Sittner, pers com..), and the slope, northern Amzloug, north of Assa (Forestry Commission, pers com..) Moreover, relatively cool skins were sold in the same period in Guelmim market, merchants saying they were of regional origin, unlike the leopard skins also available, imported from Africa Black
- Southern Middle Atlas, where an animal was found in 1966 near Bin El Ouidane (Lambert 1967)
A medium-sized spotted cat was shot in the upper Tessaout (region of Ichebakkene) in 1995 (R. Mousklou, pers. comm.).
The observed distribution is very patchy.

Cuzin, F. (2003). Les grands mammifères du Maroc méridional (Haut Atlas, Anti Atlas et Sahara): Distribution, Ecologie et Conservation. Ph.D. Thesis, Laboratoire de Biogéographie et Ecologie des Vertèbrés, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Université Montpellier II. Available online: geres-asso.org/Cuzin_PhD.pdf

[Peter]

A 2007 Mediterranean Mammal Assessment workshop classified servals north of the Sahara as regionally Critically Endangered (see details below).
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The isolated population along the Mediterranean coast, where it is known to occur only in Morocco (Cuzin 2003), possibly in Algeria (K. de Smet pers. comm.), and has been reintroduced (from East African stock) in Tunisia, is classified regionally as Critically Endangered (C2a(1)). There are fewer than 250 mature individuals, each subpopulation is smaller than 50 and completely isolated (from each other and from sub-Saharan African populations).
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North of the Sahara, there are recent records from Morocco (Cuzin 2003) and from northern Algeria (K. De Smet pers. comm.). They went extinct in Tunisia, but a population has been reintroduced into Feijda N.P. (K. De Smet, in Hunter and Bowland in press), with animals of East African stock (F. Cuzin pers. comm.).
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In North Africa, they are found from semi-desert to cork oak forest on the Mediterranean coast (De Smet 1989; Cuzin 2003).
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International legal commercial trade is generally declining (Nowell and Jackson 1996), although skins are still traded in large quantities in some countries, such as Senegal, Gambia and Benin (O. Burnham and I. Di Silvestre, in Hunter and Bowland in press), and exported to North Africa (K. de Smet and F. Cuzin pers. comm. 2007). Serval pelts seen in trade in Morocco could come from elsewhere, or could indicate the species continued existence in that country (Arce and Prunier 2006).

Breitenmoser-Wursten, C., Henschel, P. & Sogbohossou, E. (2008). Leptailurus serval. In: IUCN (2012). IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 12 May 2013. www.iucnredlist.org/details/full/11638/0

[Bhagatí]

Its not extinct.
It could be moved to Rediscovered Mammals.

Because, A serval observed in the Middle Atlas few days ago


A Serval a temporary lake in the Middle Atlas on February 22

Source: ecologie.ma/un-serval-observe-dans-le-moyen-atlas-il-y-a-quelques-jours/

Quote:
By dint of seeing the environment and biodiversity in Morocco are unloved and abused by most, you end up losing hope and begin to resign it all started smoked. And yet ...

This biodiversity experts and reports describe all kinds for decades as to the brink of total destruction, as delicate threatened all the evils and all the plagues over by posing as a kind of sick sentenced to mourir.elle is still there, but she is terminally ill.

Yes, they are still, these representatives of Moroccan wild animal species in all genres. As old ones who have witnessed the disappearance of their peers one by one to wonder if they were still on that last terre.ces individual animals that "subsist" are still quirks become one is surprised to see even on legs.

After they were once masters of the place, they became these intruders Thorn.

Doomed to be ignored when they are not persecuted, these remarkable animals are wild yet so precious ... precious ... and yet their no value is recognized. Alas.

These leopards, cheetahs, hyenas, zorilles, honey badgers, gazelles and so on, are the branch on which humans are sitting ... and they are in the process of sawing. Through ignorance, miscalculations, negligence, malice, for a few dirhams more.

Today more than ever, it is the last chance to do some things. How? I'll let you decide who you are. In 30 years, if we made the right choice and that puts all of this they will be still. Otherwise ... we keep in the memory, and regret.

All this to tell you that agents of water and forests, meadows observed running a Serval a temporary lake in the Middle Atlas on February 22.

Even a ghost to whom I wish a long life and many children. It is still necessary that humans leave them alone.

[Melanie]

Present in Morocco since 1985. So moved to rediscovered

ecologie.ma/le-serval/

[Bhagatí]

That's all right. I agree.