It became said that rather than a simple domestic protector against vermin and venomous creatures or a fierce warrior, she was a huntress, perhaps as a caracal, who wandered the desert alone at night looking for prey, gaining the title Night huntress with sharp eye and pointed claw.

In North India and Pakistan, the caracal is locally known as syahgosh ( स ् य ा हग ो ष / سیاه گوش ) which is a Persian term meaning black ears.

The caracal, Caracal caracal, is a fiercely territorial medium-sized cat ranging over Western Asia, South Asia and Africa.

The word caracal comes from the Turkish word " karakulak ", meaning " black ear ".

A caracal can drive a subadult hyena from a carcass.

* The name Almach is derived from the Arabic العناق الأرض al -‘ anāq al -’ arđ ̧ " the caracal " ( desert lynx ).

The Children's Trail lets children get close to many small mammals from around the world, including emus, an ocelot, a caracal, Siamang gibbons, and golden-mantled tamarins.

* Caracal caracal caracal ( Schreber, 1776 ), East, Central and South Africa

Its closest relatives are the caracal ( Caracal caracal ) and serval ( Leptailurus serval ), while the Asian golden cat ( Pardofelis temminckii ) belongs to the genus Pardofelis.

* Caracal caracal algira ( Wagner, 1841 ), North Africa

* Caracal caracal damarensis ( Roberts, 1926 ), Namibia

* Caracal caracal limpopoensis ( Roberts, 1926 ), Botswana

* Caracal caracal lucani ( Rochebrune, 1885 ), Gabon

* Caracal caracal poecilotis ( Thomas and Hinton, 1921 ), West Africa

* Caracal caracal schmitzi ( Matschie, 1912 ), Israel, West Asia, Iran, Arabia, Pakistan, India, Jordan

There have been reports of the Indian Wolf ( canis lupus indica ), hyena and the caracal the latter being an open country dweller.

Notable animals in the mountains include the walia ibex, gelada ( a close relative of baboons ), and caracal ( a cat ).

Some of the wildlife found in the Sariska Tiger Reserve include the Bengal tiger, leopard, jungle cat, caracal, striped hyena, golden jackal, chital, sambhar, nilgai, chinkara, four-horned antelope ' chousingha ' ( extinct ), wild boar, hare, hanuman langur, Rhesus monkeys, and plenty of bird species and reptiles.

More widespread mammals found here include the Mantled Guereza ( Colobus guereza ), which is also threatened as its habitat disappears as is that of many other mammals of the highlands such as Olive Baboon ( Papio anubis ), Golden Jackal ( Canis aureus ), Leopard ( Panthera pardus ), Lion ( Panthera leo ), Spotted Hyena ( Crocuta crocuta ), Caracal ( Caracal caracal ), Serval ( Felis serval ), Common Duiker ( Sylvicapra grimmia ) and Red River Hog ( Potamochoerus porcus ).

Predators of the Cape fox include large raptors, such as eagles and owls, a well as caracal, leopards, hyenas, and lions.

Other mammals found in the boundaries of the park include caracal, Cape Buffalo, black rhino, eland, black wildebeest, red hartebeest, gemsbok and grey rhebok.

The only felids to lack significant markings are the lion, puma, caracal and jaguarundi.

Neither the caracal, sometimes called the Persian lynx or African lynx, nor the jungle cat, called the swamp lynx, is a member of the Lynx genus.

Two smaller, secretive, nocturnal carnivores, the rooikat ( caracal ) and the vaalboskat ( also called the vaalkat or African Wild Cat ) were once common on the mountain.

It is a close relative of both the caracal and the serval, but current classification places it as the only member of the genus Profelis.

Overall, the African golden cat resembles the caracal, but has shorter un-tufted ears, a longer tail and a shorter, more rounded face.

DNA studies have shown that the serval is closely related to the African golden cat and the caracal.

The caracal is classified as a small cat, yet is amongst the heaviest of all small cats, as well as the quickest, being nearly as fast as the serval.

The caracal is a slender, yet muscular cat, with long legs and a short tail.

The caracal resembles a Eurasian lynx, and for a long time it was considered a close relative of the lynxes.

