The Evolution of the Cat

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[@nogo6880]

Woof

[@jeffslade1892]

A domestic cat can bark. It's more like a fox bark but it's a bark. An embarrassment is the cat actually and deliberately saying, "me-yow". Or the dog looking up at you and quietly pronouncing, "w-oof".

[@sabrecatsmiladon7380]

**Fuzzes up and hisses!**

[@jeffslade1892]

@@sabrecatsmiladon7380 no need when you (the cat) have a dog big enough to ride into battle on protecting you. "I've got a Donk"

[@CacomixtleTheCivet]

Meow!

[@everyone5150]

Get outta here! 😹

[@24tommyst]

My cat made me watch this. She said it's a very important video.

[@jacked_king]

I tried to show my cat this video and he didn't even care.

[@REHANKHAN-en5zn]

They are very persuasive

[@Peekaboo-Kitty]

Your Cat is very wise!

[@AsadAli-jc5tg]

Cats can't talk bro

[@christinafidance340]

I’m watching with all 3 of my kitties!

[@LimeyLassen]

I find it interesting that a wolf and dog are easy to distinguish but a wild cat is just a cat. Ten thousand years of domestication and they've hardly changed at all.

[@neutronalchemist3241]

Infact that led to some scientist to argue that cats had not really been domesticated. Simply the bravest samples "selected themself" deciding to live close to an animal far bigger than them. To domesticate a species, humans need to control it's reproduction and, with cats, especially in a rural environment, that's really hard to do since, if females are not completely segregated, they tend to breed with multiple males wherever they want, so hindering any effort to selective breeeding.

[@wolfie1703]

I disagree. Their physical shape hasn't changed much, but they have pretty colours unlike wildcats. Wildcats who are taken in can't really be turned super friendly and are more unpredictable than something like a wolfdog.

[@doublemosasaur5091]

Cats didnt get domesticated, or maybe not in the same way as dogs i think. Theyre also solitary animals so maybe thats the reason.

[@edwinreveron870]

I guess you never seen any designer cats breed...

[@yingle6027]

Might be because almost all dog breeds were bred for some sort of job or task. While Cats have always just been vermin controllers?

[@uncommonsense6445]

my uncle who lives in a village in India told me about his old pet cat that was very 'big and fat'. I thought maybe just an obese chonker or sum. BUT NO, He had a whole a*s caracal as a pet. apparently he found a lonely kitten when he was out watering his fields and took it home with him. obviously they later understood that it wasn't an 'ordinary' cat, but he was friendly and apparently helped him take care of other animals as well. He died when i was 2 so never got a chance of meeting him but wow, i wished i could've met Sheru (it means lion in hindi, well said in a cooing way)

[@edwinreveron870]

Caracals are slim build, it sounds like your uncle was overfeeding it....

[@SubwayBrat]

@@edwinreveron870 compared to a normal cat you could definitely call it big atleast.

[@edwinreveron870]

@@SubwayBrat -Yeah, but caracals are really medium size cats...

[@SubwayBrat]

@@edwinreveron870 I'm surprised by that because they look massive in pictures! I've never seen them irl though

[@edwinreveron870]

@@SubwayBrat -Males get right around 40 lbs on average, just slightly heavier than Maine Coon...

[@wendybutler1681]

I really like cats. I've lived with some very goofy ones in my time. My son was always glad our Molly wasn't any bigger than she was because she was more strict about his bedtime than I was. He hed visions of himself dangling from her mouth by the scruff of his neck as she carried him off to their bed. I say 'their' bed. She slept with him every night no.matter how tangled up the covers or how squished she got. He was her boy. She'd fuss if I tried to pick her up or give her cuddles. If he'd been gone a couple weeks she'd run across my lap. She wouldn't cuddle or linger, tho. He brother was a love hound. Thought he was a puppy his whole life. Those were my last due to worsening asthma. I'm left with wonderful memories of those two silly, funny and smart cats. It was a privilege being their caretakers. So loved!

[@RingsLoreMaster]

That is so beautiful and I am heartened that you have such wonderful memories.

[@alanadavis8568]

The kitten licking its paw at the end was adorable. A video on corvids would be lovely maybe.

[@stemill1569]

so true

[@darko714]

As if we don’t have enough cat videos.

[@clicheguevara5282]

Corvids are my favorite animals after cats. Their intelligence blows my mind.

