I have a wood fire ritual at Biyamiti, mainly because it extends the time outside around flames and Albert seems to be as fascinated as me with fire because she always takes pics.
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After supper I conned the clan to walk the fence line with me in the dark to look for animals but it turned into an interesting event as every small noise got the clan assuming an attack from an unseen animal was imminent and my odd war story dropped in didn’t help.
“There’s something following us!”
“I can’t see the floor, what if there’s a snake, shine where we are walking, Dad you are walking too fast”
“Keep up you lot”
“There’s something following us!”
The Cow was certain that something was moving around on the fence line behind us and I had heard a rustle, however I thought nothing of it, but enjoyed playing along, so I aimed the torch down the fence line behind us and to my surprise eyes reflected back which got the clan jabbering big time.
It took a few seconds to ID the suspect as it was about 30m from us
“What is it? Wait, it’s a civet!”
The civet was still slowly heading our direction, so we planned an ambush. I gave the Cow the torch, got the camera ready and we waited in the dark quietly listening for movement.
The dark shape continued to approach along the fence line and I was grinning in the dark as I could see that the civet was going to cruise straight past us, but I expected it to bolt as soon as we put the torch on, however it initially just parked off looking at us.
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The Civet stood still checking us out for around 20 seconds and then looked around and continued with its mission so we followed along until it sat down to watch us again.
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, however the Cow and Rats woke up big time. The lone teenage dog cruised into what seemed to be a drainage line and highlighted more dogs that we hadn’t seen yet.
Being night animals they are not seen very often 
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