Average Mass:
17 kg (37 lb)

Average Shoulder Height:
45 cm (18")

Rowland Ward:
19.05 cm (7 1/2")

SCI:
6 Points

Track: 51mm (2") x 51mm (2")

The caracal is widespread in Africa, being excluded only from true desert and from the western and central forest blocks (Nowell & Jackson, 1996).

Categorical-discrete (CD) distribution model

The species occurs in drier savanna and woodland regions, with a preference for the Acacia and Commiphora woodlands, thickets and Karoo scrubs. Absent only from rain forest and true desert, it is also found in the Saharan mountain ranges and rocky and hilly deserts (Nowell & Jackson, 1996; Estes, 1991; Skinner & Smithers, 1990; Osborn & Helmy, 1980; Kingdon, 1997).