[@war_saw]

One of my favorite animals/birds are corvids, I would love a video on them.

[@AsadAli-jc5tg]

Or Covid?

[@smavi4133]

2:30 “Cat Gap” for 7 million years - vanishing for a prolonged period of time and reappearing out of fkn nowhere. The most cat thing I’ve ever heard.

[@pickles3128]

Cat gap! I guess you could say, paleontologically speaking, they just took more of a... Cat nap?

[@glorbojibbins2485]

My half Bengal cat Francis said that this video was very insightful and respectful to his people 🐈

[@kimberlyperrotis8962]

Felidae - the most beautiful animals on earth.

[@Raptorman0909]

All cats are beautiful, with the possible exception of Lions, or at least the adult male Lion, particularly when the mane is all matted from fighting. Other than them pretty much all other cats are among the most beautiful of all creatures. Foxes are beautiful as are Wolves and many species of birds, but the only real competitor to cats for beauty is the human female.

[@ricestrange]

The Pallas's cat

[@klyzer5725]

@@Raptorman0909 lions are majestic

[@Raptorman0909]

@@klyzer5725 They can be, but adult male Lions often have a scraggly look about them with matted manes etc. Other cats seem to avoid that matted look so even after a hunt or fight they look amazing. Also, a Lion that is in a zoo and well cared for can be extremely majestic, that isn't normal for them though...

[@klyzer5725]

@@Raptorman0909 that's just subjective lions are majestic

[@Master_of_Critique]

The domestic cat has the biggest eyes of any mammal relative to their head. That’s why they’re so incredibly cute

[@sm3gma995]

I'm pretty sure there's a lot of animals with bigger eyes relative to their heads than a cat

[@Master_of_Critique]

@@sm3gma995 my bad, allow me to correct myself. Of any *mammal

[@sm3gma995]

@@Master_of_Critique I'm pretty sure that is also not the case lol

[@esbeng.s.a9761]

@@sm3gma995 then come with examples

[@sm3gma995]

@@esbeng.s.a9761 primates like the tarsiers, lemurs, and the slow loris

[@JJ-oq3tz]

Cats are one of the most recognized animals in the world. We all love cats both big and small🐱🐈

[@leam89]

Dogs disagree

[@Sawrattan]

@@leam89 I've always thought if there were a contest between cats and dogs, hyenas should referee.

[@leam89]

@@Sawrattan hyenas are more closely related to cats so seems unfair lol

[@dougllaz6267]

@@leam89 both are equal

[@dougllaz6267]

@@leam89 evolution is Fake, and science is not exact, hyenas are 100% canines/dogs

[@oldcowbb]

i have unhealthy urge to pet every cat i see on screen

[@Mortablunt]

One day it will cost me a hand and I will be content for the trade.

[@americangirl6654]

Lol, me too. Must pet them all!

[@RingsLoreMaster]

I especially want to run my hands through the lion's mane. No. Seriously. First though I want to give it a good shampoo and rinse

[@GenericDan]

@@RingsLoreMaster I don't groom animals, but that would seem like an absolute pain to wash.

[@ManiacX1999]

11:32 My man really put in an Elden Ring spoiler in his educational video

[@genghiskhan6809]

Once I saw that, I knew that too was a man of culture like us.

[@glamazon6172]

As someone who took Latin for three years in high school, I commend your effortless annunciation of all this nomenclature!

[@thomashenebry8269]

It's a voice synthesizer.

[@BasedRedemption]

ok, good job

[@astridvvv9662]

I'm a huge animal lover, all animals. But I am especially in love with cats. All of them. For this reason I do know about many of the lesser known varieties. But I've never heard of a kodkod until this video. When I looked it up on Google images and saw it I shouted (in the most obnoxious baby voice) "oh godddd!!" They are FUCKING PRECIOUS AS FUCK.

[@AsadAli-jc5tg]

Lol! Whyyy????

[@lavonsense1]

Funny thing is….. they couldn’t care les about you.

[@snailhat2945]

@@lavonsense1 to be honest what the fuck is your deal man

[@libertarianassfuck7635]

Agreed, my dear. 😎

[@Squid8389]

Thanks for covering the evolutionary history of our kind

[@Capt.Carrick]

He did!?, idk about that but the video about conflict between gorillas and chimpanzees was really informative and unique to his channel.

[@Vexeov]

@@Capt.Carrick i think he was talking about him being a cat, and his recolored garfield profile picture

[@erstwhilegrubstake]

Stop being so cute Nermal.

