{"id":149,"date":"2026-07-28T10:50:32","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T10:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webmediamall.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/28\/unicorn778-africas-smallest-wildcat-found-using-abandoned-rodent-burrows-to-raise-kittens-peluang-terburuk-saat-bermain-slot-online\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T10:50:32","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T10:50:32","slug":"unicorn778-africas-smallest-wildcat-found-using-abandoned-rodent-burrows-to-raise-kittens-peluang-terburuk-saat-bermain-slot-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webmediamall.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/28\/unicorn778-africas-smallest-wildcat-found-using-abandoned-rodent-burrows-to-raise-kittens-peluang-terburuk-saat-bermain-slot-online\/","title":{"rendered":"UNICORN778 Africa\u2019s smallest wildcat found using abandoned rodent burrows to raise kittens Peluang Terburuk Saat Bermain Slot Online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imgs.mongabay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2026\/02\/09110116\/black-footed-cat--768x512.jpg\" \/><br \/>Africa&#8217;s smallest wildcat uses abandoned springhare burrows to raise its kittens, according to new research. There are fewer than 10,000 black-footed cats (Felis nigripes) left in the wild and studies on these nocturnal animals are rare. To learn more about them, a team of researchers tracked five female black-footed cats (Felis nigripes) with radio collars and scanned more than 50 burrows in southern Namibia between 2020-21. The research found that 98% of the dens used by the cats had originally been dug, then abandoned, by springhares (Pedetes capensis), an endemic rodent which looks like a cross between a small kangaroo and a rabbit. The cats depend on springhares to provide the underground dens where the felines raise their kittens for the first six to seven weeks of life.\u00a0 &#8220;I can&#8217;t prove black-footed cats would disappear without springhares, but at this site they would be much more vulnerable,\u201d Harold Brindley, the study\u2019s lead author and a researcher at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, told Mongabay contributor Mar\u00eda de los \u00c1ngeles Orfila. F. nigripes in a springhare burrow in southern Namibia. Image courtesy of Harold Brindley. Researchers used laser-based, remote-sensing technology to measure tunnel dimensions and determine which species created them. The cats selected burrows with tunnel entrances between 10 and 27 centimeters (4 and 11 inches) in diameter. They ignored smaller rodent holes and larger aardvark or porcupine burrows. After the kittens reached about seven weeks of age, mothers typically transitioned from staying in one location for nearly a&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/news.mongabay.com\/short-article\/2026\/07\/africas-smallest-wildcat-found-using-abandoned-rodent-burrows-to-raise-kittens\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">Mongabay<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa&#8217;s smallest wildcat uses abandoned springhare burrows to raise its kittens, according to new research&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":150,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[469,466,12,471,473,14,9,472,470,11,13,467,10,2,468],"class_list":["post-149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-unicorn778","tag-abandoned","tag-africas","tag-bermain","tag-burrows","tag-kittens","tag-online","tag-peluang","tag-raise","tag-rodent","tag-saat","tag-slot","tag-smallest","tag-terburuk","tag-unicorn778","tag-wildcat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webmediamall.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webmediamall.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webmediamall.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webmediamall.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webmediamall.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/webmediamall.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webmediamall.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webmediamall.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webmediamall.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webmediamall.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}