I mean, this is straight up not true. The closest truly wild house cat is a weirdo that looks like a lanky house cat, and house cat brains are physically smaller and dumber than wild ones. Also need I point out how cats also have their pug versions complete with health issues normal cats don’t have?
The thing I think is most interesting about cat domestication is that wild cats do not meow and a domesticated cat’s meow is at a similar frequency as the cry of a human baby.
I mean, this is straight up not true. The closest truly wild house cat is a weirdo that looks like a lanky house cat, and house cat brains are physically smaller and dumber than wild ones. Also need I point out how cats also have their pug versions complete with health issues normal cats don’t have?
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-taming-of-the-cat/
TL;DR: You’re not wrong really, but the comic isn’t all that far off either.
The thing I think is most interesting about cat domestication is that wild cats do not meow and a domesticated cat’s meow is at a similar frequency as the cry of a human baby.
Wild cubs/kittens do though.
And dogs geneally make wolf puppy noises.
The real difference is dogs have had about 30,000 more years of domesticated selective breeding.
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I asked my cat and they said they didn’t remember it that way, but refused to say any more. Then ran off into the closet and disappeared.
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Smartest animal I ever met was my indoor/outdoor cat.
Then again she was brindle and looked like a wild cat.
You should go to the zoo
Do you mean so I could meet primates? Our zoos don’t let you do that.
No I mean just for fun
Thanks for the suggestion.
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Cute!
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