the prophesies of JESUS coming back from the book of Revelation are happening, be warned. am just saying what is in the bible and if you think of what I said rationally then you would understand why you should really be taking JESUS seriously. plus, if you take the wisdom in the bible, it is a must for your life to change in a good way man, I haven't felt better in my life. Am not judging am just saying what is in the bible please don't kill me.
@FrankMadoffe if you actually care, just know that basically nobody likes you saying stuff like this in completely unrelated comment sections. At least go to a video about religion, then you'd maybe find some people who care about what you're saying.
Because they aren't actually domesticated lol Cats "domesticated" themselves, aka they just decide to live near us because they know we provide food and shelter. But if a stray cat was to grow up in a forest/jungle, it would be just as wild and good at hunting as its wild flavors. Unlike dogs, which are too far gone to be "wild" again. Most they can do is breed with wolves or coyotes and create pseudo-dogs that are wilder than the parent
1.) Insane reproduction rate. They tend to have 5-10 litters in a year and each litter has 6-8 babies. Thats one mouse mom making 30-80 babies a year 2.) They are beasts in their own right, very agile and very good at hiding
Because they breed insanely large litters, and they do it often some species have like 4-5 large litters a year if I remember correctly been a long time since I researched them for school, think rabbits on sex drugs and more babies
Not only that but for whatever reason they can be 100 generations inbred sibling to sibling and still be fairly healthy overall. Thats what lab rats and lab mice are, they arent considered a good lab animal until they are at LEAST 50 generations to 100 generations inbred so they are all genetically homogenous. So if you put one male rat and one female rat, or one male and one female mouse on an island alone together and come back a couple of years later there will be thousands of perfectly healthy near clones of those two.
When seeing a camera outside its den, a Pallas cat crept up to it, and we get the lovely “What dis?” slow rise of the cat’s head into frame. It is too cute!
Giant or tiny, wild or domestic, docile or deadly....I love them all. We don't deserve cats, but God spoils us with these riches. We just need to do better to protect and cherish them!
true story: i worked third shift in a nurse home in an especially rural part of the appalachians. sometimes, we'd get a call about 3 in the morning from a neighbor freaked out because they thought one of our residents had escaped and was in the woods screaming for help. nope. lynx.
Volunteered at a zoo surrounded by neighborhoods. Local cops would get calls for "someone screaming" - during mating season for elk. Had a big bull elk at the zoo who could bugle really loudly. Calls were mostly from people who hadn't lived in the area very long 😊
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Important note! Part of the reason that house cats are social is because ,as he stated, they are descended from African wildcats. African wild cats are social in nature, unlike the European wildcats, which are not.
12:20 my local zoo recently found out that fishing cats are amazing escape artists as well. The fishing kitten was regularly breaking out of its enclosure and walking itself back at the end of the night😂
I had to see it for myself, and was pleased indeed. I wonder why no other RUclipsrs do something like that. I've never seen it before. I imagine there's a range of different emojis that can be used, but only our homie here has ever used it.
I love the really tiny wild cats. The fact they're so effective at catching prey but also effective at hiding from humans. Tho wish we could learn more about them without accidentally causing their end. 😢
Fun Fact!! My mom remembers when she was a kid her farm cat disappeared for a fortnight and came back preggo. Only one of the kittens survived, so they kept it. It was the nastiest, most violent and grumpy cat ever. But had his sweet moments, so everybody in the family loved him and tolerated the abuse. He was exceptional as a mouser too. Anyway, years later they took him to the vet for an ear infection and turns out? - 1/2 European Wild cat. Mama cat got herself some barbarian stud and the result was a demon cat that was never meant to be a domestic but was forced into being loved. 😂😂😂
HAAAA! Ya, we love our grumpy little demons, We have a barn cat, he does nothing but hiss and growl when you feed him. Hisses WHILE he eats. even when your standing like 20 ft away =D Love that little bastard, i've seen him killing the moles in our yard which really helps with our garden... i mean he also likes pissing ON my window, like right on the glass while im sitting here gaming.... I know who the dominate animal is, and it ain't me.
@thecommenter9678 I thought it was bad enough my (former) farm cat will rush me to get out of my car and come inside after I've pulled in the drive (by jumping in my car window and either snuggling me with occasional squeaks or by trying to push me out)! I'm now grateful my feral kittie's way of showing her place in the food chain is by stealing my blankets and/or pushing me out of bed whilst she preforms the feline version of a jack. Mine just runs and hides whenever anyone or anything that isn't me shows up, even when I've got her snuggling on my lap but I wouldn't change her for anything as she is the sweetest girl imaginable! Doubly so when I think of the pest problems she remedies (she is scared of birds though, luckily)
@SandPounder =D ya my little demon sure isn't loving, but i love him... not that he lets me pet him.... He was dumped on my property years ago, he was in terrible health, which was the only reason we caught him and got him to a vet to get healthy and snipped.... He has never EVER been caught again =D he seems to hate us, but he still sticks around.... eats the food we give him, stares at us and hangs around when we work in the garden. He is such a weird cat... we have many other cats though, as people keep dumping them on our property cause we are rural i guess.
I knew it wasn't domestic from the moment I got to most if the litter not surviving. The genetics of it is fascinating. And as an early gen male, it's highly likely he was sterile because of the difference in species.
14:30 The cat's name is perfectly accurate. It's the English language that is at fault for misusing the Sanskrit word _jaṅgala_ to refer to the literal opposite of what it actually means (an arid, scrubby landscape).
For the entire 4 days this video has been getting reccomended to me, I keep getting distracted by the title and go to make fun of my cat for being Small.
Were you going up to it, poking it and saying "Hee hee. You small."? I don't know why that little image popped into my head - or why you're wearing a toga in it.
So, Servals were the ones that hunted pythons? I hope no one illegally or legally removed the cat(s) because they are wild. Servals aren't big or small. They are medium sized. I've never heard of any Serval attacking a human. Can anyone let me know??
Heard a bobcat attack a fawn in Illinois. Tu hen watched him superman through the woods about five feet from me at eye level. I was upset he attacked one of a set of twin fawns. So I yelled get out of here and he turned his head to look at me as he sailed by. He hit the ground running to the edge of an open area in the woods. The he walked along the edge glaring at me like a tough tony until two adult deer nearly ran him over trying to flee from danger (the bobcat). I'm just now realizing they were all running away the same direction. What followed the bobcat up to about five yards away from me was momma deer stomping the ground so hard I could feel it. She paced back and forth pounding the ground torn between stomping the life out of the bobcat and protecting her wounded offspring. She stayed with her fawn. I didn't have courage to check where the fawn was. I didn't want to know. Those were the loudest bleats I've ever heard. I hope it was strong enough. I know little half grown tough tonys gotta eat. Little buggar growled at me about a week before until I caught his big yellow eye shine and said "there you are". He took off like a streak of shhhhht. He's still around, growing up. At least he never nailed one of the triplets. They're giving out permits for bobcats now in Illinois. I guess that means they finally escaped near extinction. But this is the only live bobcat I have ever seen. I'd never seen a wild eagle in my county or anywhere until I was 50 because of ddt. I'm glad wild critters are coming back.
I just wanna acknowledge how snappy and witty the writing is for your videos. Great work, and thanks for filling the Animal Planet-shaped hole in my heart.
I'm in my 50's and like your vids because: 1. I love animals, 2. there's lots of good information, and 3. you present it all with a sense of humor. Roll on young man!
