AND PERSONALITY 



The Smaller Cats 



The leopard is a stealthy and cunning hunter, usually 

 seeking his prey alone at night. A careful stalk, a lightning 

 rush and spring are the leopard's method of attack. The 

 animals that he prefers are the monkey and baboon, the 

 native's dog, and the smaller antelopes and ostrich chicks. 

 If animals are too large for the leopard to kill, he takes 

 their young. 



Next in size to the leopard in Africa is the cheetah, which, 

 unlike the leopard, is geared for a swift pursuit. For a 

 distance of 200 yards the cheetah can outrun the ostrich or 

 the swiftest mammal. The cheetah is taller than the leopard. 

 In form it resembles the dog family rather than the cat 

 family and frequents the open plains. 



The serval cat is the handsomest of the smaller African 

 cats. It weighs up to 24 pounds and stands about 18 inches 

 at the shoulder. It nests in anthills or in the dense bush, 

 and its favorite food are small mammals and such game 

 birds as guinea fowl and spur fowl. 



The puma or cougar, popularly called the "mountain 

 lion," is next to the largest of New World cats, resembling 

 the female lion in appearance. Like all cats, the puma stalks 

 and rushes its- prey, unless, like the leopard, it can spring 

 upon it from an elevation. 



The jaguar is the largest, the strongest, and the most 

 dangerous of the New World cats, resembling the leopard 

 in its spotted skin. The jaguar is not a fastidious feeder. 

 It takes whatever comes its way. 



The following table shows significant contrasts in the 

 size of the energy-controlling organs of an impala from 

 Africa with a member of the cat and dog family, namely, a 

 jaguar and a timber wolf. 



The principle that attack in the cat family depends on a 

 large adrenal-sympathetic system for crisis energy and that 

 there is less need for constant energy, hence less need for 



