{"id":9407,"date":"2019-06-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-25T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/black-footed-cat\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T09:14:21","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T07:14:21","slug":"black-footed-cat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/uk\/kruger-national-park-news\/kruger-national-park-animals-guide\/black-footed-cat\/","title":{"rendered":"Black-footed Cat"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Name<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Black-footed Cat [Felis nigripes]<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Appearance<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Black-footed Cats are the smallest of all African cats, sizing to 250mm at shoulder height and weighs at an average 1.5kg. These cats have a silver-yellowish coat with spots all along its body. The underside of the cat is white and sometimes just a lighter shade of the main coat. The Black-footed Cat has distinctive lines that stretch from the side of its eye to under the ear. The soles of its feet are black in colour.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Diet<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Size of the Black-footed Cat restricts its diet to mainly consist out of rodents and small birds. They are also known to prey on cape hare and Korhaan.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Breeding<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Black-footed Cat has a gestation period of about 65 days where in a litter of about 2 kittens are born. They can breed up to 4 times a year. A week after being born, the mother moves the cubs to a new den. \u00a0The kittens are weaned within two months and stay in their mother\u2019s territory for a while after turning into adults.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Behaviour<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Little is known about the Black-footed Cat. They are extremely solitary animals and avoid all contact with animals and people. Unlike domestic kittens, Black-footed kittens develop more quickly because of the dangers around them. Black-footed Cats spend the day resting in burrows made by springhares, aardvarks or porcupines and emerge at sunset to hunt.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Location<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Black-footed Cat is endemic to the dry areas of southern Africa, mainly South Africa, Namibia and southern Botswana.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Study Notes<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Black-footed Cat is the smallest species of cat in Africa.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Name Black-footed Cat [Felis nigripes] Appearance Black-footed Cats are the smallest of all African cats, sizing to 250mm at shoulder height and weighs at an average 1.5kg. These cats have a silver-yellowish coat with spots all along its body. The underside of the cat is white and sometimes just a lighter shade of the main [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[117],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kruger-animal-tour-guide"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}