[@Capt.Carrick]

@@Vexeov •O•

[@chimpazoo1143]

I'm going go send you to Abu Dhabi

[@tonymagrogan]

Our cats absolutely loved this video. Even better than those Cat TV videos with birds!

[@raulguallpa8688]

From tree dwellers to house rulers

[@NeutroniousTemp]

just like primates/humans

[@kerryberger985]

Outstanding. I've always been interested in cats and this video has helped to expand my understanding of the breeds and the lineage of the various cats. Thank you.

[@indyreno2933]

Lynxes did not originate from North America, they actually originated from Western Europe, the most primitive living lynx species is actually the Iberian Lynx (Lynx pardinus), while the Eurasian Lynx (Lynx lynx) is actually more closely related to both the Canada Lynx (Lynx canadensis) and Bobcat (Lynx rufus) than to the iberian lynx, Lynxes are one of the most basal extant genera of small cats within the subtribe Lyncina, which groups the lynxes with other fairly similar cat genera such as Otocolobus, Pardofelis, Badiofelis, Catopuma, Leptailurus, Caracal, and Profelis, within the subtribe Lyncina, Otocolobus (Manuls) is the most basal extant genus.

[@CreatureDomain]

He said they migrated to North America.

[@JohnDrummondPhoto]

@@CreatureDomain no, go to 8:35. The narrator said the lynx lineage originated in North America, then spread to Eurasia where later forms evolved.

[@neoqwerty]

So the iberian lynx is like the snow leopard of lynxes? That's cool!

[@CreatureDomain]

@@JohnDrummondPhoto okay

[@neutronalchemist3241]

Yeah. The ancestor of modern lynxes, the Lynx Issiodorensis, evolved in Europe and Asia and only later migrated to America.

[@dinohall2595]

Watching this before the premiere of "The Evolution of the Dog" on this channel later today. I have the (impossible) desire to know the entire evolutionary history of life on Earth across all levels of taxonomy (not really doable when some phylogenies are still in flux), and this channel helps me a lot with that goal.

[@whateverrrrrr123]

Cats and Eagles are the most beautiful animals for me

[@saharshmishra9982]

for me the most beautiful animal is a female human 😂😂

[@amandaamanda5398]

"Rough tongue to extract meat from prey" with picture showing a cat licking a human 🤣

[@erstwhilegrubstake]

I was waiting for the manul cat to appear, I was not disappointed. The scientific name for the manul is floofus maximus.

[@YUN6_V3NUZ]

FLOOFUS MAXIMUS I LOVE IT

[@wouter.de.ruiter]

My cat is a scarred tom with torn ears and one missing front paw. He still manages to absolutely rule every neighbourhood we move to. He's named "Ivan the Terrible". His scientific name is Felis Domesticus Terriblis

[@michaelingertson337]

I just discovered this channel and I am impressed by the density of factual information and evidence for rival hypotheses. You have obviously done your research and your audience definitely benefits. Thank you. I have subscribed.

[@justinraposo3055]

Would be very interested in seeing a video on solenodons or even venomous mammals in general. Keep up the great work!

[@Fajman.personal]

Great and interesting video! I am also the artist behind that Enhydrocyon portrait, glad it's getting some use!

[@davidguy209]

A little surprised there was no mention of the Siamese, and hairless varieties - they're just so different! Enjoyed the video 😀

[@pailhorsegaming6762]

As someone who loves my fur baby far too much. I’m very excited for this video

[@slomari]

I always thought hyenas were more related to canines but i guess it makes more sense from them to be more closely related to felines

[@mammadingo9165]

Hyenas are incredible and the variety and difference between spotted hyena and striped ect fascinating.

[@hkschubert9938]

A very thorough and beautiful summary of cat evolution and differentiation. I love watching this video over and over again. Thank you!

[@mezzoca8110]

Really detailed and interesting intelligent dialogue, brilliant video too …. Great work!

[@jasminevine6444]

my cat was very interested. thank you.

[@BioniclesaurKing4t2]

3:49 "…rapidly spread and diversified into many different branches of cats. Psuedaelurus is notab-Jerry, this shot goes later."

