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A cat that can let other cats?! Now they know they don't need humans.
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I know it's down to countless generations living alongside humans, but the turnaround time on feral kittens and puppies still amazes me. It seems like it takes them mere minutes to go from "Oh gently caress! A giant is going to eat me, fight for life!" to "Giant is my mom now, will protect and love me."
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Skippy McPants posted:I know it's down to countless generations of living around humans, but the turnaround time on feral kittens and puppies always amazes me. It seems like it takes them only minutes to go from "Oh gently caress! A giant is going to eat me, fight for life!" to "Giant is my mom now, will protect and love me." It's not just dogs and cats; pretty much any social animal will very quickly think "parent" of a human that cares for them. I believe there was some sort of animal behavior study, though, that indicated that dogs think they're smaller humans, and cats think their owners are bigger cats. I can't not like that.
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I bring you something perfect; https://twitter.com/hyhobii/status/936578569030922240
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Skippy McPants posted:I know it's down to countless generations of living alongside humans, but the turnaround time on feral kittens and puppies still amazes me. It seems like it takes them only minutes to go from "Oh gently caress! A giant is going to eat me, fight for life!" to "Giant is my mom now, will protect and love me." Helps a lot that cats basically domesticated themselves in the first place. We didn't seek them out and selectively breed them for docility like we did with dogs and cows and most domestic animals, cats just showed up when humans started to settle down and farm, and both species accepted each other as is on the spot. Humans get cute pets and free, self-replicating pest control for their farms, cats get free and steady supplies of food and warm, safe places to live.
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It's a little more complicated than that, and a lot cooler. Genetic studies suggest domestic cats diverged from African wildcats about ten thousand years ago (or six-seven thousand years before we have archaeological evidence of them as pets). Likely for a long time they were just some odd animal that hung around the grain silo. Dogs had done something some tens of thousands of years earlier, hanging around for the remains of hunts by nomadic humans. However, cats did a great deal more changing in that "hang around their scraps/grain piles" time, having to completely go from a solitary to a social animal. Wildcats are not social. Not even with other wildcats. They meet up to breed, and mothers raise their kittens, but they stay out of each others' territories and do not hang around each other if they can possibly help it. They are very solitary. Feral cats, on the other hand, are highly social, in direct proportion to how plentiful food is. When it's scarce, their behavior is much more like wildcats, but when there's more to go around, they tend to form colonies. Sick or wounded cats will be brought food by cats who are healthier (which is just as much a reason your cat brings you birds and mice as a desire to teach you to hunt). Male cats are less territorial and more inclined to tolerate each others' companies (to the point where urban toms will wait their turn when there's a female in season). These are radical changes in behavior, and they likely happened long before we allowed them into our homes. Instead, it was the massive amount of food in the form of rodents and pests gathered into a small space that our agriculture allowed. This forced a lot of cats into a small space and set up selection pressures that favored cats that were more able to deal with each other, developing new instincts and behaviors in the process. Most of these are repurposed infantile or sexual behaviors (purring, kneading, rubbing faces), but a few are entirely new. For example, there's no other feline that does the "tail is up, I'm happy" thing like housecats do. They didn't just walk up one day and decide to be friends. It was an unintended, but welcome development that arose from the rise of agriculture. It took thousands of years for them to develop to the point where they were ready for domestication, walking into our homes, our lives, and our hearts. It's a really interesting subject.
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JackMann posted:Male cats are less territorial and more inclined to tolerate each others' companies (to the point where urban toms will wait their turn when there's a female in season). I did not know this little factoid. That's bizarre and hilarious.
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Cats are the best.
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RoboRodent posted:I did not know this little factoid. That's bizarre and hilarious. Mind you, in areas where there's less food and the females are spread further out, the toms can be very territorial. Their behavior is very context-driven.
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JackMann posted:Mind you, in areas where there's less food and the females are spread further out, the toms can be very territorial. Their behavior is very context-driven. This is why you should always serve hors d'oeuvres at cat orgies
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So what kind of Fire Pokemon is this.
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Drone posted:So what kind of Fire Pokemon is this. I'm not sure, but I'm sure it evolves into Fire // Fighting.
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Do dogs enjoy swinging, day 4 of clinical study. Hypothesis: yep Method: they swang Conclusion: yeppers
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Tomorrow is my birthday and I'm requesting ALL the calico cats 
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