This is a really excellent photograph of a black (melanistic) serval in the wild taken by British wildlife photographer George Turner. He used a Nikon D5 camera with a 500 mm, F4 lens. The Nikon D5 is a full frame professional DSLR camera. As you can see from his record of the encounter, he …
The picture below is of a black serval taken by a camera trap in the Kilimanjaro area of Tanzania. It is the first picture of a black serval that I have seen in Tanzania. Black servals are relatively common in Kenya or they were in 2002. Things may change because of pressure by humans. …
I bumped into this picture of a white serval on Pinterest and was immediately aware that the cat was a serval and being white he had to be extremely rare as this coat type is not mentioned in the best book on the wild cat species1. Black or melanistic servals are quite commonplace in …