[@Kristy_cat]

I didn’t know there were so many adorable cats to love!! 😻😻😻

[@picksalot1]

This is the first of your videos I think I've seen. It is excellent, and packed with interesting information. I like that you also use the Latin names of the different species. I'd like to suggest that you add a list of common Latin suffixes and words used in the specie names, to help some of your viewers get the most out of the videos. Thanks

[@brightphoebus]

Oh so many cats! Many breeds I had not heard of before. WOnderful!

[@gudduentertains]

But why are they so cute?

[@addnamere1187]

I don't even own a cat, but one strolled into my place and put this on before peeing on the sofa and walking out.

[@Gamerafighter76]

Both cats and dogs have their awesome qualities.

[@maidsua4208]

It came from a true animal lover

[@FitterCarrion]

Our generation is getting all over the media and creating great content such as this, good work and keep going!

[@glamazon6172]

6:32 Who else thought this was a still image for a second?

[@oiartsun]

Yep, same here

[@shatnermohanty6678]

Good observation 👀

[@pauliether.c.guy.3349]

God I absolutely love cats. They’re like Nature’s Ninjas they see something they want they waste no time getting ya in m

[@joeshmoe8345]

A super cool post, we do appreciate you for sharing it. Thanks a bunch Big Dog

[@lafunk1978]

The supreme land predators.

[@RingsLoreMaster]

After Homo sapien.

[@Astro_Crunch]

Excellent video. Would love to see more of your artistic renditions for visual aids in the future.

[@elizabethcorwin-sapaugh3470]

HOW COULD YOU ! the final and most important evolution of cats to date, is their take over of the Internet!

[@biggerandbetterthings7222]

Awe cats! so many cats, take a shot everytime he says CAT! aweee.. Hail the kitty cat!

[@Solomon0424]

Thanks for posting this on my birthday month!

[@drimachuck]

11:04 "even managed to hybridise" makes it sound like they did it on their own accord and not because humans wanna breed designer animals. Anyway, the savannah in particular boggles me. Like, who thought breeding their domestic cat with an mf serval was a good idea?

[@cheetahquan]

But he did say they were creepy. I give him credit for saying that because everyone normally glorifies and praise exotic hybrids.

[@drimachuck]

@@cheetahquan yeah fair enough

[@Sawrattan]

I really feel sorry for cats (and dogs) that endure hybrid engineering for looks, like cats with servals, or toy dogs with massive dogs. The only hybrid I can accept as natural is domestic cat with Scottish/African wild cat, although I've heard the kittens are often difficult to tame.

[@JonFrumTheFirst]

It makes sense if you recognize that many/most closely related species can't hybridize. So if he meant it figuratively, as in 'their genetics were close enough to produce viable offspring,' then it works. Many species that could theoretically hybridize don't, because they never meet in the wild. If their ranges change for purely natural reasons and start overlapping, they could, then, 'manage' to hybridize naturally. Or, as you say, people could put them together to produce designer animals to sell.

[@drswag0076]

the domestic cat is further categorized into a multitude of breeds. from the common Tabby to the short-faced Persian, to the hairless Sphinx and Cornish Rex.

[@ultrademigod]

Those are artificial categories though, more for us than them, as I suspect they don't even notice the differences among themselves.

[@drswag0076]

@@ultrademigod but still they all differ.

[@Dr.IanPlect]

@@ultrademigod What a stupid comment; ALL of taxonomy is for our benefit, ffs.

[@ElaineOddsoxxx1]

Just found your channel, brilliant vids! Thanx!

[@thethirdjegs]

feline taxonomy has changed so much since i first learned of it >20 years ago

[@dougllaz6267]

E é por isso que não se deve dar muita CREDIBILIDADE a ciência, aos cientistas e biólogos, muitas coisas que eles falam são falsas ou mentiras

[@Snarge22]

Wow, I had no idea there were that many cant's out in the wild. Great video!

[@takeiteasy6708]

The cheetah probably didn’t get retractable claws because it always had its claws out when running. So it just evolved to always have them out for convenience. What do y’all think ?

[@anthonycappuccio6820]

It had them but the Cheetah family evolved to not have them so it could run better

[@indyreno2933]

There is no cheetah family, cheetahs are cats, a cheetah is any cat that belongs to the genus Acinonyx, there are only two living cheetah species, the African Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) and the Asiatic Cheetah (Acinonyx venaticus), they are the most basal living genus within the subtribe Acinonychina of the tribe Pantherini within the subfamily Felinae, which is the only extant subfamily of the family Felidae.

