Images of Kruger Park Wildlife Facts - The Big Predators

Six thousand years ago Egyptians domesticated the African Wild Cat to control mice and rats raiding granaries. From these tamed animals, the...more

The Bat-Eared Fox has a silver-gray fluffy coat, a black-tipped bushy tail with a black stripe on top. An outstanding feature is the enormou...more

Black backed Jackals are a widely distributed species that are known for their cunning and daring. They are often seen nipping in to steal a...more

This species is very secretive in nature, which makes it difficult to census. The Black-Footed Cat is nevertheless considered rare. Except f...more

Brown Hyena [Hyaena brunnea]. This creature has pointed ears and striped legs with a dark brown to black shaggy coat, white shoulders and ne...more

The only true fox and the smallest canid found in South Africa. The Cape Fox is silver-grey in colour with large pointed ears. They have a d...more

Caracal A large, rufous-fawn Cat with tufted black ears, creamy underbelly with faded orange spots, and long legs. The face has exquisite ma...more

The African Civet has short, dense fur that is a greyish colour, with black spots arranged in rows along their bodies. Their legs and about ...more

The Large-Spotted Genet has a shoulder height of 210 mm, but this species is short legged. The elongated body has a length of 460 mm and a m...more

The Serval is a large, leggy and elegant, tawny-yellow wild cat richly marked with large, rather widely-spaced solid black spots which tend ...more

The Side Striped Jackal is a nocturnal, dog-like carnivore, with a head and body length of 650-800 mm and tail length of 300-400 mm. Shoulde...more

The Small-Spotted-Genet is slightly smaller than the Large-Spotted Genet, and the markings are more distinct black and white and without a r...more

One of the characteristic predators of the African savannah the Spotted Hyena was long thought to be solely a scavenger but it is no known t...more

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