Although tigers and cheetahs may be the most powerful and fastest cats around, this diminutive cousin has them beat when it ...

Adorably big-eyed and smaller than a house cat, black-footed cats are far more successful at hunting than lions. They can jump up to five feet in the air and 6½ feet in distance; they kill eight ...

Utah’s Hogle Zoo welcomed an eight-month-old black-footed cat, Gaia, who is considered to ... its amazing survival abilities — recording a hunting success rate of 60%, according to Smithsonian ...

Cisneros quips, noting that most carnivores have a 25% success rate when hunting. Black-footed cats, on the other hand? “They’re successful (more than) 60% of the time,” he says.

Black-footed cats are the smallest species of wild cat ... to as “ant-hill tigers” in the Afrikaans language. With a 60% hunting success rate, black-foot cats are considered to be one of ...

(For comparison, big cats have a hunting success rate of around 25 percent, reports the Salt Lake Tribune’s Jordan Miller.) But black-footed cats are in trouble—and that’s where Gaia comes in.

the black-footed cats tend to disappear into the tall grasses of the African savannah, making its exploits difficult to track via camera," Smithsonian magazine reported. Hunting in the brush ...

They have a hunting success rate of 60 percent outpacing bigger cats who have a 20 percent hunting rate. Part of the Black-footed’s success in hunting is their sharp night vision. Sporting the largest ...

Black-footed cats hunt mostly at night, taking advantage of their small size to stalk prey in the tall grass. Matt Lee Unsplash Don’t let her tiny size or “adorable” looks fool you — Gaia ...

Black-footed cats are considered the deadliest cats in the world — with a hunting success rate of over 60%, compared to the 25% success rate of their big-cat relatives, Cisneros said.