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Most cat breeds still look more or less like their wild relatives.
by indoordin0saur 11mo ago
Most cat breeds still look more or less like their wild relatives.
- dvh 11mo agoHave you seen short legged cats?
- IsTom 11mo 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 11mo agoYes and I'd like it to stop
- nine_k 11mo agoMost dogs, arguably, too. But there are French bulldogs, dachshunds, and pugs. Among domestic cats, there are Persian cats and Sphinx cats.
- nunez 11mo agoAnd then you have the fossa.
- card_zero 11mo agoThat's only a pretend cat, it's a lemur-thing really. Wait no, a civet-thing.
- scotty79 11mo 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 11mo agoCitation required for claim that runs counter to most scientific evidence.
- scotty79 11mo 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 11mo agoDogs are genetically the same species: Canis familiaris, a type of grey wolf. They can breed with wolves, and other closely related canines.
- scotty79 11mo 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 11mo 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.
- scotty79 11mo agoI think it should be easy to rule out with genetic research and it probably was ruled out since the research shows that domestic cats come from this wild species not yhe other way around, though they interbreed in areas where they have opportunity.