The Black-footed Cat: Africa’s Smallest Wild Cat

The black-footed cat (Felis nigripes) is Africa’s smallest wild cat. It is endemic to southern Africa, where it lives in dry, open savanna, grassland and Karoo semi-desert with shrub and tree cover, except for the driest and sandiest parts of the Namib and Kalahari Deserts. While wild black-footed cats are rather shy and very elusive, this short film shows captive black-footed cats that are used to the presence of humans, which explains why they are quite sociable and could be filmed at close distances with