Aquatic Genet
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The Aquatic Genet is a carnivore mammal from northeast Zaire, related to civets and linsangs. Unlike other genets, who have handsomely spotted coats and ringed tails, the Aquatic Genet has a plain, rusty-coloured coat, and a black tail, with white spots behind its eyes.
The Aquatic Genet feeds primarily on fish, which it attracts by tapping the surface of the water of rainforest streams. Its paws are hairless, an adaptation for catching fish. Despite its diet, and common name, it is not a good swimmer.
Like most members of its family, it is a secretive and rarely seen species, and little known about its behaviour in the wild.
[edit] References
Aquatic Genet's page on Animal Diversity Web
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