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Striped speedcat; Festinatelidae virganus
Topic Started: Aug 11 2013, 06:00 PM (50 Views)
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Striped speedcat (Festinatelidae virganus)

Order: Carnivora
Family: Felidae
Genus: Festinatelidae

These felids , descended from servals , are swift predators hunting with an ambush technique bursting out of the high grass speeding after its prey. They took over the niche of a large African felid named the cheetah.
They have a good camouflage that consist out of of a thing and narrow body and a coat that mimics the grass with different yellow and brown colored stripes. Its hunting technique is very similar to that of the cheetah , waiting for valuable prey to come near and then hunting it down. Their prey consist out of bigger mammals but they also fill their diet with smaller rodents, birds , reptiles and insects. They need big prey and hunt once in two-three days on piece of game down , mostly a hareer separated from his herd.
They are 1 m big at the shoulders and are 80 cm long, excluding tail . Speedcats still have the iconic ears of its ancestor that they use for catching certain sounds.
They live solitary in a territory fiercly defending it. Only in mating season females allow males to come inside their territories and mate with them. After a gestation period of 4 months 2 to 5 cubs are born but usually only two or three will survive. After 8 months cus become indepent of their mothr and leaver her territory. In that 8 months their mother will teach them everything they need to survive in the open.
They reach adulthood at an age of 4 and their average lifetime is about 15 years.
These are one of the most common predators of the African savannah. Sometimes predators like the maned apes or Maned pussycats will attack cubs of the Striped speedcat because they see it as unwanted competition but adults are mostly avoided.
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