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Domestic cats are arguably the most successful mammalian carnivores anywhere.
by ghaff 2y ago
Domestic cats are arguably the most successful mammalian carnivores anywhere.
- EasyMarion 2y agothey hunted us for food once, figured out we’d feed them instead, and never looked back. probably the only species that domesticated us.
- method_capital 2y agoDogs have masters; cats have servants.
- Sharlin 2y agoTo be that guy, small felines never were big felines. Domestic kitties do not descend from people-eating ones.
- TheOtherHobbes 2y agoMini-cats have much in common with main-cats, both in terms of software and hardware, but the power requirements are rather lower.
- lwouis 2y agoDomestication is often thought of as a unilateral relationship. Like all relationships, it goes both ways. We have domesticated cows and wheat. Now their population has reached tremendous size. So has our population. We both need the other species to survive. We need them, and they need us. You could definitely take the perspective that we have been domesticated. For example, plants have domesticated us by feeding us.
- grumpy-de-sre 2y agoI've joked that the nuclear wasteland will be populated by cockroaches, rats and ... cats. They are the ultimate survivor.