[@richardeast3328]

A cat’s claws are actually protractible, the cat has to extend them out of the paw. At a resting state, the claws are contained inside the paw.

[@marcushendriksen8415]

@@richardeast3328 ah but once extended, can or can not the cat retract them? I rest my case

[@xkinsey3831]

@@marcushendriksen8415 Whether they are retractable or protractible would be based on where the claw sits in its resting state, which would be inside the paw, so that would make them protractable.

[@RonnieMyers777]

As a cat, I cant explain how much I appreciate this

[@kimbratton9620]

Great information on one of my favorite animals!🐱

[@tabbytabster]

as a cat lover i never knew how big the cat family was. all i knew was 'cat' and 'cat-like'

[@travismcnamara8919]

I'd love to see one on raccoons and their kin. Fascinating animals that don't get the love they deserve imo.

[@indyreno2933]

The family Procyonidae is restricted to only the North American genera, Bassariscus and Procyon are the only two extant genera within Procyonidae, the genera native to Eurasia and South America are all relocated to the families Ailuridae and Nasuidae respectively, Ailuridae contains one surviving genus being Ailurus, which contains only one extant species being the Red Panda (Ailurus fulgens), Nasuidae contains four extant genera, Potos which includes one extant species being the Kinkajou (Potos flavus), Bassaricyon which includes four species being the Olinguito (Bassaricyon neblina), the Northern Olingo (Bassaricyon gabbii), the Eastern Lowland Olingo (Bassaricyon alleni), and the Western Lowland Olingo (Bassaricyon medius), Nasuella which includes two species being the Eastern Mountain Coati (Nasuella meridensis) and the Western Mountain Coati (Nasuella olivacea), and Nasua which includes three species being the Lowland Coati (Nasua nasua), the White-Nosed Coati (Nasua narica), and the Cozumel Coati (Nasua nelsoni), Ailuridae contains many extinct genera such as Stromeriella, Broiliana, Angustictis, Protursus, Simocyon, and Magerictis, Nasuidae contains many extinct genera such as Tetraprothomo, Parahyaenodon, Brachynasua, Pachynasua, Amphinasua, Cynonasua (sometimes Cyonasua), and Chapalmalania, most genera within the family Procyonidae are entirely extinct examples being the genera Amphictis, Actiocyon, Alopecocyon, Pristinailurus, Parailurus, Bassaricyonoides, Arctonasua, Edaphocyon, Myxophagus, Paranasua, Parapotos, Probassariscus, and Protoprocyon all of which are endemic to only North America, all these three extant families along with Mephitidae (Skunks and Stink Badgers) are part of the superfamily Procyonoidea, within this superfamily, Mephitidae is the most basal to diverge, the namesake family Procyonidae is only more derived than Mephitidae but is basal to both Ailuridae and Nasuidae.

[@kylemendoza8860]

Here it is. Raccoons were meant to be the next dominant species after humans. A million years after humans. The world would be inhabited by an intelligent race of raccoons.

[@ericdickerson3273]

@@indyreno2933 booooooooo. You just listed 30 species names and no information to make any of it interesting. Leave it to the channel. Again…boooooooo

[@ericdickerson3273]

@@indyreno2933 sorry, I was incorrect, you listed over 51 random species names lol I hope you copy pasted and didn’t spend all that time typing out all of those names no one wants to read lol

[@EnneaIsInterested]

@@kylemendoza8860 I want us to give raccoons opposable thumbs, and send out self-replicating terraforming probes that deposit upgraded raccoons instead of primates, seems like we'd create some fascinating radiations.

[@samassonz]

ur content is on point keep it comin

[@jeffslade1892]

Dogs, unsurprisingly, have excellent hearing. They also have a complex vocal system, for example producing two grating off-key notes simultaneously, a dyad, when they howl (they're far from tone-deaf, they do it on purpose) - they can imitate a range of sounds, not just barks and growls but whistles, whines and grunts. Which is why we whistle to call a dog, dogs can whistle to call too. But hearing the dog trying to imitate the cat's purr with his V8 growl is just embarrassing.

