Last week, we met the tiny black-footed cat from Africa.
It shares the world record for diminutiveness with —
- Asia’s rusty-spotted cat:
https://youtu.be/gNvMV6kbeAU&rel=0
It’s difficult to find videos of Rusty out in the wild.
Perhaps you’ve seen this, by the BBC? (I think they used a very young kitten — adults are bigger than a leaf!)
https://youtu.be/W86cTIoMv2U&rel=0
- South America’s guiña, or kodkod:
https://youtu.be/YbUNmnzKYU0&rel=0
These little cats are rare, and that video is the longest sighting I’ve seen so far. The little felid is feisty, just like the black-footed and rusty-spotted cats — look how it arches its back and hops sideways while approaching the photographer!
Here’s a bonus: my favorite guiña/kodkod video. There are closeups of the cute little face, and it’s melanistic: a common occurrence in kodkods and their neighbor, Geoffroy’s cat.
I can’t translate the narration, and there’s no dramatic action sequence, but that wee cat is enjoying the HECK out of the fish.
https://youtu.be/R6KmhHS3T_o&rel=0
“Nomnomnomnomnom…kthxbai!”
Featured image:
- Guiña: Jim Sanderson, via Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Rusty-spotted cat: Jiri Vaclavek, Shutterstock.
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