Video of Jabari the Serval Playing Fetch the Ball

[spottacus]

Video of my African Serval fetching a ball! Filmed with my Serval to show how he plays fetch for hours:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzDQ_zdyoVA

Comments

[mrianti]

Cute !

[spottacus]

Thanks. I haz 3exotics, all sweet.

[schnee]

Aww, that's very cute. It's lovely to see how much fun he's having there, too - and he's such a pretty and graceful animal.

You do have a nice house as well. :)

[spottacus]

He is awesome to watch run and jump. And he iz such a runt, barely 35 lbs / 16 kg.

House and firsuits from founding and takin biotech co public wiff foundng friends...

[schnee]

Mmm, what would a normal weight be? Wikipedia cites a book called "Wild cats of the World" for a figure of 9 to 18 kg, but if that's accurate, 16 kg would be quite fine.

And yeah, it's awesome on video already - I imagine it must be even more so in real life. ^^

[spottacus]

Excellent question.

In captivity, servals are often neutered (they are not endangered), tend to get less exercise, and eat more. As a result, more typical adult size for males in captivity is 18 to 25 kg (about 38 to 55 lbs.).

When a new USDA inspector saw him at 2 yrs of age, she said "wow, i've never seen such a small serval." I replied, you shouldnt say that to an adult male!", but she didn't think that was very funny.