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Servaline Genets (Genetta servalina): Ringtails of Central East and West Africa

Genets look like housecats with pointed fox faces, short mongoose limbs, and striped raccoon tails. Their spotted bodies recall leopards. But servaline genets seem more lynx-like.

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Sulawesi Brown Palm Civets (Macrogalidia musschenbroekii): Ringtails of One Indonesian Island

Most civets call more than one country home. Being native to just one confers the title endemic. Sulawesi brown palm civets live vulnerably on only one Indonesian island.

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Pardine Genets (Genetta pardina): Ringtails of Central Africa West of the Ghanaian Volta River

Pardine genets bite and groom like cats. They have a fox's muzzle, a leopard's spots, and a raccoon's tail. They relate closely to mongeese but smell musky like civets.

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Malabar Large-Spotted Civets (Viverra civettina): Ringtails of the Western Ghats in India

Malabar large-spotted civets favor southwest India’s coastal lowland and mountain forests. Big spots mark their bodies. Traditional physicians use their aromatic, medicinal musk.

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Feline Small-Spotted Genets (Genetta felina): Ringtails of Angola, Namibia, South Africa, and Zambia

Scientists equate science with change. For example, Pluto’s downsizing to dwarf planet is downward change. Feline genets upgrading to species represents upward mobility.

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Rusty-Spotted Panther Genets (Genetta maculata): Ringtails of Central, Eastern and Southern Africa

Rusty-spotted panther genets are born furry grey. They become spotted if they inherit mini-leopard looks. They turn all-black if they receive mini-panther-like melanistic genes.

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Giant Forest Genets (Genetta victoriae): Ringtails of Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Uganda

Animal names are meant to inform even though they can be misleading. For example, giant forest genets do not look super-huge. They live in both forested savannahs and rainforests.

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Aquatic Fish-Eating Genets (Genetta piscivora): Non-Ringtails in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Non-aquatic genets eat meat and whatever tastes good in their paths. They have spotted bodies and ringed tails. But none of that is true of all-dark, fish-eating aquatic genets.

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Blotched Large-Spotted Cape Genets (Genetta tigrina): Ringtails in Southernmost South Africa

Blotched large-spotted Cape genets call South Africa’s Cape provinces home. Big spots form broken blotches on their flanks. Dark wide and thin pale rings stripe their tails.

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Thierry's Hausa Genets (Genetta thierryi): Ringtails of the Elbow of Western Africa

Abyssinian and Thierry's hausa genets claim old lineages. They alone of genets have bright chins. But hausas inhabit West Africa's Elbow and Abyssinians East Africa's Horn.

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African Wild Dog | African Hunting Dog

The African Wild Dog or African Hunting dog is a beautiful animal. Sadly now endangered, there are only a few thousand of these animals left. Learn all about the African Wild Dog.

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Jerdon's Brown Palm Civets (Paradoxurus jerdoni): Ringtails of the Western Ghats in India

Jerdon’s brown palm civets are named for a pioneer cataloguer of India’s animals and plants. They have all-brown, unspotted, unstriped physiques. They like having palm flower sap.

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Schouteden's Genets (Genetta schoutedeni): Ringtails of Central, East, and West Sub-Saharan Africa

Rusty-spotted panther genets have many subspecies. They range widely in sub-Saharan Africa. But Dr Philippe Gaubert's data show the Schouteden subspecies to be a separate species.

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Crested Genets (Genetta cristata): Ringtails of Nigeria and Maybe Still of Cameroon, Congo and Gabon

Africa’s 13 – 16 non-aquatic genet species look alike. Each nevertheless refines ringed tails, short limbs, spotted bodies and trim muzzles. Crested genets showcase crested necks.

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African Palm Civets (Nandinia binotata): Ringtails of Central Africa From West Coast to East

African palm civets claim forested, grassy, scrubby swathes from Central Africa's west to east coasts. They really like oil palm pulp and rainy, warm days. They make lots of musk.

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Sri Lankan Brown Palm Civets (Paradoxurus montanus): Non-Ringtails of Sri Lanka

Sri Lankan brown palm civets have grey-brown bodies with yellow-white tail tips. They like palm flower sap. They live in Sri Lanka's cloud-forested highlands and dry mountaintops.

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Johnston's Genet (Genetta johnstoni): Ringtail of Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Sierra Leone

Smithsonian mammalogist Kris Helgen calls ghosts fauna known only to museums. It fits Johnston’s genets since 1907. In 2000 Rice University scientist Amy Dunham found one alive.

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Golden Dry-Zone Palm Civets (Paradoxurus stenocephalus): Non-Ringtails Endemic to Sri Lanka

Golden dry-zone palm civets are gold-brown. Three stripes decorate their backs, from shoulders to tail. Central Sri Lanka's misty mountains supply their favorite palm flower sap.

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