'Serval are shy and difficult to see even though they are common predators in the long grass of the Okavango floodplains in Botswana. However some serval are not shy at all and make no attempt to hide or conceal themselves. It's the rare encounters with those kind of servals that will provide you with your much valued sighting. I located this particular serval only because I became intrigued by the behavior of a giraffe next to the track we were driving along. Often one locates predators by watching their prey. The giraffe was staring fixedly right down into the grass in front of it. Then I noticed the serval which ignored us for a while giving me my best serval sighting ever when it pounced into a clump of grass and came up with a mouse in its mouth. A kill!'

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