A domestic cat can bark. It's more like a fox bark but it's a bark. An embarrassment is the cat actually and deliberately saying, "me-yow". Or the dog looking up at you and quietly pronouncing, "w-oof".
I find it interesting that a wolf and dog are easy to distinguish but a wild cat is just a cat. Ten thousand years of domestication and they've hardly changed at all.
Infact that led to some scientist to argue that cats had not really been domesticated. Simply the bravest samples "selected themself" deciding to live close to an animal far bigger than them. To domesticate a species, humans need to control it's reproduction and, with cats, especially in a rural environment, that's really hard to do since, if females are not completely segregated, they tend to breed with multiple males wherever they want, so hindering any effort to selective breeeding.
I disagree. Their physical shape hasn't changed much, but they have pretty colours unlike wildcats. Wildcats who are taken in can't really be turned super friendly and are more unpredictable than something like a wolfdog.
my uncle who lives in a village in India told me about his old pet cat that was very 'big and fat'. I thought maybe just an obese chonker or sum. BUT NO, He had a whole a*s caracal as a pet. apparently he found a lonely kitten when he was out watering his fields and took it home with him. obviously they later understood that it wasn't an 'ordinary' cat, but he was friendly and apparently helped him take care of other animals as well. He died when i was 2 so never got a chance of meeting him but wow, i wished i could've met Sheru (it means lion in hindi, well said in a cooing way)
Outstanding. I've always been interested in cats and this video has helped to expand my understanding of the breeds and the lineage of the various cats. Thank you.
Watching this before the premiere of "The Evolution of the Dog" on this channel later today. I have the (impossible) desire to know the entire evolutionary history of life on Earth across all levels of taxonomy (not really doable when some phylogenies are still in flux), and this channel helps me a lot with that goal.
I just discovered this channel and I am impressed by the density of factual information and evidence for rival hypotheses. You have obviously done your research and your audience definitely benefits. Thank you. I have subscribed.
My cat is a scarred tom with torn ears and one missing front paw. He still manages to absolutely rule every neighbourhood we move to. He's named "Ivan the Terrible". His scientific name is Felis Domesticus Terriblis
the domestic cat is further categorized into a multitude of breeds. from the common Tabby to the short-faced Persian, to the hairless Sphinx and Cornish Rex.
Dogs, unsurprisingly, have excellent hearing. They also have a complex vocal system, for example producing two grating off-key notes simultaneously, a dyad, when they howl (they're far from tone-deaf, they do it on purpose) - they can imitate a range of sounds, not just barks and growls but whistles, whines and grunts. Which is why we whistle to call a dog, dogs can whistle to call too. But hearing the dog trying to imitate the cat's purr with his V8 growl is just embarrassing.
I used to whistle my Siamese cat home every evening. I let him play in the woods during the day, but I didn't want him wandering around outside at night. No matter how far away he was, he always started back immediately when he heard me whistle. Cats are supposed to be delicate and agile, and I guess he was when he wanted to be, but coming home at night it sounded like something the size of a bear was crashing through the bushes toward me. 😂
The family Procyonidae is restricted to only the North American genera, Bassariscus and Procyon are the only two extant genera within Procyonidae, the genera native to Eurasia and South America are all relocated to the families Ailuridae and Nasuidae respectively, Ailuridae contains one surviving genus being Ailurus, which contains only one extant species being the Red Panda (Ailurus fulgens), Nasuidae contains four extant genera, Potos which includes one extant species being the Kinkajou (Potos flavus), Bassaricyon which includes four species being the Olinguito (Bassaricyon neblina), the Northern Olingo (Bassaricyon gabbii), the Eastern Lowland Olingo (Bassaricyon alleni), and the Western Lowland Olingo (Bassaricyon medius), Nasuella which includes two species being the Eastern Mountain Coati (Nasuella meridensis) and the Western Mountain Coati (Nasuella olivacea), and Nasua which includes three species being the Lowland Coati (Nasua nasua), the White-Nosed Coati (Nasua narica), and the Cozumel Coati (Nasua nelsoni), Ailuridae contains many extinct genera such as Stromeriella, Broiliana, Angustictis, Protursus, Simocyon, and Magerictis, Nasuidae contains many extinct genera such as Tetraprothomo, Parahyaenodon, Brachynasua, Pachynasua, Amphinasua, Cynonasua (sometimes Cyonasua), and Chapalmalania, most genera within the family Procyonidae are entirely extinct examples being the genera Amphictis, Actiocyon, Alopecocyon, Pristinailurus, Parailurus, Bassaricyonoides, Arctonasua, Edaphocyon, Myxophagus, Paranasua, Parapotos, Probassariscus, and Protoprocyon all of which are endemic to only North America, all these three extant families along with Mephitidae (Skunks and Stink Badgers) are part of the superfamily Procyonoidea, within this superfamily, Mephitidae is the most basal to diverge, the namesake family Procyonidae is only more derived than Mephitidae but is basal to both Ailuridae and Nasuidae.
