Black-Footed Cat About

Black-Footed Cat, Felis nigripes, is one of the smallest wild cat in the world. Despite its small size, the cat is very powerful and strong, well-known in local folklore for his courage.

Tawny coat is reddish in color and characterized by dark spots, lines form limbs. The soles of the feet are blacks, hence the name, and so is the tip of the tail. The head is broad and rounded ears, the first one that occurs often large in contrast with the smallBody size. Profile aggressive in hunting and the ears are often flattened as the cat goes after its prey with practically no coverage on the plains to their natural habitat.

Normally, insects, small animals like rodents and birds in this solitary and nocturnal cat adopted. Opportunistic predators, often birds and their young in the nest, eating chicken eggs. Larger prey such as adult cape hares and even the sheep are prey to this youngbrave cat, as it takes the largest animals to hang around his neck and biting through the sacrifice of the carotid artery. Successful hunters from the feet blacks cats usually use the stalk and ambush method, they consume large and often feeds during a hunt, up to a fifth of their body weight. Like some big cats, have a habit of caching and come back later in their prey. The lack of water in their habitats means that cats with their thirst for power off theObtain moisture from their kills. Sometimes, the grass is eaten, perhaps to regulate the digestive system.

Expert climbing and digging, the black-footed cats usually their day to spend time living in caves, termite hills, which bears the name of "Ant Hill Tiger '. At night, move over long distances to cats, arouse strong meowing to communicate with each other - that sounds often compared to the roar of a tiger in the context of adapting to survive.unforgiving plains of Africa and the Black-footed Cat, also known as "little spotted cat" is known, has a limited estrous cycle and pregnancy - the female receptive for only a few hours a day and half a time, and the birth of a small litter of 1-2 young after a gestation period lasts only two months, which means that the cat is vulnerable to a little very short period of predators such as jackals and nightclubs. Young people to grow rapidly, but winsIndependence in an era of almost two years long. Lives of more than ten years held in captivity.

Like its cousin, the cat from the deserts of the north is the Black-footed Cat in arid areas and plains, only in the southern African countries of Botswana, Namibia and South Africa, although sightings have been reported in Mozambique and Zimbabwe. Two subspecies are described by their geographical area:

Felis nigripes nigripes - the northern part of South Africa and Namibia

FelisNigripes Thomas - South Africa and Botswana

Experts are divided on the conservation status of blacks cat feet. There is exact numbers are uncertain in nature.