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If dogs started out as wolves and ended up as English bulldogs, imagine how stupid raccoons will eventually look.
by tptacek 1y ago
If dogs started out as wolves and ended up as English bulldogs, imagine how stupid raccoons will eventually look.
- dmix 1y agoProbably something like a koala bear
- indoordin0saur 1y agoMost cat breeds still look more or less like their wild relatives.
- dvh 1y agoHave you seen short legged cats?
- IsTom 1y agoThat's a recessive trait that is fatal if they get two copies of it. When left to their devices they'll return to being normal cats in a few generations.
- Levitating 1y agoYes and I'd like it to stop
- nine_k 1y agoMost dogs, arguably, too. But there are French bulldogs, dachshunds, and pugs. Among domestic cats, there are Persian cats and Sphinx cats.
- nunez 1y agoAnd then you have the fossa.
- card_zero 1y agoThat's only a pretend cat, it's a lemur-thing really. Wait no, a civet-thing.
- scotty79 1y agoCats aren't really domesticated. Out of many, many cat species we just found one that's well aligned with humans and it spread with humans to the whole world. No other cat species plays well with humans and none shows any signs of domestication.
- IAmBroom 1y agoCitation required for claim that runs counter to most scientific evidence.
- scotty79 1y agoSure thing. That one specific cat species was (and still is) Felis silvestris lybica. All domestic cats come from it and it's still the friendliest towards humans, out of all cat species. They still can and commonly bread with each other when they live in the same area. Some light reading: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/ask-smithsonian-are-cats-domesticated-180955111/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/ask-s... So, what was your evidence again?
- mr_toad 1y agoDogs are genetically the same species: Canis familiaris, a type of grey wolf. They can breed with wolves, and other closely related canines.
- scotty79 1y agoNo dog looks like a wolf unless it was intentionally bred for that look. You can barely tell mixed race domestic cats from their wild ancestor.
- indoordin0saur 1y agoInteresting. Thanks for sharing. But a counter hypothesis I have is that this might be from the wild population over time getting more interbreeding with escaped domestic cats, causing the apparently domestic behavior in the wild ones.
- cpursley 1y agoWell this gave me some fun ideas for AI image generation. There goes the rest of my afternoon, thanks!
- ForOldHack 1y agoAnd pugs? What would a pug raccoon look like?
- ChrisMarshallNY 1y agoOne of my favorite memes: https://share.google/sQw5gZ6O4wQspS61P https://share.google/sQw5gZ6O4wQspS61P
- pruetj 1y agoThank you for this, I needed that.
- ansgri 1y agoLuckily there are still the extra snouty breeds like Belgian shepherds and various sighthounds.