The caracal is in length, with a relatively short tail.

The feet of a caracal have numerous stiff hairs growing between the pads.

The caracal is distributed over Africa, the Middle East, Pakistan and India.

The caracal may survive without drinking for a long period — the water demand is satisfied with the body fluids of its prey.

If no cover is available in which to conceal itself, a caracal may flatten itself against the ground and remain motionless, allowing its coat colour to act as camouflage.

C. c. caracal at the Toronto Zoo, Canada

Game drives in countries such as Kenya and Botswana widely encounter other animals, but a sighting of a caracal is extremely rare.

The caracal has been hybridised with the domestic cat at the Moscow Zoo.

* Caracal caracal nubica ( J.

It was in order to avoid the stuffy routine of middle class life that Holmes became a detective in the first place.

When this second dilemma first became obvious -- during the mid to late '50's -- the United States appeared to have three choices.

In many cases the revolutionary production has offered no more than sensational effects: the first hearing was fascinating and the second disillusioning as the gap between sound and substance became clearer.

After the first few weeks, it was obvious that rules had to be made, laid down and obeyed -- even if our popularity ratings became subnormal as a result.

( Sanity, solvency and relations with our wine merchant took a beating that first summer as we inadvertently became the neighborhood free-drink stop.

In 1846 Matthew B. Goodwin, jeweler and watchmaker, became the town's first telegrapher in a dwelling he built for himself and his business `` two doors north of the Equinox House '' or `` one door north of the Bank, Manchester, Vermont ''.

Although slab stock appeared first, it soon became apparent that for the production of cushions with irregular shapes, crowned contours, or rounded edges, the cutting of slab stock is a wasteful and uneconomical process.

Radio broadcasts, however -- now that even plain people could afford `` loud speakers '' on their sets -- held old fans to the major-league races and attracted new ones, chiefly women, who through what the philosopher called the ineluctable modality of audition, became first inured, then attracted, then addicted to the long afternoon recitals of the doings in some distant baseball park.

The word amphibian became restricted in the taxonomical sense to what we now use around 1600, with the taxon " Amphibia " first published in scientific classification circa 1819.

* In 1870 the small City of Ragusa ( Dubrovnik ) became the first small Lifeboat to cross the Atlantic from Cork to Boston with two men crew, John Charles Buckley and Nikola Primorac ( di Costa ), only.

* In 1896 Frank Samuelsen and George Harbo from Norway became the first people to ever row across the Atlantic Ocean.

* In 1919, the American NC-4 became the first seaplane to cross the Atlantic ( though it made a couple of landings on islands and the sea along the way, and taxied several hundred miles ).

* In 1932, Amelia Earhart became the first female to make a solo flight across the Atlantic

* In 1999, after rowing for 81 days and 4, 767 kilometres ( 2, 962 mi ), Tori Murden became the first woman to cross the Atlantic Ocean by rowboat alone when she reached Guadeloupe from the Canary Islands.

The Greek alphabet thus became the world's first " true " alphabet.

Van Vogt was always interested in the idea of all-encompassing systems of knowledge ( akin to modern meta-systems ) -- the characters in his very first story used a system called ' Nexialism ' to analyze the alien's behaviour, and he became interested in the General Semantics of Alfred Korzybski.

Argon became the first member of the noble gases to be discovered.

A collection of short stories for children Gallery of Children, and other stories that became part of the Winnie-the-Pooh books, were first published in 1925.

With Robert Morison ’ s 1672 Plantarum umbelilliferarum distribution nova it became the first group of plants for which a systematic study was published.

Aramaic gradually became the lingua franca throughout the Middle East, with the script at first complementing and then displacing Assyrian cuneiform as the predominant writing system.

During this period winter sports were slowly introduced: in 1882 the first figure skating championship was held in St. Moritz, and downhill skiing became a trendy sport with English visitors early in the 20th century, as the first ski-lift was installed in 1908 above Grindelwald.

Her first appearance was in a short story published in The Sketch magazine in 1926, " The Tuesday Night Club ", which later became the first chapter of The Thirteen Problems ( 1932 ).

* 1995 – U. S. President Bill Clinton became the first President to visit Northern Ireland.