6 February 2024
Throughout our keep at Chobe Savanna Lodge, Nambia we ate dinner after sundown on an outside deck with a good looking view of the Chobe River and Botswana’s Chobe Nationwide Park, pictured beneath from Chobe Savanna Lodge’s web site.
On our second night we had a customer that seemed like a cat although not a cat in any respect.
The rusty-spotted or large-spotted genet (Genetta maculata) is a member of the Viverridae household that features civet cats, none of that are felines.
Genets are glorious climbers so this one will need to have clambered up the deck poles at midnight to attend on the fringe of the eating space for a handout. He has an omnivorous food plan that features rodents, doves, skinks, spiders, eggs, fruits, berries and seeds so our buffet actually had one thing to tempt him.
Luckily for everybody our genet was shy and ran to cover if anybody approached — all the time crouched low.
If he’d stood as much as his full top we’d have realized he was not a cat.
(picture credit are within the captions)
