The black-footed cat (Felis nigripes), also called the small-spotted cat, is the smallest wild cat in Africa, having a head-and-body length of 35β52 cm (14β20 in). Despite its name, only the soles of its feet are black or dark brown. With its bold small spots and stripes on the tawny fur, it is well camouflaged, especially on moonlit nights. It bears black streaks running from the corners of the eyes along the cheeks, and its banded tail has a black tip.
The first black-footed cat known to science was discovered in the northern Karoo of South Africa and described in 1824. It is endemic to the arid steppes and grassland savannas of Southern Africa. It was recorded in southern Botswana, but only a few authentic records exist in Namibia, in southern Angola and in southern Zimbabwe. Due to its restricted distribution, it has been listed as a vulnerable species on the IUCN Red List since 2002. The population is suspected to be declining due to poaching of prey species for human consumption as bushmeat, persecution, traffic accidents, and predation by herding dogs.
The black-footed cat has been studied using radio telemetry since 1993. This research allowed direct observation of its behaviour in its natural habitat. It usually rests in burrows during the day and hunts at night. It moves between 5 and 16 km (3 and 10 mi) on average in search of small rodents and birds. It feeds on 40 different vertebrates and kills up to 14 small animals per night. It can catch birds in flight, jumping up to 1.4 m (5 ft) high, and also attacks mammals and birds much heavier than itself. A female usually gives birth to two kittens during the Southern Hemisphere summer between October and March. They are weaned at the age of two months and become independent after four months of age at the latest.
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What did the vendee royalist expect
That the levee en masse and terror would end if they made it painful enough to enforce.
i mean they were also lead by aristocrats and armed by the british, some of them surely dreamed of tea in versailles with the duke of york and louis xviii (or that their pious manor lord would enjoy such)
A lot of the aristocratic leadership likely did fully intend to use this as a vehicle for restoration and personal advancement. Louis Marie de Lescure absolutely had such designs for one. But when the uprising began, it did as a levy riot, and the leaders of the vendee uprising were not the big wigs of the ancien regime, influential emigres or even noteworthy military minds. They were the leadership that the peasantry in a very Marxian sack-of-potatoes style decision decided to appoint their formal leadership essentially because they were around and the guys who were "Supposed" to be in charge. (Except for figures like Jacques Cathelineau).
We can see this in part in the fact that pretty much all the Vendean generals fucking sucked and got their asses kicked up and down France by people sometimes half their age.
But France spent the next 200 years lionising the Vendeans, so here we are.
it's kind of ironic that these lower nobility who couldn't afford to be emigres were doomed to be brushed aside even if they had won a restoration, but the minor nobles (most pre-revolutionary officers-cadets) who sided with the revolution could actually expect titles and importance way above their station under the Empire.