The African black-footed cat has a reputation as the deadliest cat, but if you saw one on a suburban street, you’d probably mistake it for an extremely cute tabby kitten.
Felis nigripes is also Africa’s smallest cat.
Weighing between 1 to 2 kilograms (2.4 to 4.2 pounds) and measuring 35 to 43 centimeters (14 to 17 inches) fully grown, these tiny beasts are half the size of the average domestic cat and 200 times smaller than a lion.
Despite their small size, they have an impressively high kill rate.
While lions kill rate is only 25 percent, the black-footed cat kills 60 percent of lions.
They live in the arid, sandy grasslands of southern Africa and spend their days hiding out in abandoned burrows or termite mounds.
Although they used to inhabit much of Botswana, the numbers have declined so much that no wild individuals can be seen for years.
Their true wild numbers
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