THE GENET 
Also known as the Musk-kat or Misselyat-kat ; Insimba 
of Swazis and Zulus (Kirby); Inywagi of Amaxosa 
(Stanford) ; Tshipa of Basutos (Kirby) 
Tue Genet is one of the cat family of animals, and 
in South Africa its nearest relations are the Civets 
and the Mungooses. 
Genets are nocturnal, except in the more secluded 
districts, where they may often be surprised during 
the daytime in the act of hunting for prey in the 
shades of the forest or in secluded gloomy kloofs. 
Their favourite haunts are the bush-veld, scrub- 
covered hillsides, kloofs, and forests. During the 
day they lie concealed in the midst of thick tangled 
undergrowth, rank matted grass, extended full 
length along the branch of a tree or in a hollow in 
the interior of the trunk. Now and then they are 
found in rock crevices, or down holes excavated by 
other animals, and which the original occupants 
have abandoned. 
The genet is silent and secretive, in the extreme, 
in its ways. Its body is long and slender, and its 
legs are comparatively short, and when stalking its . 
prey its nose is thrust forward, the body elongated 
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