[@4FYTfa8EjYHNXjChe8xs7xmC5pNEtz]

I used to whistle my Siamese cat home every evening. I let him play in the woods during the day, but I didn't want him wandering around outside at night. No matter how far away he was, he always started back immediately when he heard me whistle. Cats are supposed to be delicate and agile, and I guess he was when he wanted to be, but coming home at night it sounded like something the size of a bear was crashing through the bushes toward me. 😂

[@SassyShogun]

Felines>Canines 🦁👑

[@miguelvargasaguilar3867]

evolution is a very fascinating topic 😎👍🦖🦕

[@dougllaz6267]

Evolution is Fake, GOD/JESUS is the creator of all the animals, evolution is a lie

[@metalman4393]

Thank you, that was very informational!

[@silverhowl9331]

I just have one word to say to all of these: KITTY!!

[@hkschubert9938]

I've often wondered about the evolutionary history of the cat family. This video is a marvelous summary. It also seems like monkeys and apes evolved from this early tree dwelling cat ancestor. Hence cats dogs and humans also have similar teeth.

[@user-wl4qs8xl3r]

Yep! You got it :)

[@Ceerads]

I doubt that.

[@hkschubert9938]

@@Ceerads do you have any basis for your doubts?

[@Ceerads]

@@hkschubert9938 Just info I’ve picked up in my life. I just googled: “Cats and dogs are both in the Carnivora order, but their last common ancestor lived about 42 million years ago. Since then they have diverged into feliforms (cats, hyenas and mongooses) and caniforms - a more diverse group that includes raccoons and walruses, as well as dogs.” Of course, this and other info doesn’t mean you’re wrong, but I think the two groups aren’t very closely related.

[@hkschubert9938]

@@Ceerads what you just stated does not support you original statement. So you have no support. So you're just blindly guessing without support.

[@angryatheist]

Fun fact people only think the domesticated cat was domesticated by us , it’s disputed by feline scholars that say cats domesticated us

[@tjsogmc]

I agree with the theory that cats are the only animals to have domesticated humans.

[@mirrorblue100]

Great program - thanks.

[@MuscleBandit]

I have a half tabby half Bengal, it's interesting to see a bit about her lineage as I often look at her sleeping and wonder where she comes from in history. She's beautiful and not just because she's mine. If she was a human she'd be a cross between Alicia Silverstone and CAT Dennings !

[@DragonFae16]

Please do the evolution of some Australian marsupial lineages.

[@indyreno2933]

The genus Leopardus contains only two extant species, the Ocelot (Leopardus pardalis) and Margay (Leopardus wiedii) while the other six extant species would be placed within only two distinct genera, Oreailurus for both the andean mountain cat and pampas cat and Oncifelis for the other four species collectively known as tiger cats, therefore the scientific names of these other cat species would be Oncifelis tigrinus (Oncilla), Oncifelis guigna (Kodkod), Oncifelis guttulus (Southern Tiger Cat), Oncifelis geoffroyi (Geoffroy's Cat), Oreailurus jacobita (Andean Mountain Cat), and Oreailurus colocola (Pampas Cat).

[@Coelacanth_yes]

Bro just shut up

[@Dr.IanPlect]

WRONG again, Reno. As usual, your claimed taxonomy is a mess.

[@dinohall2595]

@@Dr.IanPlect Does he do this on every video? I've seen other Indy Reno comments and it seems like he just wants to flex on how smart he is rather than actually comment anything about the video itself.

[@Dr.IanPlect]

@@dinohall2595 Yes, he has a habit doing the following on wildlife videos; - posting obsolete/inaccurate/flawed taxonomy - stubbornly insisting that said taxonomy is correct - ignores corrections and posts even more nonsense anyway - it does seem to be about showing off 'knowledge' -------------- I'm a PhD zoologist, Reno knows me by other names (this is a new account). I've been pointing out his nonsense for years. Just today on another video I corrected his comment asserting; - giant pandas are not bears - bears are closer to dogs than pinnipeds - bears, dogs and pinnipeds are closer to each other than to mustelids Sometimes I go through his nonsense and explain at length why it's wrong, other times (as my first comment here) I don't have that energy! As a professional zoologist, it hurts to see the kind of misinformation he dumps.

[@dinohall2595]

@@Dr.IanPlect That's what I thought. It's interesting how the more smug and confident a commenter is about their own intelligence, the more likely they are to be wrong.

[@iwanvandenberge5994]

Keep up the good work loved the video

[@Mr.M.R]

imma sub to you. I love the concept of your channel. I really looked for something like that.

[@salasrcp90]

I’m a fan of cats 🐈

[@SA77888]

Great little mini documentary.