One of the most important lessons I've gotten from my Mom to date: never let your age stop you from enjoying the things that make you happy. You're only truly "too old" if you let yourself act like it. :)
My grandma had European Wild Cat, so called "żbik". He started coming to her workplace (she was a security keeping an eye on construction machines in a parking lot near the wood) she gave him some food here and there and soon he became friends with her and started acting like security dog, he didn't allow anybody to cross the gate, unless she called him to get in the office. She had it easy since cat appeared, especially on night shifts, she could take a nap while the cat was guarding. People were scared of him, so if anybody came to borrow a machine they had to scream for help. I don't have to mention nothing was ever stolen from the property on her shift.
the more you’ll watch ai videos the more you’ll get them, i have never encountered one thankfully bc the rare times i saw a ai thumbnail i immediately tap the three dots and tap not interested
Baycats are the most successful feline introverts ever; they were confirmed to exist but now the whole species can't be located. Not even to prove they're deceased.
I live in southern Indiana. About 10 miles from me, we had a Bobcat kill a DONKEY. Yeah. The coyote killing specialist had a bobcat jump on its back and claw and bite until it bled out. Two weeks later, it killed another donkey at the same farm.
Honestly, as a Florida man myself, after hearing about the bobcat killing a shark thing, I feel like now's the time he makes a video about Florida. So Cas, if you're reading this, may you please make a video on Florida? I'd feel really happy and proud.
Yeah I'm 100% guilty of thinking "Why fear if friend-shaped?" whenever I look at these guys, I'm in the same boat as you CasGeo. I'm definitely with you though, people need to stop trying to get these cats as pets. Just knowing about them is enough.
Friend-sized, not friend-shaped. Their shape is not so different from a mountain lion (indeed, mountain lions exhibit many of the same play behaviors as domestic cats), an animal that will kill solitary humans in their territory(i.e. wherever the mountain lion feels comfortable).
@Oddmanoutre I said what I said. From a camera's perspective, I see a cougar, a cheetah, and a clouded leopard with those *massive teeth* and my brain is like "can I pet dat cat?" I'm well aware of how stupid that is though. IRL I would never do such a thing and don't condone it, period. Never approach a wild animal, especially a predator. Give them their space.
@KerianHalcyonYup. I'm in the same boat although sometimes, the intrusive thoughts win. I once had the privilege of petting not one but two wild moose (meese?) - unfortunately, in rescue circumstances (that thankfully ended well - in the mom's full recovery and reunion...and also in me almost getting charged with criminal property damage for cutting and filing down spikes on the fence which claimed it's fourth moose victim this year -first one non-fatally thanks to people being in the area - with the owner refusing to take action another year in the row). My toxic trait is inferring from the way that interaction went (the moose cow calming down after seeing her calf's disney-friendly and curious interaction with people, her calming down after physically interacting with people who ended up fighting for their rescue the hardest - as if she magically *knew* and could feel the difference between people and their intentions even through the firefighters' gear or the foreign smell of vet's medicine, and despite the fact that they were the most nervous and least experienced - still, she knew, somehow) that I could communicate this way with any and all animals 😅 When I went missing (which as a bullied kid was often ) my parents usually found me in "dangerous dog!!" warning -splattered kennels or in doghouses of chained up ones. With none of the dogs ever hurting me,I assume this must be the reason for said trait - a " logical" assumption that any and all such warnings are bull crap 😁Well, I wouldn't have lived long if born in area with large, fluffy carnivores, that's for sure... Still, I'm one of the "volunteers" who will try to lure wild boars away from local parks and playgrounds - and,on foot, attempt to shoo them so they don't get shot- so, maybe getting trampled by swine is my, less newsworthy, fate instead? 😁 They are all friend-shaped, to me.
Scottish wildcats (highland tigers) are my absolute favourite animal by far so it’s amazing to see someone with as big a platform as yours shine light on these small wildcat species that don’t usually see enough love
Scottish wildcats are in deep shit right now being critically endangered and sometimes considered functionally extinct. Since the gene pool has been so muddied by hybridization with….domestics….I will be donating to help their conservation.
@SA.L-X9c Be cautious and do research on the Scottish wild cat organisations before donating. I wasted a year doing a project on one of them and they turned out to be scammy bastards.
@SA.L-X9c it is true that their situation is dire, their cross-breeding with domestic cat breeds does more than just muddle their purity but also highland crosses struggle to survive the brutal highland winters which also removes the wildcat role from the ecosystem. with Highland wildcats preferring woodland habitat and domestics preferring grassland habitat, the full loss of pure wildcats would remove a key predator from Scotland’s forests which is disastrous for a country with an already massive lack of native mammalian predators
Camouflage is no joke and to be honest you don’t realize it until you’re face-to-face with a big cat after a couple minutes of not seeing them. I went to the San Francisco zoo, and we saw the snow leopard they had except we didn’t and we were looking for like five minutes before we found it and tbh??? Kinda scary cuz it was watching us the whole time, silently. We took my 10 month old baby brother at the time and even a crowd started to form around us, wondering where it was because obviously if a creature is missing at a zoo enclosure, but they say that it’s there there might be a little bit of an issue but I cannot express the terror when my mom says there it is and I think like five different people collectively look up and finally see it hiding on a ledge perfectly camouflaged and staring. It was relaxed, laying down and calm, but if that’s how good of a disguise it can have just laying and Vibing, I’d be scared to know what they can do when they’re really motivated. Thank goodness I’m not a mountain goat!
As cute as snow leopards are, everytime I see a photo of them camouflaging in the snowy mountain terrain, I get a little more thankful for having born as a human in a hospital instead of a mountain goat on some rock.
And that's with people looking for it inside of a limited space. Now imagine you're out in the middle of nowhere looking for food and there's one of these things somewhere within your field of vision, but you don't even know it's there. No wonder our brains are so eager to find faces everywhere. When you're not paying attention to every detail in the environment, anything that vaguely resembles the shape of two forward-facing eyes and a mouth could be either a big cat or another human, and failing to spot either could've been a death sentence for our ancestors
This is true for hunting too. We masked ourselves with piss and camouflage everywhere to bow hunt and let a herd of elk walk by and even literally arms reach away, they seemed to blend in. I was surprised because they’re loud on the feet it was like a mild stampede sound. We came upon some sleeping… invisible in tall grass. A funny looking branch clued me in wow that’s a male elk just sleeping. My dad is a virtuoso of seeing animals, it’s like he’s truly better than anyone I’ve seen. We’ll be driving and 100-150 yards out “ope coyote” and he will point and give references (he’s shit at doing that he thinks my eyes are his. Pointing to something past 10 feet is useless) and it takes me FOREVER to see them. Even while moving. Rabbits the same with winter coat and snow around them. If they move they die because they’re seen. Oh yeah and antelope (closest descendant is the giraffe btw) or pronghorn some call them, are also excellent from a distance. But it doesn’t matter, they can attain top speeds of 60mph for a half mile and 30mph for 20 miles. If a cheetah snuck up on one (unlikely, even if they lived here) they could kill one. But in reality if they are at a safe distance and have warning (sharp senses) they can CERTAINLY outrun a fuckin cheetah. That’s how they roll, they maintain a safe distance enough to outrun any predator. Native Americans used to build specific “runs” where a choke point is created and they “herd” the antelope toward this while the rest of the squad lays behind rocks in the choke point. Incredibly effective and I’ve found many of these. Prehistory fast food, in two ways man.
