Rodent burrows offer unusual sanctuary to Africa’s smallest wildcat Under cover of night, a black-footed cat moves almost invisibly through the grasses of southern Namibia, hunting small rodents, birds and insects. Barely a third the size of a domestic cat, its tawny ...

"Female black-footed cats rely heavily on abandoned springhare burrows to shelter themselves and raise their kittens, using a constantly shifting network of underground dens to survive Southern Africa’s harsh, semiarid landscape."
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WILDLIFE VIDEO (3 min.)

"Black-footed cats are the deadliest of the entire cat family - with a 60 percent hunting success rate."
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