Servals are bred with domestic cats to create savannahs
Steadicams were used for a few sequences, such as capturing a
serval hunting in South Africa, but in most cases they were too cumbersome, inflexible or expensive for close-up nature photography.
By late spring, the "major combat operations" phase of
Serval was complete.
After a decade of counterinsurgency operations in Afghanistan, the Operation
Serval campaign brought back offensive combined arms maneuver in depth, with French engineers facing challenges that were slightly different from those confronted in Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan.
Aware of the fact that one of the major issues which led to the success of the jihadists in 2012 was the internal struggle between some Tuaregs and the Malian government, the French avoided the deadly trap of feeding a local insurgency by turning Tuaregs against the forces of Operation
Serval. Their first move was to accept the support of the MLNA--but discreetly because the population of southern Mali might interpret such action as treason.
The animal is a
serval which has been used in a rock concert and then set free by Feather, the adopted daughter of Midir, the leader singer of the band, The Gentry.
Du front malien, expurge de la menace des groupes terroristes terrasses par l'operation
Serval a l'oeuvre depuis janvier 2013, a la bataille decisive du Sahel deployant, a partir du 1er aout, l'etendard de son heritiere Barkhane, la France mobilise environ 3.000 hommes (1.000 a Gao et 1.200 au Tchad) autour d'un etat-major base dans la capitale tchadienne et procede a la fusion des dispositifs Epervier et Sabre installes au Tchad et au Burkina Faso.
Noteworthy among them are the black rhinoceros, buffalo, hippopotamus, wildebeest, Burchell's zebra, eland, Grant's and Thomson's gazelles, waterbuck, cheetah, African wild dog,
serval, and leopard.
Rather, with what hindsight shows us to have been rather prescient judgment by New Africans editors, French land and air forces were launched into Mali days later for the start of Operation
Serval, another geopolitically controversial military intervention of recent times.
It is a team owned by a private corporation called
Serval Industries.
A South Carolina woman I know owns a pet
serval. This sleek and gorgeous spotted African wild cat is rarely encountered on safari.
When such offensives do occur, however, France's Operation
Serval in Mali may provide many lessons for how to contain the threat by using carefully coordinated coalition operations.