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The cat injury from falling study is an interesting one. It was measured by how many cats were treated by a vet. Do you see the problem with their conclusion?
Cody Nemo tortoiseshell Cat fur expression is epigenetic and X-chromosome dependent, so the cloned cat expresses differently than the original due to external factors.
Felis catus is your taxonomic nomenclature, An endothermic quadruped, carnivorous by nature. Your visual, olfactory, and auditory senses Contribute to your hunting skills and natural defenses...
Late Latin for cat is cattus, not catulus, which always meant puppy. The original etymology of "cat" is highly uncertain. The English word may in fact hark back to proto-Germanic, and it's possible the Romans got the word from the ancient Germanics rather than the other way around. All we really know is that this animal is called by similar names across a wide span of unrelated languages. No one really knows with whom the word originated.
@@SeventhEve That's a possibility, but no one really knows. Similarity alone isn't enough to establish a relationship, nor to indicate the direction of that relationship.
Massive survivor's bias on the last factoid though. Obviously, if a cat falls short enough, you don't need to call the veterinary because it's not hurt, and if it falls from too high and gets hurt, you'd call a guy with a shovel.
Though if you have the cats that survived, recording the floors that they fell from will produce a curve, the inverse of which will display probable lethality.
Now now ... it's my fault I watch your videos while drinking tea, I admit that, but it's YOUR fault I spit tea on the computer screen ! Hillarious! Well done !
Had a friend accidentally put his cat in the dryer. The cat had a habit of talking naps in there, he turned on the dryer to fluff some clothes and heard the thumping noise, wondered what it was and opened the door and the cat shot out like a bolt of lightning. The dryer wasn’t on for very long but he said it wasn’t the same after and didn’t live much longer unfortunately.
That's horrible, wish I hadn't read that. You do have to look out for cats hanging out in dangerous places. Cats get harmed by being inside cars for example.
My sister’s cat fell off the roof of their house (four storeys) and broke lots of bones. It would be five storeys up, going off the sidewall. She lived into her 20s, but spent months living in a small cage, to heal.
Not gonna lie... but when they started about the cloned cat, and the kitten's name CC standing for 'Copy Cat', I legit thought it was CC, like for Email, where it stands for 'Carbon Copy'.
How the hell was Clive so right about the parachuting thing, and the exact heights too, wtf Also that's amazing that cats can survive any 7+ storey fall. And from planes even, as Stephen mentioned. That is truly amazing.
Not true. The 'Mao' in 毛泽东 (Mao Ze Dong) is 2nd tone, while the Mandarin word for cat 'mao' (猫) is 1st tone. So while they may be the same when transliterated without tonality - which you would normally include with pin yin - they are definitely not the same in the original Mandarin, neither character- nor pronunciation-wise.
@@solomanyamin2876 I'm pretty sure that he did :-) The thing about the phrase 帽子里的猫 (mao4zi li3 de mao1) is that 帽子 does mean hat, and 猫 does mean cat, so that 毛泽东的帽子里的猫 (mao2ze2dong1demao4zili3demao1) means the cat in Mao Zedongs hat; but the characters are not the same, and the pronunciations differ on tonality, which in Mandarin Chinese makes them very different words. For comparison, there are around 120 different words that in pinyin (phonetic transliteration method of written Chinese (meaning we write their pronunciation of Chinese characters with letters)) are spelled 'yi', if you leave out the difference in tones. For 'shi' there are about 60, if memory serves me right. It's the single hardest thing to understand when you first start acquainting yourself with Mandarin Chinese: That the tone with which a word is pronounced changes the semantics of that word, and that so many words sound exactly alike, but change meaning anyway when you change the character associated with it. Anywho, long story short: Yes he did, and no they don't.
Actually, there's a slight error in the question about Chairman Mao. Mao, first tone, means cat, but Mao's name was pronounced with the second tone and means hair or fur.
Really?) May I ask, how does is look to you considering it looks good? Like, he is wearing either-blue-or-green with fuxia with bright yellow? Or maybe blue with smth bright with smth light?
That story about “cat” coming from the Latin for “dog” is amusing, but it’s wrong. The modern English word “cat” derives from Old English “catt” (male cat) and “catte” (female cat), which in turn come from a proto-Germanic root (*Katzus and *Katon have been hypothesized), which ultimately is probably from a proto-Indo-European root that is most likely also the ancestor of Latin “cattus.”
Ghelma : Sure, all my theory (not really mine; I’m just citing it) has going for it is a mountain of documentary evidence and the consensus of thousands of etymologists and lexicographers. Other than that, it’s no better than the cutesy line on the TV show.
The Latin for cat is felis. Like feline. "Cat" comes from Proto-Germanic. "Catulus" does mean puppy though, and Roman poet Catullus' name is from there.
@@AtomicWadey27 Terminal Velocity is the maximum velocity an object will achieve without assistance under 1 G. A feather will never reach 120mph on Earth. A cat has a different weight/mass/profile than humans so a different maximum velocity
@@Gerry1of1 for a human yes its about 120. But terminal velocity differs from object to object due to difference in buoyancy and drag. Now i dont know what the terminal velocity of a cat is so i cant say if they are right when they say its 60 mph but its very likely that it is much different than that of a human
I would have assumed cat calling had something to do with the use of puss, but it started as a term of endearment between friends and family, more akin to calling a little girl kitten. Then later on purse/pocket slang came around for lady parts, then that was twisted back to the pour cat, something warm soft and furry.
