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Serval Grassland Hunt Lab (2D)

2D serval acoustic-hunting lab: rodents rustle through tall grass, servals triangulate the sound with a real bearing-error model, stalk the estimated position, and execute the serval's signature vertical mousing pounce — hearing accuracy and grass height genuinely drive detection range and strike success.

Animals & Their World2DModerate60 FPS📱 Mobile-adapted⇄ 3D version

This 2D companion pulls the acoustic-hunting mechanic out of the 3D savanna scene into a top-down lab: rodents scurry through the grass emitting rustle "pings", each serval independently localizes a ping with a bearing-and-range error that depends on your hearing-accuracy slider, stalks the resulting estimate rather than the rodent's true position, and finishes with the serval's real vertical mousing pounce whose success genuinely falls as grass height rises and rises with hearing accuracy.

⚙ Under the hood

2D serval acoustic-hunting lab with a bearing-and-range localization error model, grass-height-dependent sound dampening and pounce concealment, and an energy budget that ties patrolling, stalking and pouncing together.

servalacoustic localizationmousing pouncepredator-preybearing errorsavanna

2D · HTML5 Canvas 2D · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install