@azaririnI think about this all the time. The herds of 300 elk I see trudging through heavy snow, heavy snowfall, and freezing temps… god I feel bad for them. To cope I tell myself they don’t have as many cold based pain responses. Also their capes are fantastic. But still…. Christ. My chickens too. Like don’t your tootsies get cold ladies?
One time I suddenly "found" a whole tiger, only because it found me first and was starting to move in to close the deal. Fortunately it was safely within a secure enclosure, so it didn't get closer than rubbing its cheek on the fence between us before casually laying down and acting like it meant to do that all along. But for that hot split second, my brain did not care about all that fence, and an ancient primate just started screaming in the depths of my mind.
Thanks to my dear cat Molly, who randomly adopted me on on my 21st bday and lived for another 20 years, I've made it a point to be a friend to all cats. In her memory. In a few weeks I'll be adopting one of the strays that lives around where I work. I'd adopt her sooner, but I'm going on vacation in a week
I had an orange tabby that made it to 20 as well. Had to have him put down a couple of years ago. Still miss that little shit. My other cat, a rescue, is still with me, though. Going on 17 years. His health has declined, but he's hanging in there for now. I'm glad to see you got 20 great years with your fur ball. Hope you get many more with your next one!
I started with Sissy. She was the best. Now I have around 30 cats even raised one from a kitten. None of them have the personality that Sissy had. She was the first animal that I cried over.
Don't "adopt" strays. They are perfectly happy without your captivity. The video literally mentions idiots ignorantly catching wildcats as 'strays.' Adopt an animal that isn't adapting because it was abandoned or is in the pound.
@krishadyn5211I get what you're saying. There is another cat here who's doing really well for herself. The one that I'm thinking of adopting does alright too, I guess. She's also been around the facility for a while. Winter's coming up, though, so I worry about that. Also, it wouldn't be captivity. I'd definitely let her outside as much as she wants. I hate the idea of indoor cats, unless they choose it themselves. Anyhow, it's still up in the air. I'll take what you say into consideration
26:27 My hypothesis of why they hang out together is that they use the sent of each other to confuse both the ocelots pry and the possum's predators. It makes it easier for both to confuse their enemies to either run or yawn as they get away or stalk, respectively.
The partnership also means ocelots stumbled into the _best_ travel partners possible in terms of illness safety purely by accident since opossums can't get rabies.
Could also be similar to crows and wolves: oppossum does somthing for the kitty (to be determined - perhaps opossum's geared for detecting something useful for kitty?) and gets benefit of extra food no effort.
@fatherfeline I would say it's good to know that yes, they can get rabies, but it's also important to not demonize them as pests and rabid beasts, since they are very good at eating ticks. The lesser risk of rabies makes them good to have around.
Something I appreciate but don't often see said, is the way you give a genuine attempt to pronounce things accurately a lot of the time. Lots of people don't bother, so it's really nice when you demonstrate you've made the effort to say it correctly!
15:00 dropped in to add that lions are not kings of the jungle. Savannah. So theyve got that misnomer in common. Apparently, no one knows what a jungle is.
@FreakinIntrovertyou can’t have big cats over here, so idiots buy wolves and wolf-dogs instead. So many jokes about pittbulls eating kids, but wolf-dogs have way higher bite counts by population. All it takes is one clown to try to re-invent domestication with a toddler in the home, and the poor kid eats a darwin award for the parent.
It's less about actual physical size and more so the classifications of Big Cat being quite specific. I believe it includes leopards, lions, snow leopards, tigers and jaguars?
@shelbyjordan-p6y Domestic breed for sure. Best assumption was being dumped as breedject considering the size he's grown into, & the presence of amateur/unregistered operations found around the area.
As a Portuguese watcher, I'm really happy to see one of most important animals in my country be mentioned. Also, I can confirm that the Iberian Lynx has been closely protected and given *a lot* of conservation efforts over here. They're completely blacklisted from hunts, and almost all adults are tagged with trackers, meaning that any "smart" hunter that decides to mount one of them over their fireplace will get a direct visit from the Po-Po, with punishments that include prison time and high fines.
The full quote on European Wildcats is pretty hard. "It has long been stated that the European wildcat is untameable. There was a time when I did not believe this ... My optimism was daunted when I made acquaintance with Beelzebina, Princess of Devils. She came from the Highlands of Scotland, a half-grown kitten that spat and scratched in fiercest resentment. Her pale green eyes glared savage hatred at human-beings, and all attempts to establish friendly relations with her failed. She grew less afraid, but as her timidity departed, her savagery increased."
I have an Asiatic Wildcat-4 to be exact!!! OSU obtained a few for research a couple years back . The asiatic Wildcat is immune to MANY feline diseases including feline equivalent to AIDS. OSU was trying to develop vaccines or a medication for domestic cats 🐈. Then the university decided to breed the wildcats with house cats to see how many generations they would be immune to the diseases for. Anyway, when they were done they had a “lottery “ within the departments for anyone who wanted a cat or kitten. I got 1 full Asian wildcat and a half wildcat half domestic kitten. Then they had kittens and I kept 2. Edit: they look and act very much like an overgrown house cat ,but with spots instead of stripes, they have a bit of a mane and mine have huge ear tassels like a caracal. The others from the program don’t have such big beautiful tassels like mine(mine are prettier and they know it 😂) We are currently expecting babies and I can’t wait!!!
I love OSU! The gameplay is simply addictive: despite it being nothing more than clicking the circles or sliding them across the screen, it's one of the most engaging activities I have encountered. By the way, OSU has its own cats! Nekos, to be precise. Weebs, being feline enjoyers, absolutely adore these. I'm glad you mentioned this wonderful rhytm game, it's one of my favorite. It's nice encountering people who share your interests!🤗🤠😺
Depends they’re much less likely to eat a human than a dog is. If you take a look at the statistics, more people get mauled by a dog, then have ever been mauled by a cat.
22:30 just one bit of extra info I wanna add here: this mainly applies to winter when there’s few other food options available for the Lynx. In spring, summer and fall, their diet can be way more diverse and include various different rodents, birds and other small animals. They’ll even take down deer on rare occasions (though interestingly, the Eurasian lynx actually hunts deer quite often).
I think in the case of the Eurasian lynx it helps that it's both considerably larger than the lynx species in North America and has no larger cat species to compete with.
@An_Actual_Rat I'm in Northern Europe and the basicest of basic large animal forest foodweb stuff (as in, primary school level) goes something like this: wild cat? lynx. ambushes deer if able, smaller if not. elk is too big, rabbit is often too fast. wild dog? wolf. pack-hunts deer and elk if able, smaller if not. bear? will get elk and deer if able, plants if not. elk? not too afraid of anything but humans. deer? afraid of everything larger than a rabbit. boar will eat anything it can get. Also here for us lynx is the only wild cat species at all.
@mirjam3553 I'm from Sweden, though I live in Scania, which has been mostly lynx free for a while. I'd like for more to be around since they can help out with our boar problem (they may snatch small ones when able).
@An_Actual_Rat It also doesn't hurt that Roe deer, the most common European deer species by far, are significantly smaller than their American relatives, averaging at less than half the size of Whitetail and Mule Deer.