Here it is. Raccoons were meant to be the next dominant species after humans. A million years after humans. The world would be inhabited by an intelligent race of raccoons.
@@indyreno2933 sorry, I was incorrect, you listed over 51 random species names lol I hope you copy pasted and didn’t spend all that time typing out all of those names no one wants to read lol
@@kylemendoza8860 I want us to give raccoons opposable thumbs, and send out self-replicating terraforming probes that deposit upgraded raccoons instead of primates, seems like we'd create some fascinating radiations.
The cheetah probably didn’t get retractable claws because it always had its claws out when running. So it just evolved to always have them out for convenience. What do y’all think ?
There is no cheetah family, cheetahs are cats, a cheetah is any cat that belongs to the genus Acinonyx, there are only two living cheetah species, the African Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) and the Asiatic Cheetah (Acinonyx venaticus), they are the most basal living genus within the subtribe Acinonychina of the tribe Pantherini within the subfamily Felinae, which is the only extant subfamily of the family Felidae.
@@marcushendriksen8415 Whether they are retractable or protractible would be based on where the claw sits in its resting state, which would be inside the paw, so that would make them protractable.
This was good, a useful break down of the information I was looking for. My feedback is to slow down, consider pacing and enjoy the breath in between the spaces, positive and negative space = composition. The reason why is it's a lot of information to consume at once, it's slightly too high a BPM for genetic break downs. Have a beautiful day!
Wow, that was amazing. World class. If the BBC made that, it would take them 5 years, a budget of 5 million USD and half the info would be wrong. Good job friend. 👍
Can you spent more time on lesser known species? For example here smaller cat species are unknown to me, so I would like to hear more information about them. In any case great video 👌
the small wild cats are so cute 😢😢😢 I wish I could pet one but they’re too scared of humans. Well at least I can pet domesticated cats that look similar
2:07 Yeah it's right because If you look closely at the face and compare it to that of a cat, the ears, the mouth are a little more stretched than those of felines, the whiskers and the eyes are the same
Unfortunately they’re now found in the wild in Australia. But cause of that fact I don’t really see the reason for confining domestic cats inside. They’re not going away. The feral ones are getting big too. It would be interesting to know how they might evolve millions of years from now
They won't go away if people continue to believe they won't. Did you forget we're capable of hunting animals to extinction? If people didn't find it so appalling to hunt a cat/keep them indoors we could do the same with them. That's gotta be one of the worst cop outs for not doing anything about ferals that I've ever seen. They're wiping out dozens of species including another wild cat by intermixing.
@@foxyrider7840 yes we’re capable of hunting some animals to extinction. Even then, it’s usually compounding factors like habitat loss/degradation. Predation by pest species. Or they’re large species with small populations and long gestations. But can you hunt rats to extinction? Mice? Pidgeons? You can’t eradicate cats. Cane toads? Rainbow lorikeets? And if you can convince every good hearted civil minded person it’s gonna work to keep their cats in, some of them will get out, some people won’t care. If the solution to every complicated problem was that all you need is for everyone to be convinced and participate, along with an unrealistic ambition on the scale of the Chinese government hunting sparrows, then go ahead and give it a go. At that point you might as well start educating the cats.
