Savannah: Grassland with widely-spaced trees.
Steppes: A plain without trees, dominated by short grasses.
African Wild Cat    |     Black-Footed Cat    |     Caracal    |     Serval
Habitats
African Wild Cat
The African Wild Cat roams the steppes, savannah and bush land of Africa and the Middle East.
Black-Footed Cat
The Black-Footed Cat roams the savannah and steppes of Botswana, Namibia, and South Africa. It is marginally distributed in Zimbabwe and Angola.
Caracal
The Caracal inhabits dry steppes, semi-desert, woodlands, savannah and scrub forest. It is widespread south of the Sahara.
Serval
The Serval prefers well-watered savannah and is widespread in sub-Saharan Africa except for rainforest, semi-desert and true desert.
Habitat Environments
Sweeping winter grasslands studded with flame- coloured aloes near Pearston in the Eastern Cape, South Africa. This is a typical habitat for the Karoo cat species of Caracal, Black-Footed Cat and African Wild Cat.
Aloes are prolific in the Eastern Cape veld.
The savannah grasslands in the vicinity of Cradock in the Eastern Cape, typical habitat for the Karoo cats.
The beautiful arid habitat of a dry winter in the Mountain Zebra National Park near Cradock in the Eastern Cape, South Africa, comprises mainly renosterveld and fynbos.
The rocky hills, and sweeping savannah grasslands of the Mountain Zebra National Park near Cradock in the Eastern Cape, South Africa.
Serval prefer well-watered bushveld but are expanding their ranges along watercourses like this one near Steytlerville in the Eastern Cape, South Africa.