@DaSoda70 True, roe deer are rather small and are a large part of their diet. The true mark of their prowess is that that they can take down red deer (4th largest deer), especially during winter.
Good point 😅 I was never a cat person because I'm allergic. But here I am with my adult son who has 3 of them, in my 6th decade. 😂 Oh well, if you can't beat your allergies, get some daily exposure therapy. 😂🙌 It only really bothers me if they scratch me which obviously is frequently. In 10 years I will lyk if getting scratched eventually lessens the reaction. It's the most intense itch I've ever had and I'm not a happy camper for about a half hour, the longest half hour in life. But I love my grandkitties. ❤
Fascist and anti fascist are so casually throw around that its meaning its slowly being erased. Most people dont even know who Giovanni Gentile was and still label, so irresponsable
16:06 man I could feel the love in your voice! Dude, seriously, you're one of the best channels out there. Love your work and attitude, I'm glad you're living what you love!
There's this one bobcat that walks through my property sometimes. I once saw them go up a tree and swipe at an owl, the screaming match that followed was legendary
I actually live in Scotland and recently visited a wildlife reserve. I was lucky to see a Scottish tiger/wild cat, it was actually a breeding program i believe. It was amazing but so sad to know how low the numbers of them are, I think its roughly 400. I hope we can save them but it'll take hard work.
Just to throw in an extremely rare subspecies that separated at the end of the last ice age, there is a Scottish wildcat which has developed unique physical characteristics from the European wildcat, such as a blunter, more heavily ringed tail and thicker fur. The problem is that hybridisation has made them increasingly rare and hard to distinguish from the average tabby. You mentioned one with numbers as low as 60 remaining, but the Scottish wildcat population is another of which the genetically pure numbers may well have dropped below 100 in total at one point, though captive breeding has seen this number increase by another 50% in recent years. These little ones didn’t have the most creative scientists when it came to naming, so are stuck with _felis silvestris silvestris_ meaning “cat of the forest…of the forest”Almost as bad as _ursus arctos arctos_ for the Eurasian brown bear, literally translating to “bear bear bear”, or _gulo gulo_ for the wolverine meaning “glutton glutton”. We definitely need to make sure there is more creativity from scientists when it comes to the naming process of species. Perhaps with some in higher positions working on adapting some of the less informed older names along with those that are just intensely dismal. They could have gone with “felis silvestris caledonia” at least, for the sake of variation. Still, who am I to argue with the scientific naming committee?
@deathandcats I never knew of this. Thank you so much for sharing this knowledge. I have absolutely no standing in the science community, but a love of linguistics, so I had always just assumed that once a species was given a scientific name, that was that and that it is simply to be accepted. I feel like you’ve just opened up an entirely new box of wonders I never knew existed!
Just a quick correction from my phone’s autoincorrect. The Latin name should say “Felis silvestris Caledoniae” (the added E is what makes it “Cat of the forest of Caledonia” rather than simply “Cat of the forest Caledonia”. If there are proper Latin speakers, feel welcome to correct me if I am incorrect in this since I am not very well versed in Latin declensions. Either way, this was how I meant to write it and if I’m correct then great. If not, I’ll stick to the other languages I actually studied.
I see a lot of stuff online about dog people vs cat people. Look, real dogs like everyone, it's not that hard to get on a dogs good side. But cats? You know you've made it as a person when a cat takes a liking to you...
Massive W for making your longest video about cats
As a cat owner, I agree. But as someone who also loves dogs, we now need a half hour doggy video
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i was just thinkin the same thing as i hit the 15 min mark 😆
@anothergamingchannel2656 idk we got a lot of doggo videos
homestuck in the year 2025, what a time to be alive eh
“Antelope Aimbot” is the coolest and best way to describe cheetahs 😭😭
The cheetah's tail. 🐈
Cheetah's tail.
Yes, I seen the above comment, im double correcting.
Dogs are still BETTER!!! 😤😤😤💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻
the prophesies of JESUS coming back from the book of Revelation are happening, be warned. am just saying what is in the bible and if you think of what I said rationally then you would understand why you should really be taking JESUS seriously. plus, if you take the wisdom in the bible, it is a must for your life to change in a good way man, I haven't felt better in my life. Am not judging am just saying what is in the bible please don't kill me.
@FrankMadoffe if you actually care, just know that basically nobody likes you saying stuff like this in completely unrelated comment sections. At least go to a video about religion, then you'd maybe find some people who care about what you're saying.
Why is bro saying domestics like its a slur😂😂😭😭
If cats could talk, it definitely would be
*cough* domestics 😒
It is. Like the y word and the n word.
Because they aren't actually domesticated lol
Cats "domesticated" themselves, aka they just decide to live near us because they know we provide food and shelter. But if a stray cat was to grow up in a forest/jungle, it would be just as wild and good at hunting as its wild flavors.
Unlike dogs, which are too far gone to be "wild" again. Most they can do is breed with wolves or coyotes and create pseudo-dogs that are wilder than the parent
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How the hell are wild mice not extinct? Everyone and everything is trying to kill them on sight.
1.) Insane reproduction rate. They tend to have 5-10 litters in a year and each litter has 6-8 babies. Thats one mouse mom making 30-80 babies a year
2.) They are beasts in their own right, very agile and very good at hiding
Because there are zettatons of it
Because they breed insanely large litters, and they do it often some species have like 4-5 large litters a year if I remember correctly been a long time since I researched them for school, think rabbits on sex drugs and more babies
Not only that but for whatever reason they can be 100 generations inbred sibling to sibling and still be fairly healthy overall. Thats what lab rats and lab mice are, they arent considered a good lab animal until they are at LEAST 50 generations to 100 generations inbred so they are all genetically homogenous.
So if you put one male rat and one female rat, or one male and one female mouse on an island alone together and come back a couple of years later there will be thousands of perfectly healthy near clones of those two.
@atashgallagher5139 Jewelery of facts
Glad to see Pallas Cats here. I love those little grumps.
But most importantly, the body is round.
@direct2397the Body is round
When seeing a camera outside its den, a Pallas cat crept up to it, and we get the lovely “What dis?” slow rise of the cat’s head into frame. It is too cute!
@direct2397with long, dense fur
I don't get why people keep saying they're ugly. They are adorable and fluffy.
Cat: Fear Me.
Human: Awwww
Cat: Dammit.
😂🤣😆
Especially cheetahs like at 3:25
😂😂
I wanna pet them so bad
Sounds about right
Fun Fact: Nepal has 13 confirmed wild cat species despite it being 22 times smaller than India.
Damn and I thought India was cool just for having the Bengal Tiger
How many does India have then?
@Agent71915
Kinda rough country in Nepal. Likely species differentiates based on bio regional barriers 😮
When did Nepal get internet?
The pallas cat looks like it's one dad joke away from killing everyone in sight, they're so funny
To me they look more like grumpy sentient clouds
A half hour talking about nothing but cats? We are blessed indeed.
Hearing about wildcat instead of
domestics
is also a nice bonus
Giant or tiny, wild or domestic, docile or deadly....I love them all. We don't deserve cats, but God spoils us with these riches. We just need to do better to protect and cherish them!
@lisabelle7553 Couldn't have said better myself. 🙂
Yes ❤
kitty go meow meow
Kittiy go Meow Meow :D
Plane go brrrrrrrrrt
Dogs go bark bark
Mwaw~
kitties go
miew miew
lasers go
piew piew
laser kitties go
piew miew piew miew
~ lucy in the sky with lasers from koth_trainsawlaser
true story: i worked third shift in a nurse home in an especially rural part of the appalachians. sometimes, we'd get a call about 3 in the morning from a neighbor freaked out because they thought one of our residents had escaped and was in the woods screaming for help.
nope.
lynx.