@@Freshbott2 Cop. Out. We've killed off plenty of breeder species but that's not the point. You can't compare cats to rats because it is a lot harder for a cat to hide, they don't have the same gestation period, and they take a lot longer to start breeding, they're almost the same as dogs in these terms, and the US has done a solid job of taking them off the street. The only issue is certain lower income areas not giving af because laws aren't enforced there and police are busy policing other areas, though that's still the minority. Of course some cats will still get out but that's why you create jobs that take care of that. I'm not gonna argue further with you because based on your tactics it's clear you don't believe in their eradication and would rather give up because of your bias. People like you perpetuate the problem. "I don't really see the reason for confining domestic cats inside and want to watch them evolve". Big fucking yikes.
@@foxyrider7840 if you don’t wanna argue with me then don’t argue with me. If you feel the cutoff gestation period for an animal to be able to be eradicated is arbitrarily above rats but below cats then I don’t know what drives your thinking. They’re not comparable to dogs, if a chihuahua or a collie runs off it will either come back home or die. They’re more akin to a fox, which have the same status in Australia. There are literally more foxes than cats, and unlike cats they have no reserve domestic population to escape. Cats are a worse case scenario than that. The idea you’re gonna catch 100% of them from these communities where you’re convinced the problem is that people don’t have the money to participate in a continental scale mass eradication of specifically feral cats, is just dreaming. That’s just jobs for jobs. Jobs in controlling pest species are a revolving door on the public tit. That’s been seen on every continent before. You can reduce the population bubbles through the means we already have. A spayed cat that’s out is place holding territory and resources where there would be an unspayed feral. That’s the best we can hope, to keep it low. Instead of worrying about a domestic on land that was mass cleared for agriculture and then cleared again to cover with tacky houses with drained wetlands no native trees. Keeping a cat inside is really scraping the bottom of the barrel when there’s how many enforceable and realistic options. Fence off some parklands, that’s been effective before.
@@foxyrider7840 since when are cats illegal in America. Shut up liberal the songbirds are t going to extinct. Survival of the fittest till you don’t like outcomes.
@@free_balloons most successful here having the meaning of surviving on their own: 1: feral & tame housecats, 2: coyotes, 3: black bears, 4: whitetail deer, 5: owls, 6: rats (you are correct about this species), 7: carp, 8: red ants, Etc.
@@free_balloons humans could easily exterminate our entire species with one push of a button, the unintended consequence of Oppenheimer & Teller. If that happens we fall off the list.
The story of cat does sound like "there was an ancient master race of carnivores that dominated an empire than span across 5 continents & then they started going extinct cause of hairless monkey"
Why domestic dogs are so much morphologically diverse than domestic cats? One factor should be that dogs were breed for certain particular roles, but that may not be the whole story, maybe dogs have intrinsically more genetic plasticity than cats
No, it's because of the reasons they were domesticated. Dogs were bred for many purposes for example: pugs were bred for being royal lap dogs of Chinese emperors whilst German shepherds are guard dogs with strong bodies. Se they look different cuz they are not supposed to do the same thing, also they had more time Cats were simply pest control and nothing else, and it was much more recent than dogs, maybe in the future we will have tiger sized cats just like how we have Dire Wolf sized dogs. So it's a combination of being bred for different things and this breeding starting a long time ago.
What is it about this video specifically that brought out the science denialists? I took a quick look at a few other vids from this channel and they weren't swarming those comments.
When people see cats, which are, let's be frank here, adorable, their cerebral processing is shunted into the limbic system where logic and cognitive processes are denigrated in favor of an imperative frenzy to obtain food, water, sex and a desire to become low grade epistemologically arrogant internet troll clones. The only solution is to brutally mock them, which I do.
