Reporting Date: 15th october 2011

The Serval cat is one of the smaller members of the cat families which is not well known compared to the bigger cats in the wild. It is mostly a solitary cat which feeds on small prey like rodents and birds. But on this particular day,  we  were  on our way back to the camp from a full day game drive in the afternoon when  just by the roadside  under  some acacia trees, we noticed a serval  cat  moving away with some furry  item on its mouth. We followed it for a little while and  found  that it was actually carrying a tail of a  banded  mongoose ,  this means that it was just  finishing  its meal. We looked around and saw  the  place  where  it had actually made the kill. The place   still had  some  traces of blood. This habit of preying  on  mongoose is very unusual for this cat which is mostly solitary and it amazed us. Mongoose  are usually very alert and move in large colonies.   

NB: * = Same animals seen by different rangers