[@frankiec10]

man i love these vids

[@LazyLizard2]

Can you spent more time on lesser known species? For example here smaller cat species are unknown to me, so I would like to hear more information about them. In any case great video 👌

[@maozilla9149]

Good show

[@elenafoleyfoley168]

Amazing animals, great information I did not know, Thankyou 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@jeffbrunswick5511]

Wow, that was amazing. World class. If the BBC made that, it would take them 5 years, a budget of 5 million USD and half the info would be wrong. Good job friend. 👍

[@Aliandrin]

If you raise up a big cat and socialise it, it will purr for you.

[@ShantiForever]

I love cats!

[@williamblansett5786]

Another excellent video.

[@ozzielinkin]

lots of info in this video . thx for making it .

[@hectormunoz6052]

Cats are cool !

[@Izzy-qf1do]

Cat life.

[@diontaedaughtry974]

Very insightful and informative 🐈🐅🐆 👍👍

[@saharshmishra9982]

Watching this video with my cat in my lap🐈🐾

[@fuckthishandlesystem]

My cat walked in and screamed at me while I was watching this video

[@johnwiles4391]

While this is very much an oversimplification, it strikes me that the main difference between cats and dogs is that while cats have perfected a form (phenotype) for carnivory, dogs have preserved a latent genotype that provides for a wide variety of phenotypes. This is patently obvious to even untrained observers in that cats are somewhat 'scale independent' such that cats of any size are quite similar in body plan, whereas dogs (as exemplified in domestic breeds) manifest considerable variety of form. Thus it seems cats are able to penetrate and dominate ecosystems yet their dominance is predicated on high specialization for carnivory and is thus brittle in the long term while dogs are always waiting in the wings to rapidly adopt a new form which can avail itself of new opportunities. I don't know exactly how this relates but I don't know of any cat that has ever specialized or succeeded in the 'persistence pursuit predator' niche which seems to be the bailiwick of most modern dogs.

[@Burt1038]

TBH it seems to me that "persistence pursuit predator" is not really a niche so much as a sub-optimal strategy born of necessity. Is there any scenario where it makes MORE sense to waste tremendous amounts of energy to tackle your meal? Canines do it because they have no other choice and are stuck in a local evolutionary plateau (absent human efforts of course)

[@1man1bike1road]

dog variety are due to humans messing with them surely

[@robertmiller9735]

@@1man1bike1road Yes. The difference, I think, is that while dogs have filled many specialized roles, cats only have two: pest control, and being adorable.

[@johnwiles4391]

@@Burt1038 Don't tell dogs how to do their job!

[@johnwiles4391]

@@1man1bike1road As I said, 'exemplified'. Humans couldn't have bred all these forms without latent genetic potential.

[@hotshot6923]

Whatever sound is in the background (its barely audible) made my dog sit up and look for it

[@MonkeyBunny7721]

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[@birdcanart7212]

very cool!!! kitty cats!!!!

[@Scribe13013]

Why are they all cute tho?

[@paulforder591]

Meow! An informative mini--doc about feline evolution. Thanks for posting this! 😺😸🐈🐈🐆

[@Momoe_Nagisa]

How creative are people now day that we named an animal "cat cat"

[@zy9662]

Why domestic dogs are so much morphologically diverse than domestic cats? One factor should be that dogs were breed for certain particular roles, but that may not be the whole story, maybe dogs have intrinsically more genetic plasticity than cats

[@bernardoneves7455]

No, it's because of the reasons they were domesticated. Dogs were bred for many purposes for example: pugs were bred for being royal lap dogs of Chinese emperors whilst German shepherds are guard dogs with strong bodies. Se they look different cuz they are not supposed to do the same thing, also they had more time Cats were simply pest control and nothing else, and it was much more recent than dogs, maybe in the future we will have tiger sized cats just like how we have Dire Wolf sized dogs. So it's a combination of being bred for different things and this breeding starting a long time ago.

[@thegameranch5935]

@@bernardoneves7455 I doubt that people didn’t create a cat breed that exists for cosmetics or royalty

[@JamesWillmus]

Humans domesticated dogs, cats domesticated themselves. We only started selectively breeding cats well after their species emerged.

[@shibalikchakraborty5344]

The story of cat does sound like "there was an ancient master race of carnivores that dominated an empire than span across 5 continents & then they started going extinct cause of hairless monkey"

[@luisescogido5063]

Great drawings I really understand

[@shawnohagan5503]

Great video