In Africa, predators include leopard, serval, caracal, ratel and large owl species. Predators of Cape cobras include the honey badger (ratel). Another is the Turkmen ratel, a subspecies of the honey badger. It was engineered from the same prototype as the South African Ratel. All of these were the Ratel Mk III variant. In 1977, 1 SAI received its first consignment of 42 Ratel IFVs. One was destroyed by the Ratel, which in turn was destroyed by the second tank. The Ratel is a South African infantry fighting vehicle. A few IFVs, such as the Ratel, have been specifically engineered to resist mine explosions. The Ratel ZT-3 also saw limited action against Cuban T-55s during Operation Excite/Hilti.