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Small Spotted
Genetta genetta |
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- Distribution:
- Whole Africa. Sahara desert excluded.
- Habitat:
- It loves the wide spaces and the mountains till 2.500 m high. It's important the presence of places like holes in the plants or in the ground or stony ravine on which it can hide.
- Size:
- 15 to 20 cm.both male and female.
2 to 3 Kg. both male and female.
- Behaviour:
- octurnal. It sleeps during the day between rocks or the vegetation. It runs a lonesome life.
Its worst enemies are the cheetah and the big owls.
- Food:
- Carnivore. It prefers spiders, big insects, little mammals and birds.
- Reproduction:
- 2 to 4 kittens after a period of gestation of 3.5 months.
- Longevità:
- From 10 to 15 years.
