Sentence examples for African wildcat from inspiring English sources

France has mobilised 2,300 troops for Operation Serval, named after a small African wildcat.

A variant of the African wildcat, domestic cats probably first cozied up to humans in Egypt several thousand years ago.

Though cats come in a diversity of colors, body forms, and fur types, all but a few are exclusively descended from the African wildcat.

Taking in the scene through the bars of a crate was a baby serval, an African wildcat with a spotted coat similar to that of a leopard.

Operation Serval as it is known – named after an African wildcat – is believed to have split French soldiers between Bamako and Mopti.

There have been cases of animals of one species being born to surrogate mothers of another species, such as a house cat giving birth to an African wildcat.

Savannah cats are a new hybrid that's a cross between domestic cats and servals, which are African wildcats.

The nondomestic cats included European cats, Near Eastern wildcats, central Asian cats, southern African wildcats, and Chinese desert cats, all of which were considered subspecies of Felis silvestris.

While 33 million beef cattle are slaughtered in America each year, the country only has 570 cloned cattle - and 10 cloned horses, eight pigs, five African wildcats, three mules and a cloned sand cat.

Recent DNA studies suggest that cats entered the human sphere during the Neolithic period, at the dawn of agriculture, when Felis silvestris lybica, the Arabian and African subspecies of wildcat, developed a high tolerance for living among people.

The most unsettling recent reminder that South African liberation is far from fully delivered was a wildcat strike in August that ended with the massacre of platinum miners in a town called Marikana.