caracal, desert lynx (Caracal caracal) Français : Planche de Walter Charleton (1677) décrivant le Siyah Gush (Caracal caracal) dans : Charleton, W. 1677. (Gualteri Charletoni) Exercitationes de differentiis & nominibus animalium. Quibus accedunt mantissa anatomica, et quaedam de variis fossilium generibus, deque differentiis & nominibus colorum. Oxoniae, e theatro Sheldoniano (Oxford, Sheldonian Theatre, London). 119 pp.
Date 31 January 2015, 15:11:10
Source Charleton, W. 1677. (Gualteri Charletoni) Exercitationes de differentiis & nominibus animalium. Quibus accedunt mantissa anatomica, et quaedam de variis fossilium generibus, deque differentiis & nominibus colorum. Oxoniae, e theatro Sheldoniano (Oxford, Sheldonian Theatre, London). 119 pp. [From Google books : http://books.google.fr/booksid=Rh8OAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&hl=fr&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false]
Author Walter Charleton (1677)
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The caracal or desert lynx (Caracal caracal) is a medium-sized wild cat native to Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia and India. Its natural habitat includes semi-deserts, open savannas, shrublands, moist woodlands and montane forests.