I can't recall if this was Discovery or NGC, but I had never heard of this particular cat, common to South Africa.
Did you see that vertical leap? Kapow! Aside, the Guinea Fowl is a fairly muscular bird. The one video I saw (not this one) gave it good odds for outrunning a predator with a nice burst of speed. Unfortunately, in that video, the fowl can only fly like 100 yards before they tucker out. Jumpy Cat caught it on the descent.
What's writeworthy: I recall from the original program that these are early morning hunters, so I imagined a scene with a leaping cat while my adventurers are eating breakfast. With that kind of vertical leap, the fiction possibilities (not rooted in science, as much of mine is) are pretty endless.
I'll try not to inundate the blog with animal videos, but it's my current research, and I can't get enough of them, so I hope you don't mind me sharing just a little.
Wow! That was an impressive leap. It has incredible ears that thing too. Nice vid :-)
ReplyDeleteThanks! I will be doing a scene with the jumpy cat in the next few days. I can't resist.
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