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This serval has clearly heard the photographer deciding to take a photograph.
A serval’s ears are so sensitive they can hear the sound of muscles tensing in the photographer’s finger, or the gears turning in the photographer’s mind.
This image shot with the Sony 135mm f1.8 GM on a Sony A7R IV, at ISO 100 f/2.8 1/500. Only processing was cropping.