The genus Panthera is restricted to only the Leopard (Panthera pardus) and Lion (Panthera leo) as its only extant representatives, while the snow leopard, tiger, and jaguar are all relocated to genera Uncia and Jaguarius respectively, Jaguarius contains a handful of all roaring cats found in the new world, the Jaguar (Jaguarius onca) is its type species and only extant representative, there were other extinct species within the genus Jaguarius like Jaguarius balamoides (Mexican Leopard) and Jaguarius atrox (American Lion), the genus Jaguarius (New World Roaring Cats) is actually most closely related to the clouded leopards (genus Neofelis), the genus Uncia contains two extant species, the Snow Leopard (Uncia uncia) and the Tiger (Uncia tigris), the genus Uncia also includes many extinct species like the well-known Cave Lion (Uncia spelaea) and a few poorly known species like Uncia youngi, Uncia zdanskyi, Uncia blytheae, and Uncia palaeosinensis, interestingly the extinct European Jaguar (Panthera gombaszoegensis) is not closely related to the Jaguar (Jaguarius onca) but is actually more closely related to the Leopard (Panthera pardus) and Lion (Panthera leo), interestingly, the genus Uncia is a sister group to a clade consisting of the genera Jaguarius and Neofelis to the exclusion of the genus Panthera, making Panthera the most basal extant genus within the subtribe Pantherina.
I like they coin new genera names to reflect better the phylogeny, on the other hand we lose the genera name that reflects that all those ex-Panthera species form a monophyletic clade
I've collected rare cat fossil specimens for over five decades. In my lab, my modern tabby Jackson frequently curls up next to my Smilodon sabertooth cat skull and lays on its bones that lay alongside. Obviously He has no respect for his elders, but I often wonder if he makes the connection that these are the remains of his long deceased relative?
I want such a cross breed so everytime someone asks me "where's you're cat?" I can do a deep sigh and say "For the 10th time: It's no cat! It's a Caracat!!"
Wolves are actually dogs, dogs are not the same thing as the Domestic Dog (Canis lupus familiaris), a dog is any carnivoran that belongs to the family Canidae, therefore foxes, jackals (including the coyote), and wild species with the word "dog" in their name are dogs, even the extinct hesperocyonines and borophagines are also dogs, in fact the canines are the only extant subfamily of dogs.
KINGDOM: Anamalia aka Metazoa (animals) Subkingdom: Eumetazoa (true animals) Clade: Parahoxozoa Clade: Bilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals) Clade: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia (blastopore forms into anus first, mouth second) Phylum: Chordata (post anal tail, notocord, pharyngeal slits, dorsal nerve cord, endostyle/(thyroid) Clade: Olfactores (olfactory system) Subphylum: Vertebrata (olfactory chordates with backbones) Infraphylum: Gnathostomata (everything with jaws) Clade: Eugnathostomata Superclass: Osteichthyes (bony fish. Everything with bones beyond just backbones) Clade: Sarcopterygii (lobed fin "fish", this is an important clade formation of tetrapod limbs, only 2 "fish" groups extant, Dipnoi and Coelacanth. Last shared clade with Coelacanth) Clade: Rhipidistia (fish with lungs essentially. Last shared clade with Dipnoi) Clade: Tetrapodamorpha Clade: Eotetropodaformes Clade: Elpistostegalia Clade: Stegocephalia Superclass: Tetrapoda (4 limbs with distinct digits in an autopod) Clade: Reptiliomorpha (more towards reptile but not reptile yet) Clade: Amniota (amniotic eggs, facilitating further excursions onto land due to eggs more suited for conditions on land instead of in water) Clade: Synapsida (sister of Diapsida that goes to Reptilia/Squamata/Dinosauria/Aves) Clade: Mammaliaformes Class: Mammalia (mammals, we have mammary glands, hair) Subclass: Theria Clade: Eutheria Infraclass: Placentalia (placental mammals) Magnorder: Boreoeutheria (last ancestral clade primates share with Carnivora, so cats/dogs/bears/racoons/etc) it's sister clade Atlantogenata has two subgroups, Zenarthra and Afrotheria. I'm only going as far as our shared ancestry with cats. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-p3MuDMoVzX0.html
Everybody wants to be a cat, Because a cat's the only cat, Who knows where it's at....🎶 ( The Aristocats). 😼❤️ Domestic cats have sometimes crossbred in Scotland with wildcats, producing a black furred cat, that is the size of a fox or medium dog. At least two of these creatures have been found dead, and they are one source of big cat sightings in the UK, along with more exotic cats who were let go by people, a few decades ago after laws on keeping them, were changed, that might have also crossbred or survived and breed.
