With an estimated inhabitants of 60 caracals in Cape City’s metropolitan space, it’s the Mom Metropolis’s final remaining giant predator. For a very long time, and amongst many communities, the caracal was seen as a ‘drawback animal,’ typically a sufferer of predator management mechanisms.
Fortuitously, and because of the work of the City Caracal Challenge, Cape City’s ‘city’ caracal inhabitants have turn out to be higher understood, and we get very excited when they’re noticed on Desk Mountain.
Andrea Wiedermann got here throughout a caracal when mountain climbing up Platteklip Gorge, and the cat even joined her for a while as she made her manner up the ascent.
Caracal noticed on Platteklip Gorge!
Final week, on 13 October, Andrea Weidemann got here throughout a caracal resting on the steep ascent, earlier than becoming a member of her for an excellent stretch of the hike. Watch the reel of movies beneath pic.twitter.com/ooRV802qSB— Getaway Journal (@GetawayMagazine) October 18, 2021
— Getaway Journal (@GetawayMagazine) October 18, 2021
— Getaway Journal (@GetawayMagazine) October 18, 2021
She wasn’t the one one to get fortunate with a caracal sighting. On the opposite facet of Tabe Mountain, Caroline Jordaan got here throughout one other caracal en path to the contour path simply above Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens.
One other Caracal sighting! this time on the opposite facet of Desk Mountain, the place Caroline Jordaan got here throughout one en path to the contour path simply above Kirstenbosch Gardens. pic.twitter.com/eCw20QEtie
— Getaway Journal (@GetawayMagazine) October 18, 2021
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