Illustrative photo, not taken at OkangawaKgalagadi Transfrontier Park, South Africa. Rute Martins (Leoa's Photography), CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
African wildcat
A slender, sandy-grey wild cat with faint stripes on its legs and reddish backs to its ears: the wild ancestor of the house cat. It is mostly active at night. It is not hunted.
Not hunted