Servaline Genet
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The Servaline Genet is a species of carnivore mammal of the family Viverridae, related to civets and linsangs. Like all genets, it is outwardly feline, although not a close relative of the cat family.
The Servaline Genet has a number of subspecies. One of these, Lowe's Servaline Genet (C. s. lowei), made the news in 2002, when it was photographed in a camera trap in Tanzania. It was the first time the subspecies had been photographed, and the first recorded since its type specimen, a single pelt, was collected in 1932.
The endangered Crested Genet is thought by some authorities to be a subspecies of the Servaline Genet.
[edit] References
National Geographic: Rare African Predator Photographed for First Time
Lioncrusher's Domain
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