(n.) A fierce, wild dog (Canis Dukhunensis), found in the mountains of India. It is remarkable for its propensity to hunt the tiger and other wild animals in packs.
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Serval
Definition:
(n.) An African wild cat (Felis serval) of moderate size. It has rather long legs and a tail of moderate length. Its color is tawny, with black spots on the body and rings of black on the tail.
Example Sentences:
(1) French troops are in Mali as part of the ongoing Operation Serval, which started at the beginning of last year and is aimed at ousting Islamist militants in the north of the country.
(2) Inseminations using heterologous (domestic cat) spermatozoa also resulted in fertilized oocytes in the tiger, leopard, snow leopard, puma, serval, and Geoffroy's cat (range in fertilization rate, 5.0% for leopard to 46.2% for puma).
(3) Operation Serval, which aimed to repel Al-Qaida militants who had taken control of the north of the country and were threatening to move south to Bamako, was launched by Paris in January 2013.
(4) We studied the IgE and IgG4 response of 11 cat-allergic patients against Fel d I-like structures in eight members of the Felidae family: ocelot, puma, serval, siberian tiger, lion, jaguar, snow leopard, and caracal.
(5) These statements should, however, be taken with some reservation, partly because the water phase of the blood may vary considerably post mortem (60-90 per cent) and partly because the urine alcohol concentration depends on serval variable factors.
(6) While officials in Paris declared they were "satisfied" with Operation Serval, as the French military intervention is codenamed, the military was also reporting unexpectedly fierce resistance in the west of the country.
(7) For one thing, there is a credible theory that the French defence ministry has imposed a media blackout on reporting Operation Serval, preventing less savoury details from being reported.
(8) It was nomads who saw the plane falling during the night, and they alerted the Burkinabe army.Gossi is 90 miles (140km) from the strategic garrison town of Gao, where many of the 1,600 French troops in Mali as part of Operation Serval are based.
(9) France has 1,600 troops in Mali as part of Operation Serval, which started at the beginning of last year and is aimed at ousting Islamist militants in the north of the country.
(10) Strain 2 of Servall-Wright male guinea pigs were used.
(11) With regard to the species, positive reactions were found in Erinaceus albiventris, Eidolon helbum, Cercopithecus aethiops, Genetta spec., Canis adustus et aurus, Felis silvestris, Leptailurus serval, Arvicanthis niloticus, Mastomys spec., Mus spec., Gazella spec., Tragelaphus spec.
(12) Three adult bengal tigers, 2 immature white tigers, and 3 adult servals were vaccinated IM with three 1-ml doses of a subunit FeLV vaccine with dosage interval guidelines of the manufacturer.
(13) Operation Serval as it is known – named after an African wildcat – is believed to have split French soldiers between Bamako and Mopti.
(14) The animal cargo, worth $113,715, reportedly included: two lappet-faced vultures, two serval cats, two impalas, two black verreaux’s eagles, three elands, four giraffes, four ground hornbill, five spring hares, six oryx, seven kori bustard, 10 dik-dik, 20 Grant’s gazelle, 68 Thomson’s gazelle, and a secretary bird.
(15) France, which has 3,500 troops on the ground in Mali, is paying for its own initial intervention, codenamed Operation Serval.
(16) French officials said the weekend fighting, in the Ifoghas mountains near the Algerian border, had claimed the life of a paratrooper, 26-year-old Corporal Cedric Charenton, the third French soldier to have been killed since France launched Operation Serval on 11 January.
(17) Fighting continued for the eighth day since French troops launched Operation Serval, conducting bombing raids and ground combat in rebel strongholds in north and central Mali.
(18) Complete tick collections were made from a side-striped jackal (Canis adustus), 2 wild dogs (Lycaon pictus), a spotted hyaena (Crocuta crocuta), a several (Felis serval), 2 African civets (Civettictis civetta), 2 leopards (Panthera pardus) and a lion (Panthera leo) in the Kruger National Park in the north-eastern Transvaal.
(19) This study demonstrates directly that the axostyle complex generates torque, and describes serval of its dynamic properties.
(20) It all began last Friday, when Operation Serval was launched.