Playful Baby Pallas's Cats Left Home Alone | Big Cats | BBC Earth

It's morning and the kittens are hungry, but a mother can't hunt with four excitable youngsters tagging along. Today she will have to leave her kittens home alone. Out here in the open there's nowhere to hide. The only thing she can do is to try and blend in. A palace's cat's ears are positioned unusually low on the side of their head and that helps them to keep a low profile. What's more, these cats can flatten their body to look like a rock. She'll need to hunt all day to provide enough for her growing kittens who meanwhile are getting up to all sorts of mischief. Play will help them to hone their own hunting skills. A silver vole finds itself the centre of the kitten's attention. Alas, on these rocks a vole has the upper hand. Fortunately the kittens can rely on their mother to provide. Palace's cats actually do very well here and there could be as many as 10,000 living in these grasslands. Not that it makes them any easier to see.