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6 February 2024

Throughout our keep at Chobe Savanna Lodge, Nambia we ate dinner after sundown on an out of doors deck with an attractive view of the Chobe River and Botswana’s Chobe Nationwide Park, pictured under from Chobe Savanna Lodge’s web site.

On our second night we had a customer that appeared 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 should have clambered up the deck poles in the dead of night to attend on the fringe of the eating space for a handout. He has an omnivorous food regimen 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 peak we’d have realized he was not a cat.

(photograph credit are within the captions)

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