Series notes and numbers

Published: 9 January 2018

Cheetah’s Speed

Everywhere there are wild cats! That means every continent except Antarctica and Australia.

612 days filming
45 kittens and cubs appear in the series
7 filming firsts
40 days and nights spent trying to capture the penguin/puma interaction
33 species of cat filmed (only 31 made the cut)
20 miles a night - distance walked by the black-footed cat in search of food, the highest recorded for a small cat
The biggest cat in the world (Siberian Tiger) is 200x the size of the smallest (black footed/rusty spotted)
Cats top speed: 110km/h
The black-footed cat, the smallest and deadliest cat in Africa, makes around five kills per night, compared the a lion pride which makes one kill a week
32,525 olive ridley turtles came ashore during Big Cats’ jaguar shoot
40 days spent on the trail of the Canada lynx
4,270m altitude of the highest village on Earth, and Big Cats base camp to film the snow leopard
100 - approximate number of servals living around Africa’s biggest industrial complex