I saw a short with this kid insisting that a lynx call was some cryptid. Nope, you need to learn wild cat calls.
Volunteered at a zoo surrounded by neighborhoods. Local cops would get calls for "someone screaming" - during mating season for elk. Had a big bull elk at the zoo who could bugle really loudly. Calls were mostly from people who hadn't lived in the area very long 😊
had the same thing with foxes
🤣🤣🤣 silly silly
👁️
That post was not lying, that is indeed a cat.
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Important note! Part of the reason that house cats are social is because ,as he stated, they are descended from African wildcats. African wild cats are social in nature, unlike the European wildcats, which are not.
Maybe my cat is European. Loves me and scared of literally everything else.
Did not know that
Strange... it's like the reverse of people.
@lokithecat-g70 Not really. The people from Africa that I’ve met were very social.
@lokithecat-g70 Womp womp
12:20 my local zoo recently found out that fishing cats are amazing escape artists as well. The fishing kitten was regularly breaking out of its enclosure and walking itself back at the end of the night😂
that sound so cat like as in something my own cat's would do
That is the most cat thing I have ever heard
One of my cats has opened the screen door that we had and walked up to me meowing while I was gardening. So I can definitely see that happening
“Your door sucks. Feed me.”
Hopefully it didn't make it over to any of the other exhibits for a "play" date.
THE CAT APPEARING AFTER LIKING IS SO PURFECT 😺
Aww, that is a sweet touch!
I had to see it for myself, and was pleased indeed. I wonder why no other RUclipsrs do something like that. I've never seen it before. I imagine there's a range of different emojis that can be used, but only our homie here has ever used it.
I think that's youtube itself that does that. For example, when liking music, you get a musical note animation.
I love the really tiny wild cats. The fact they're so effective at catching prey but also effective at hiding from humans. Tho wish we could learn more about them without accidentally causing their end. 😢
I have a tiny domestic cat that is a great hunter. He's pretty friendly too.
Makes me more grateful for our domestic kitties
YO A CAT APPEARS WHEN YOU HIT THE LIKE BUTTON HE WASNT CAPPIN
HE IN FACT WAS NOT CAPPIN
Am I blind?!?!
I missed the cat...!😢
Does it only work if you watch the whole video first? Or does it only work on computers? I've tried several times and nothing's different.
@faolan2174 Idk
it is so cool
Fun Fact!!
My mom remembers when she was a kid her farm cat disappeared for a fortnight and came back preggo. Only one of the kittens survived, so they kept it. It was the nastiest, most violent and grumpy cat ever. But had his sweet moments, so everybody in the family loved him and tolerated the abuse. He was exceptional as a mouser too.
Anyway, years later they took him to the vet for an ear infection and turns out? - 1/2 European Wild cat.
Mama cat got herself some barbarian stud and the result was a demon cat that was never meant to be a domestic but was forced into being loved. 😂😂😂
HAAAA! Ya, we love our grumpy little demons, We have a barn cat, he does nothing but hiss and growl when you feed him. Hisses WHILE he eats. even when your standing like 20 ft away =D Love that little bastard, i've seen him killing the moles in our yard which really helps with our garden... i mean he also likes pissing ON my window, like right on the glass while im sitting here gaming.... I know who the dominate animal is, and it ain't me.
@thecommenter9678 I thought it was bad enough my (former) farm cat will rush me to get out of my car and come inside after I've pulled in the drive (by jumping in my car window and either snuggling me with occasional squeaks or by trying to push me out)! I'm now grateful my feral kittie's way of showing her place in the food chain is by stealing my blankets and/or pushing me out of bed whilst she preforms the feline version of a jack.
Mine just runs and hides whenever anyone or anything that isn't me shows up, even when I've got her snuggling on my lap but I wouldn't change her for anything as she is the sweetest girl imaginable! Doubly so when I think of the pest problems she remedies (she is scared of birds though, luckily)
@SandPounder =D ya my little demon sure isn't loving, but i love him... not that he lets me pet him.... He was dumped on my property years ago, he was in terrible health, which was the only reason we caught him and got him to a vet to get healthy and snipped....
He has never EVER been caught again =D he seems to hate us, but he still sticks around.... eats the food we give him, stares at us and hangs around when we work in the garden.
He is such a weird cat... we have many other cats though, as people keep dumping them on our property cause we are rural i guess.
I knew it wasn't domestic from the moment I got to most if the litter not surviving. The genetics of it is fascinating. And as an early gen male, it's highly likely he was sterile because of the difference in species.
Yikes
14:30 The cat's name is perfectly accurate. It's the English language that is at fault for misusing the Sanskrit word _jaṅgala_ to refer to the literal opposite of what it actually means (an arid, scrubby landscape).
Thank you for the added context!! :)
We all know Bobcat is just short for it's full name - Robert Feline.
Can’t be putting my man’s full government name in the comments! 😂
Furname*
wonder if they hate being called 'bob'?
i know i do.
One of my cat's aliases is Will Feral, aka Wild Bill, so if I ever get another cat then he will be Robert Feline.
Funny thing, my name is pronounced Féline (french for feline) and my dad's name is Robert.
A thirty minute video on a tuseday!?!?!?! Weve been blessed
Its not thirty minutes its 29:33
@Crusher888its basically 30 minutes
ABOUT CATSS!!!
Well said.
I read your description & hope you're closer to your goal :)
Amen 🙏
For the entire 4 days this video has been getting reccomended to me, I keep getting distracted by the title and go to make fun of my cat for being Small.
Were you going up to it, poking it and saying "Hee hee. You small."? I don't know why that little image popped into my head - or why you're wearing a toga in it.
@madoldwelshwomana toga? 😭😭
@mlijah2730 Like the Romans wore in the Senate
About the 1st half of this comment, yeah
same lol this vid has been recommended to me for FOREVER
Love how when that tiger roars, even the other tiger was like 'Oh jesus fuck--'
Also, the Florida version of the bobcat was also known to hunt Burmese pythons doing good for the community and the wildlife there too.😂👍
Yoink
"was"
Sounds like the pythons won that war.
@dannyarcher6370 The panther is what the OP meant, and they do take some, there just aren't enough cats for the stupid manmade problem.
So, Servals were the ones that hunted pythons? I hope no one illegally or legally removed the cat(s) because they are wild. Servals aren't big or small. They are medium sized. I've never heard of any Serval attacking a human. Can anyone let me know??
Heard a bobcat attack a fawn in Illinois. Tu hen watched him superman through the woods about five feet from me at eye level.
I was upset he attacked one of a set of twin fawns. So I yelled get out of here and he turned his head to look at me as he sailed by.
He hit the ground running to the edge of an open area in the woods. The he walked along the edge glaring at me like a tough tony until two adult deer nearly ran him over trying to flee from danger (the bobcat). I'm just now realizing they were all running away the same direction.
What followed the bobcat up to about five yards away from me was momma deer stomping the ground so hard I could feel it.
She paced back and forth pounding the ground torn between stomping the life out of the bobcat and protecting her wounded offspring.
She stayed with her fawn. I didn't have courage to check where the fawn was. I didn't want to know.