"The Whole Nine Yards" = an idiom of unknown origin meaning a status of total commitment, or covering all matters related. Apparently it is "The most prominent etymological riddle of our time", and if Wikipedia doesn't hold the answer than there isn't one.
@@SvenTviking The first recorded use of the phrase is from about 30 years before the P51 went into production so a highly unlikely origin unfortunately
Now they didn't make it clear if that's a UK or American seventh floor, as in the USA they tend to start with floor one as the ground floor whereas in the UK it would be counted as floor zero.
Chairman Mao isnt the same word for cat. Its a homophone. (猫) is the character for cat, while (毛) is the surname for Mao Zedong, but the latter (毛) is a root word for hair (毛发), or feather (羽毛), and even a unit of money (一毛钱). The two characters are pronounced with different tones.
for some reason i remember it being from kilts, bc you had to use a lot of fabric - hence the whole nine yards. but maybe it's a similar enough root, like you bought the whole bolt for it
I always heard it came from the First World War and that a standard machine gun belt would be around 9 yards when laid out. So when the enemy came into no mans land you’d give them the whole 9 yards.
But dog is "canis", isn't it?? That was one of the first things I ever learned in my Latin lessons. "Quintus tacet. Sol ardet. Canis tacet." Quintus is silent, the sun is burning, the dog is silent, I don't remember much else of those six years lol Edit: ohh wait okay they say it means puppy, that's made the world right again
I remember the first cat we ever had, a Siamese named Cleo. She was a kitten when she came to our home. I was 7 years old, the eldest of three kids; I had two younger sisters. So this cat was well accustomed to playing with children and was a near constant companion to us. One day, my sisters were walking their dolls in a baby stroller. When they got tired of the stroller and left it in the garage, me and my friends decided to take it out and see if we could use it as a catapult. We thought we could do this by releasing it at the top of a straightaway down a hill, and whatever we put in the carriage part would go flying out when the stroller crashed into the curb at the bottom of the hill. We were trying with things like basketballs or soccer balls and getting nowhere because the whole idea was silly. However, on one of the attempts Cleo suddenly appeared and jumped up on top of the stroller and rode it down the hill, and just at the moment it crashed into the curb she jumped as hard as she could, nearly crossing an entire yard at one leap. She loved it, and so did we! I can remember running in to tell our mother what we'd done, and she was almost ready to punish us for cruelty to the cat, because our description of it sounded horrible. But as soon as we started to move the stroller into position to show her, Cleo jumped right up onto it and did her thing! Cats are fucking weird! Oh and by the way, the new film version of their famous musical will be in cinemas before Christmas. It stars Judi Dench, Idris Elba, James Corden and Jennifer Hudson, et al. Should be fun.
Felis Catus is your taxonomic nomenclature An endothermic quadruped carniverous by nature Your visual, olfactory, and auditory senses Contribute to your hunting skills and natural defenses. I find myself intrigued by your sub-vocal oscillations A singular development of cat communications That obviates your basic hedonistic predilection For a rhythmic stroking of your fur to demonstrate affection. A tail is quite essential for your acrobatic talents You would not be so agile if you lacked its counterbalance And when not being utilized to aid in locomotion It often serves to illustrate the state of your emotion Oh Spot, e complex levels of behavior you display Denote a fairly well developed cognitive array And though you are not sentient, Spot, and do not comprehend I nonetheless consider you a true and valued friend.
People who say they don't like cats, have never had one of their own. So, they should be saying "I don't like other peoples' cats." Once you have one of your own, you will change your mind. Cat #1 - Trafalgar Cat #2 - Maxine Cat #3 - Buster
At 4.58, Stephen Fry starts talking about a cat that was cloned and shows a picture of the kitten and the original cat behind him. If clones are supposed to be identical to the original animal, why does the kitten have different markings?
It's down to the X chromosome carrying the info for the black/orange markings, in female cats you have two (X-X), but only one chromosome of those gets used in each cell...so the fur patterns will always be kind of random. I'm sure epigenetics plays a part too, but that was after I left uni. Pretty sure if it was a male cat (X-Y) it would look identical to the clone.
" where's your mom?" " Upstairs watching too many hours of that British Jeopardy show,but they can talk dirty and use the F word".....replies the kid. ******* EXACTLY******😁
As much as I hate to be a pedant… Mao’s name was written 毛澤東, is surname being 毛, which is pronounced máo, with a rising inflection. Mao written this way means “hair” or “fur”. On the other hand, the word for cat is 貓, which is pronounced, as Stephen rightly said, with a high, flat inflection. So really they’re two completely separate words.
Fallacy of the New York study on "floors". Buildings in NYC vary in floor-to-floor height by up to 3 feet, some have "ground" floors, some have first-floors over half-buried basements, some have their "first" floor 16 feet in the air... garbage-in-garbage-out
"The whole 9 yards" if I remember correctly comes from anti aircraft guns. They had 9 yards of shells on a belt so if you used of them you gave it the whole 9 yards. I could be wrong, Someone Google it !
Close!...Not ANTI-aircraft guns, but rather the ammo belts in the aircraft guns themselves. A pilot might (for example) say "I gave him the whole 9 yards but he still got away!"
Somebody posts a comment and suggests people google it? Why not take the time to google it first, then post a comment? And try a book, not google, which is just full of the worthless opinions of plebs.
