African Wildcat: The Cat That Domesticated Us 

true and how we can please them!

Yes my cats are my bosses. I do whatever they want whenever they want.

Lol agreed

Overlords is not incorrect

Who is our?

i think it is housecat, but the zoo's rebranding it as "african wildcat" 😅

​@@hilman94 True.😂😂

True it make sense both are descendents so they look similar 😂

There’s even an AI program where you can make it like David Attenborough is narrating it too! I saw a guy who did that once on RU-vid and it was hysterical!

wouldn't that just be a sleeping cat for 10 minutes video time ? :D

YES PLEASE 🎉

EGYPT is the earliest evidence of domestication, in fact , the were regarded as gods.

I thought the evidence says we domesticated cats twice

@@desertracer619 yes, there was another species that was domesticated as well but no longer exists bc this vers took over. ig they were just more friendly

​@@ronaldwiley8357No, it is not. The original poster is correct - the oldest datable evidence is from Cyprus, around 9-10 thousand years ago (a burial of a man alongside his cat).

​@@nckojita The Leopard cat (Prionailurus bengalensis) was probably domesticated in Neolithic China but they were replaced by the domestic cat before the Tang dynasty. Leopard cats still exist though.

Sorry for your loss that’s a incredible kitty life tho

hot damn that’s a long life

i would love my little one to live that long. bless

slave...not owner...

I'm convinced that most, probably all, cat people are closet submissives. Each has a need to be dominated met by small, imposing felines. I'm stating, not complaining!

When the cat meows, it means "Get me some treats, servant."

@@brunocaruso6007 No we'd actually be worse, humans are the only true self conscious animals when it comes to overeating a population. Any other animal would happily eat another into extinction. The only reason we do so much damage is just because we're so much better at it. If cats domesticated us we'd basically of made every bird go extinct to feed them, like they are trying to do themselves with bird populations. Never fool yourself, humans are the most merciful animals on the planet.

​@@TK-yz3wtOr, 'attention now -!' 😅

I agree and once they bring you a kitten, it's all over. Who can resist a cute little kitten?

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How did they domesticate us? The video really did not make that clear. The example given of cats hunting pests of human farm produce is an example of biological mutualism, not of cats domesticating humans.

There is a raeson we don't milk pigs.

It really depends on what type of cat we're talking about. The munchkins wouldn't do well alone in nature, poor things. All the flat faces would disappear too, which wouldn't be a bad thing in the end.

It depends on how you define 'needing humans'. Unlike their true wild cousins, feral cats don't generally thrive away from human civilization. They at the very least need humans to create the environments they prefer to live in and drive off competing predators, even if feral cats don't want direct interaction.

@@danaroth598 they're fine living on their own. they do not need humans in order for them to survive, prefered enviroments doesn't mean its neccesary enviroments.

A lot of currently living cats need human help due to overpopulation. The wild wouldn't produce enough prey to feed them all, but it wouldn't take long for the population to decline back down to reach equilibrium between predator and prey.

people often forget that cats are still predatorial animals, even 1 of the best hunters in the animal kingdom, even with the domesticated ones you should still watch how you handle it. science concluded that every part of a cat was specifically tailored and made for hunting, every muscle, claws, nails, even the tail, even their fur... I always think that without humans it's either dolphins or cats that would rule the world :D

@@Vanyali If my cats could figure out how to open a door, like Dr Who's Daleks figuring out how to climb stairs, they would indeed, rule the planet. Instead, they invaded during pandemic Zoom sessions, to convert the rest of humanity. ;-)

@@Kayenne54 My orange cat (who is smarter than your average male orange tabby) figured out how to open our back door (on his second day in residence) if we didn't lock it. And just after we finally trained the dog not to let himself out.

@@davidmescher2526 ha ha haha. My imagination: Smug look from David to wife; "See, told you I could train him". Wife, wide eyed staring past David "uh huh, don't get comfortable, the cat's figured it out".

@@Kayenne54 It was more finding the door open, the cat outside, and the dog in his crate. Fortunately, Sullivan* is a pretty easy going cat, and it was not difficult to pick him up and bring him back inside. * - Sullivan is fully styled as His Most Supreme Royal Majesty, Sullivan I, Protector of High Places, Chastiser of Dogs, and Explorer of the Outdoors. That's a little too long to type (or say) regularly, but he does answer to "Your Majesty" and "His Majesty."

My dog too...

When I was a kid we had a Siamese cat that would open doors. We had to wedge the basement door shut with a butter knife.

We had a cat who would jump up on the screen door and hang their till we let her in.

Bengals are hybrids of the Asian leopard cat. They're not any closer to an African wildcat than domestics are.

@@rfmerrillI know, I meant wildcat as a general term describing a "wild" cat, which the leopard cat is, but I've edited my original post for clarity. I just brought up our Bengals because Danielle showed off hers.

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Yes!!!

A Coyote will also happily do the job for free.

"Enough about me" said the Cat. "Now let's talk about me".

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Every image, they look so glowering and cranky. Adorable.

Do you mean cats managing humans as the title implies?

They are not the only ones.

i just wish people would leave their domesticated cats indoors. or at least make an outdoor area that they cannot escape from, it's not hard to do that either if you have the property. domestic cats have caused the extinction of so many animals and those species didn't deserve that in my opinion when it could've very easily been prevented. if you have to fend off pests in a new land, don't bring new animals either, learn how to use the local ecosystem to your advantage.

A huge part of the Scottish Wildcat story is they were sadly shot by the hundreds (sometimes thousands) by farmers because they were viewed as a pest akin to rabbits… never mind that they eat rabbits and hares 🙄 we have many records of farmers’ log books recording how many they shot each day… some sold the fur, others didn’t bother with even that. This is sadly entirely of our own making, although domestic cats were hybridising with the wildcats even back then. But if farmers hadn’t shot so many, we might have genetic samples of the original animal today… now we only know about the parts of the DNA which were passed into the offspring.

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I have no idea where you got that from. The Dire wolf (Aenocyon dirus) is not ancestral to dogs and is distantly related to them. An extinct lineage of the grey wolf (Canis lupus) that existed during the Late Pleistocene is the progenitor of all dogs.

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