Those were the loudest bleats I've ever heard.
I hope it was strong enough.
I know little half grown tough tonys gotta eat.
Little buggar growled at me about a week before until I caught his big yellow eye shine and said "there you are". He took off like a streak of shhhhht.
He's still around, growing up.
At least he never nailed one of the triplets.
They're giving out permits for bobcats now in Illinois.
I guess that means they finally escaped near extinction.
But this is the only live bobcat I have ever seen.
I'd never seen a wild eagle in my county or anywhere until I was 50 because of ddt. I'm glad wild critters are coming back.
I just wanna acknowledge how snappy and witty the writing is for your videos. Great work, and thanks for filling the Animal Planet-shaped hole in my heart.
Animal Planet was the goat
You’ve just articulated perfectly what I’ve been trying to put my finger on for a while 👏
@Hedonism124 I love writing where they drop a genius joke like it's nothing and then move on before you even register it.
Thank you for the kind words friend, glad you enjoy the videos!
I'm in my 50's and like your vids because:
1. I love animals, 2. there's lots of good information, and 3. you present it all with a sense of humor. Roll on young man!
Best animal video creator on YT, by far. Not only do they always make me laugh, but I have learned quite a lot from them.
I like the part where he says things about stuff and junk
I'm pushing 65 and I love his use of language to bring across so much knowledge.
I’m in my 40s and I feel like I shouldn’t watch it. Like a 70 year old listening to nirvana in 1993. 😂
One of the most important lessons I've gotten from my Mom to date: never let your age stop you from enjoying the things that make you happy. You're only truly "too old" if you let yourself act like it. :)
THE LIKE BUTTON IS A KITTYYYYYY
can confirm
9:25 That is the cutest, angriest looking cat I've ever seen.
Then again... 10:00 sandcat might be the bias breaker on this. Definitely at least ties for first place.
Life of Boris commented on the OG video
Cloudies sound like a human mimicking cat noises, that alone makes them so comedically precious that it's impossible not to like them.
They have the most gorgeous fur coats. And no, I would never. Their coats belong on them, not us. 😊
My grandma had European Wild Cat, so called "żbik". He started coming to her workplace (she was a security keeping an eye on construction machines in a parking lot near the wood) she gave him some food here and there and soon he became friends with her and started acting like security dog, he didn't allow anybody to cross the gate, unless she called him to get in the office. She had it easy since cat appeared, especially on night shifts, she could take a nap while the cat was guarding. People were scared of him, so if anybody came to borrow a machine they had to scream for help.
I don't have to mention nothing was ever stolen from the property on her shift.
3:40 im all ears
Earhood is a spectrum, or something
Hahahahahahaha.
Hahahahahahaha.
So, you're proud of that? I'm glad I'm not your mom
@shabbazabdullahwhy so mad, shabbaz?
So refreshing having a real person. Getting tired of AI videos that have the wrong pictures lol
Well dislike those videos and report them for what they are?
@Whydidudoitcrushinator putting out ai slop is not against youtube's tos, sadly
the more you’ll watch ai videos the more you’ll get them, i have never encountered one thankfully bc the rare times i saw a ai thumbnail i immediately tap the three dots and tap not interested
Baycats are the most successful feline introverts ever; they were confirmed to exist but now the whole species can't be located. Not even to prove they're deceased.
Apple has no excuse to stop naming Mac OS after cats
Apple abandons cats and their hosts.
*TIMESTAMPS* ☕(=w= )👍
*For each cats mentioned in the video* 🐈
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1:36 Cheetah
3:29 Serval
4:44 Caracal
6:28 African Golden Cat
7:12 Asian Golden Cat
7:33 African Wild cat
8:16 European Wild Cat
9:08 Asian Wild Cat
9:28 Black-footed cat
10:21 Sand Cat
11:43 Fishing Cat
12:42 Flat-headed cat
13:14 Leopard Cat
14:06 Borneo Bay Cat
14:53 Jungle Cat
15:30 Marbled Cat
16:03 Clouded Leopard
17:29 Rusty-spotted cat
18:05 Pallas's cat
19:16 Chinese Mountain Cat
20:11 Cougar
21:41 Lynx Types
21:51 Eurasian Lynx
22:00 Balkan Lynx
22:07 Iberian Lynx
22:24 Canada Lynx
22:43 Bobcat
23:23 Jaguarundi
24:36 Andean Mountain Cat
25:08 Pampas Cat
25:41 Geoffroy's cat
26:23 Ocelot
27:07 Margay
27:40 Kodkod
28:09 Oncilla
Thank you! Now I know how to spell Kodkod so I can google it
Goated
I wonder how long this took.
This needs to be pinned! Took way too long for me to scroll and find this lol
King, you drop this 👑
I live in southern Indiana. About 10 miles from me, we had a Bobcat kill a DONKEY. Yeah. The coyote killing specialist had a bobcat jump on its back and claw and bite until it bled out. Two weeks later, it killed another donkey at the same farm.
Wow!😮
@maryeckel9682cats, coyotes, and wolves almost always try to bite the back of the neck.
Tf
Sounds like this was personal.
That bobcat definitely had a coyote bff that got nerfed
Honestly, as a Florida man myself, after hearing about the bobcat killing a shark thing, I feel like now's the time he makes a video about Florida. So Cas, if you're reading this, may you please make a video on Florida? I'd feel really happy and proud.
Statistically, in Florida, a bear, an alligator, and a shark have been in a three way battle at least once.
That's insane 😅
That's Florida! 😂
@drewwendell
I'm betting on the bear.
That's America's wang
The fact that a mountain lion is a "small cat" got me offended and it's not even about me. Like, yeah, the logic is there, but where's the justice? 😂😂
7:12 "-theres also the asian golden cat of...... * genuinely checks * ..... asia."
to be fair, given the dumbass names some species get, it's not a given
Considering the fact that the "Jungle" Cat lives everywhere except where their name would have you think? I can't blame him
oh he absolutely got me with that one! hilarious 🤣🤣🤣🤣
It was a bit
@unpopularopinion298 wOw ReAlLY?!?
Yeah I'm 100% guilty of thinking "Why fear if friend-shaped?" whenever I look at these guys, I'm in the same boat as you CasGeo.
I'm definitely with you though, people need to stop trying to get these cats as pets. Just knowing about them is enough.
I would be chill with some of these coming through my yard occasionally, but not more than that tbh. Even if they are really cute
Friend-sized, not friend-shaped. Their shape is not so different from a mountain lion (indeed, mountain lions exhibit many of the same play behaviors as domestic cats), an animal that will kill solitary humans in their territory(i.e. wherever the mountain lion feels comfortable).
@Oddmanoutre I said what I said. From a camera's perspective, I see a cougar, a cheetah, and a clouded leopard with those *massive teeth* and my brain is like "can I pet dat cat?"
I'm well aware of how stupid that is though. IRL I would never do such a thing and don't condone it, period. Never approach a wild animal, especially a predator. Give them their space.
@KerianHalcyon Enjoy the intrusive thoughts, but don't let them win. Good on you. Seriously.
