#Killer kittens: Zoo shares adorable video of ‘world’s deadliest cats’

These kittens kill with both cuteness — and incredible hunting skills.

The San Diego Zoo Safari Park is home to Arwen and Sawyer, black-footed cats with an incredible 60% hunting success rate. On April 28, the Zoo also became home to a new pair of what the Smithsonian hails as “the world’s deadliest super cats” when the feline couple gave birth to a boy, Ryder, and Skyler, a girl.

In a now-viral video posted to the zoo’s YouTube channel July 13, the small but fierce babies are seen eating meat from a masked zookeeper’s tongs.

“This allows us to make sure that the cats don’t associate our hands with food  — so we avoid bites,” the Park’s wildlife care specialist, Chelsea Davis, told the Associated Press. “But also to make sure that we’re far enough distance back that the cats feel comfortable approaching us for their food.”

The breed, named for their black-padded soles and hair, are both among the feline world’s best — and tiniest — killer furballs: Ryder and Skyler, who were born weighing just 3 ounces each and now weigh a pound and a half, won’t weigh more than 2 to 3 pounds once fully mature. This makes black-footed cats — which are native to Botswana, Namibia and South Africa — among the smallest in the world.

Their size does not correlate with their voracious appetite, though: one black-footed cat can consume up to 14 rodents and birds a night, according to the zoo. By comparison, lions only catch their prey 25% of the time, according to BBC Wildlife.

Ryder and Skyler, however, are still nursing and haven’t grown that big a diet yet.

Relax humans: Despite the black-footed cat’s “deadliest” hunting skills, larger animals such as gazelles — and humans — should be able to fend off these cuties, Yahoo! Life reported.

The San Diego Zoo’s new kittens are in good company having been born in quarantine — while humans were sheltering in place this year, zoos reported a coronavirus lockdown baby boom.