After dark, while I was going to my first dinner at Ndutu Lodge, a genet greeted me. It walked across the top of the wall separating the dining room from the bar, just below the rafters. From the end of the wall it peered down at me.
The lodge brochure says:
Genets have made themselves at home in the rafters of the lounge. Like sleek
and graceful spotted cats, they are related o the mongoose, and perform a
valuable service by controlling rodents and
insects.
Mongooses
(Family Herpestidae)
Hyenas
(Family Hyaenidae)
Spotted Hyena
(Crocuta crocuta)
Cats
(Family Felidae)
Serval
(Leptailurus serval)
Leopard
(Panthera pardus)
Lion
(Panthera leo)
Cheetah
(Acinonyx jubatus)
I wanted to see a cheetah, but we never found any on the Serengeti. Instead, I saw some in the zoo in Nairobi.