@KerianHalcyonYup. I'm in the same boat although sometimes, the intrusive thoughts win. I once had the privilege of petting not one but two wild moose (meese?) - unfortunately, in rescue circumstances (that thankfully ended well - in the mom's full recovery and reunion...and also in me almost getting charged with criminal property damage for cutting and filing down spikes on the fence which claimed it's fourth moose victim this year -first one non-fatally thanks to people being in the area - with the owner refusing to take action another year in the row). My toxic trait is inferring from the way that interaction went (the moose cow calming down after seeing her calf's disney-friendly and curious interaction with people, her calming down after physically interacting with people who ended up fighting for their rescue the hardest - as if she magically *knew* and could feel the difference between people and their intentions even through the firefighters' gear or the foreign smell of vet's medicine, and despite the fact that they were the most nervous and least experienced - still, she knew, somehow) that I could communicate this way with any and all animals 😅
When I went missing (which as a bullied kid was often ) my parents usually found me in "dangerous dog!!" warning -splattered kennels or in doghouses of chained up ones. With none of the dogs ever hurting me,I assume this must be the reason for said trait - a " logical" assumption that any and all such warnings are bull crap 😁Well, I wouldn't have lived long if born in area with large, fluffy carnivores, that's for sure... Still, I'm one of the "volunteers" who will try to lure wild boars away from local parks and playgrounds - and,on foot, attempt to shoo them so they don't get shot- so, maybe getting trampled by swine is my, less newsworthy, fate instead? 😁
They are all friend-shaped, to me.
I swear these cat species are underrated. I wish more people talked about them,
I also wished they got better names
Same
Agreed! I love servals but somehow nobody knows what they are.
12:40 Just call it the “Otter Cat”, it kinda looks like one.
Oh dude Jane Goodall passed away today at 91
R. I. P.
🙏🏿🙏🏿
Dayum.
RIP Jane, you were the realest
NOO! R.I.P.
Small cats are so fascinating and criminally underrated!
Scottish wildcats (highland tigers) are my absolute favourite animal by far so it’s amazing to see someone with as big a platform as yours shine light on these small wildcat species that don’t usually see enough love
Scottish wildcats are in deep shit right now being critically endangered and sometimes considered functionally extinct. Since the gene pool has been so muddied by hybridization with….domestics….I will be donating to help their conservation.
@SA.L-X9c Be cautious and do research on the Scottish wild cat organisations before donating. I wasted a year doing a project on one of them and they turned out to be scammy bastards.
@SA.L-X9c it is true that their situation is dire, their cross-breeding with domestic cat breeds does more than just muddle their purity but also highland crosses struggle to survive the brutal highland winters which also removes the wildcat role from the ecosystem. with Highland wildcats preferring woodland habitat and domestics preferring grassland habitat, the full loss of pure wildcats would remove a key predator from Scotland’s forests which is disastrous for a country with an already massive lack of native mammalian predators
no cares about scotland 🏴
@ashleyoasis7948 0/10 ragebait
The way servals attempt to deescalate a situation is the best thing I've seen all month.
Camouflage is no joke and to be honest you don’t realize it until you’re face-to-face with a big cat after a couple minutes of not seeing them. I went to the San Francisco zoo, and we saw the snow leopard they had except we didn’t and we were looking for like five minutes before we found it and tbh??? Kinda scary cuz it was watching us the whole time, silently. We took my 10 month old baby brother at the time and even a crowd started to form around us, wondering where it was because obviously if a creature is missing at a zoo enclosure, but they say that it’s there there might be a little bit of an issue but I cannot express the terror when my mom says there it is and I think like five different people collectively look up and finally see it hiding on a ledge perfectly camouflaged and staring. It was relaxed, laying down and calm, but if that’s how good of a disguise it can have just laying and Vibing, I’d be scared to know what they can do when they’re really motivated. Thank goodness I’m not a mountain goat!
As cute as snow leopards are, everytime I see a photo of them camouflaging in the snowy mountain terrain, I get a little more thankful for having born as a human in a hospital instead of a mountain goat on some rock.
And that's with people looking for it inside of a limited space. Now imagine you're out in the middle of nowhere looking for food and there's one of these things somewhere within your field of vision, but you don't even know it's there. No wonder our brains are so eager to find faces everywhere. When you're not paying attention to every detail in the environment, anything that vaguely resembles the shape of two forward-facing eyes and a mouth could be either a big cat or another human, and failing to spot either could've been a death sentence for our ancestors
This is true for hunting too. We masked ourselves with piss and camouflage everywhere to bow hunt and let a herd of elk walk by and even literally arms reach away, they seemed to blend in. I was surprised because they’re loud on the feet it was like a mild stampede sound.
We came upon some sleeping… invisible in tall grass. A funny looking branch clued me in wow that’s a male elk just sleeping.
My dad is a virtuoso of seeing animals, it’s like he’s truly better than anyone I’ve seen. We’ll be driving and 100-150 yards out “ope coyote” and he will point and give references (he’s shit at doing that he thinks my eyes are his. Pointing to something past 10 feet is useless) and it takes me FOREVER to see them. Even while moving.
Rabbits the same with winter coat and snow around them. If they move they die because they’re seen.
Oh yeah and antelope (closest descendant is the giraffe btw) or pronghorn some call them, are also excellent from a distance.
But it doesn’t matter, they can attain top speeds of 60mph for a half mile and 30mph for 20 miles. If a cheetah snuck up on one (unlikely, even if they lived here) they could kill one. But in reality if they are at a safe distance and have warning (sharp senses) they can CERTAINLY outrun a fuckin cheetah.
That’s how they roll, they maintain a safe distance enough to outrun any predator. Native Americans used to build specific “runs” where a choke point is created and they “herd” the antelope toward this while the rest of the squad lays behind rocks in the choke point. Incredibly effective and I’ve found many of these. Prehistory fast food, in two ways man.
@azaririnI think about this all the time.
The herds of 300 elk I see trudging through heavy snow, heavy snowfall, and freezing temps… god I feel bad for them.
To cope I tell myself they don’t have as many cold based pain responses. Also their capes are fantastic. But still…. Christ.
My chickens too. Like don’t your tootsies get cold ladies?
One time I suddenly "found" a whole tiger, only because it found me first and was starting to move in to close the deal.
Fortunately it was safely within a secure enclosure, so it didn't get closer than rubbing its cheek on the fence between us before casually laying down and acting like it meant to do that all along.
But for that hot split second, my brain did not care about all that fence, and an ancient primate just started screaming in the depths of my mind.
Thanks to my dear cat Molly, who randomly adopted me on on my 21st bday and lived for another 20 years, I've made it a point to be a friend to all cats. In her memory. In a few weeks I'll be adopting one of the strays that lives around where I work. I'd adopt her sooner, but I'm going on vacation in a week
I had an orange tabby that made it to 20 as well. Had to have him put down a couple of years ago. Still miss that little shit. My other cat, a rescue, is still with me, though. Going on 17 years. His health has declined, but he's hanging in there for now. I'm glad to see you got 20 great years with your fur ball. Hope you get many more with your next one!
I started with Sissy. She was the best. Now I have around 30 cats even raised one from a kitten. None of them have the personality that Sissy had. She was the first animal that I cried over.
Thank you for visiting us, Molly ❤️🩹🙏🌈🍀✨
Don't "adopt" strays. They are perfectly happy without your captivity. The video literally mentions idiots ignorantly catching wildcats as 'strays.' Adopt an animal that isn't adapting because it was abandoned or is in the pound.
