black-footed cat (Felis nigripes) Brookfield Zoo Brookfield, Illinois www.CZS.org
Date 26 June 2011, 16:19
Source Black-Footed Cat
Author Jonathan Kriz http://www.flickr.com/people/27587002@N07
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Black-Footed_Cat-BrookfielZoo2.jpg
The black-footed cat (Felis nigripes), also called small-spotted cat, is the smallest African cat and endemic to the southwestern arid zone of the southern African subregion. The black-footed cat is endemic to southern Africa, and primarily found in South Africa, Namibia, marginally into Zimbabwe, and likely in extreme southern Angola.
Order: Carnivora
Family: Felidae
Genus: Felis
Species: Felis nigripes Burchell, 1824
