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Evil looking cat!
Is this a domestic cat thats bred in the wild or some other species of cat?
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Morkel - looks good to me with your usual excellent techs and the comp works very well. I'm impressed with a 45 minute sighting. Usually when I've seen them they have been quite skittish and wary.
TFS,
Rachel
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Thanks Rachel, Shane and Anette!

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Evil looking cat!
Is this a domestic cat thats bred in the wild or some other species of cat?
Shane, this is a pure feral species, quite larger than normal housecats and they have this typical coat marking/coloration. They are often, however, cross-bred accidentally by roaming housecats. Most game reserves in South Africa have a shoot-on-sight policy for feral housecats because of this.
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That is a neat looking cat jacked up in the rear end like that. I would think this thing is pretty quick. Very good IQ and I love those green eyes.
Jack
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Jack, you should see how high these guys can jump to catch birds in flight!! 
Check this one I quickly found on YouTube...
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Wow! That is pretty impressive! I have always thought that cats were the most capable hunters on the planet.
Jack
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Morkel, its an unusual species to see during day time hours and you got to spend 45 min with it. Great for you. Love the cat and the sharpness, but wish the BG to be more interesting. Understood that you shot from a safari vehicle and cannot get lower. Loi
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Loi, I was shooting from my own SUV which allows a lower POV than standard safari vehicles.
I'm not sure I understand what you want more from the background? It's clean and allows the subject to stand out...with the size of these animals you'd need to be able to leopard-crawl (not allowed in the National Park) to have a chance of getting an eye-level shot unless the cat is in a tree.
Last edited by Morkel Erasmus; 07-09-2013 at 01:32 AM.
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Morkel, sorry, I didn't mean it the wrong way. I meant to say I would prefer to see less of the black burn area in the BG. Wonderful image of this species. I only had a glimpse of it during a night drive. Loi
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No worries Loi - as Gabriela said this is a unique setting and time to see these guys in.
The black part of the background is the shadow of a camelthorn tree falling on the ground.
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Hi Morkel, like the 'skulking' posture, nice light too. Colours look balance along with the blacks, nice one.
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Steve
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Morkel, nice job getting a quality image of this species. Posture, light on the eyes makes it work well. TFS this one.
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Lovely image Morkel, great colours and light well handled, i would possibly look at cropping a little off the bottom if it were mine
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Beautiful looking cat you have here, its very alike the Jungle cat we find here in India with that typical black tip on the tail
great details and i love the exposure as i can see the light stripes
nice looking image