@krishadyn5211I get what you're saying. There is another cat here who's doing really well for herself. The one that I'm thinking of adopting does alright too, I guess. She's also been around the facility for a while. Winter's coming up, though, so I worry about that. Also, it wouldn't be captivity. I'd definitely let her outside as much as she wants. I hate the idea of indoor cats, unless they choose it themselves. Anyhow, it's still up in the air. I'll take what you say into consideration
26:27 My hypothesis of why they hang out together is that they use the sent of each other to confuse both the ocelots pry and the possum's predators. It makes it easier for both to confuse their enemies to either run or yawn as they get away or stalk, respectively.
The partnership also means ocelots stumbled into the _best_ travel partners possible in terms of illness safety purely by accident since opossums can't get rabies.
Could also be similar to crows and wolves: oppossum does somthing for the kitty (to be determined - perhaps opossum's geared for detecting something useful for kitty?) and gets benefit of extra food no effort.
@submariNervous That's not actually true. The opossum's low body temperature makes it difficult for the rabies virus to survive, but not impossible
@fatherfeline I would say it's good to know that yes, they can get rabies, but it's also important to not demonize them as pests and rabid beasts, since they are very good at eating ticks. The lesser risk of rabies makes them good to have around.
The sand cat looks like if a fennec fox decided it didn't want to be a canine anymore.
I've learned more about small cats in these 29:32 than I did in the last 50 years. Thanks for the video.
Each and every single one is a marvel in their own right
Dude the fact that he says "domestics" like a slur is so fucking hilarious to me
Not hilarious when a house cat decides the wet food is too wet and has a fucking temper tantrum like damn if you dont like it go hunt your own
If not friend, then why friend shaped
Something I appreciate but don't often see said, is the way you give a genuine attempt to pronounce things accurately a lot of the time. Lots of people don't bother, so it's really nice when you demonstrate you've made the effort to say it correctly!
15:00 dropped in to add that lions are not kings of the jungle. Savannah. So theyve got that misnomer in common. Apparently, no one knows what a jungle is.
For a long time, it was a general term to refer to wild, untamed land as a whole.
What about the king of the concrete jungle? Lol I guess that varies by region, though.
@FreakinIntrovertyou can’t have big cats over here, so idiots buy wolves and wolf-dogs instead. So many jokes about pittbulls eating kids, but wolf-dogs have way higher bite counts by population. All it takes is one clown to try to re-invent domestication with a toddler in the home, and the poor kid eats a darwin award for the parent.
In fairness there is the Gir Lion species in Western India that doesn't live in a savannah
@FreakinIntrovert That would be foxes
18:06 The body is round.
This guy manuls
With long, dense fur.
And small, circular ears.
18:48 so like, a street cat.
19:41 If anyone else was trying to pause to read, the text says "most mysterious animal in this wilderness" in English and Chinese
4:14 “You’re not that guy” ahh situation
I’m feeling way too smug about knowing about every single one of these cats. It was a hyperfixation of mine last year
disappoint where is African black footed cat?? They are the most badass like honeybadge but not even mentioned??
@Victoria-t5fhere it is! 9:09 😁
17:40 more like the facehugger of cats...
20:30 a cat that weights more then me still being classified as a smal cat is kinda weird
Yeah. Small cats comes in all sizes it seems.
It's less about actual physical size and more so the classifications of Big Cat being quite specific. I believe it includes leopards, lions, snow leopards, tigers and jaguars?
Guess that makes you a smaller cat.
Small for a cat.
26:50 Okay which studio is gonna make an animated flick about a Possum and an Ocelot traveling together?
"Babou and...[insert possum name]"
Ocelots are crepuscular.
Archer taught me that lol.
I don't care as long as they call it "Posselot"
Minecraft
@BlueHoovez well yes but actually no.
I say that meme reference because while ocelots are in Minecraft, opossums aren't.
I have a wild cat at home. My grandma found him in a dumpster in South Dakota. He likes running on his exercise wheel.
@shelbyjordan-p6y Domestic breed for sure. Best assumption was being dumped as breedject considering the size he's grown into, & the presence of amateur/unregistered operations found around the area.
Oh my gosh a cat appeared
4:36 "You're not that guy Pal"
“I am that guy”
You have lost your mind 😂
@stevendelancy6421just go like… 20 seconds back
My favorite Leopard story is still the poor one at the Denver Zoo with hiccups. It's hard to look dignified when your abdominal muscle is spasming.
As a Portuguese watcher, I'm really happy to see one of most important animals in my country be mentioned.
Also, I can confirm that the Iberian Lynx has been closely protected and given *a lot* of conservation efforts over here. They're completely blacklisted from hunts, and almost all adults are tagged with trackers, meaning that any "smart" hunter that decides to mount one of them over their fireplace will get a direct visit from the Po-Po, with punishments that include prison time and high fines.
10:34 omg I thought he had a missing eye here!
The full quote on European Wildcats is pretty hard. "It has long been stated that the European wildcat is untameable. There was a time when I did not believe this ... My optimism was daunted when I made acquaintance with Beelzebina, Princess of Devils. She came from the Highlands of Scotland, a half-grown kitten that spat and scratched in fiercest resentment. Her pale green eyes glared savage hatred at human-beings, and all attempts to establish friendly relations with her failed. She grew less afraid, but as her timidity departed, her savagery increased."
BEELZEBINA
It is now customary to call these tiny terrors after literal demons
as a European, I am telling you, human euros are just different flavours of the European wild cat. should be treated as such, regardless of pretense..
Can we settle the argument that a cougar, puma, and mountain lion are all the same cat?
Yes, they are
There is no argument?
That always confused me a little since English is not my native language. Thanks for clearing that up.
Add Catamount and Painter to that list. =^[.]^=
Cougar lives across the hall from me. Puma, on the floor below. I guess that makes me...
I have an Asiatic Wildcat-4 to be exact!!! OSU obtained a few for research a couple years back . The asiatic Wildcat is immune to MANY feline diseases including feline equivalent to AIDS. OSU was trying to develop vaccines or a medication for domestic cats 🐈. Then the university decided to breed the wildcats with house cats to see how many generations they would be immune to the diseases for. Anyway, when they were done they had a “lottery “ within the departments for anyone who wanted a cat or kitten. I got 1 full Asian wildcat and a half wildcat half domestic kitten. Then they had kittens and I kept 2.
Edit: they look and act very much like an overgrown house cat ,but with spots instead of stripes, they have a bit of a mane and mine have huge ear tassels like a caracal. The others from the program don’t have such big beautiful tassels like mine(mine are prettier and they know it 😂) We are currently expecting babies and I can’t wait!!!
Hey, don't leave us hanging - which generation loses immunity? 😁
@MargoTheNerd4 if I remember correctly. It’s either 4 or 5
What asian wild cat is this?
@RRRRRRRRRRR956 the one that’s in the video.
I love OSU! The gameplay is simply addictive: despite it being nothing more than clicking the circles or sliding them across the screen, it's one of the most engaging activities I have encountered.
By the way, OSU has its own cats! Nekos, to be precise. Weebs, being feline enjoyers, absolutely adore these. I'm glad you mentioned this wonderful rhytm game, it's one of my favorite. It's nice encountering people who share your interests!🤗🤠😺
That cheetah just chillin with that pup was nice
The way he says “domestic” like it’s a slur 💀😭
4:46 why is no one talking about what that cats pulling does no one else think that’s wild
when my cat was a kitten used to open doors blocked by stacks of books and heavy winter coats theyre quite strong when the want to be
They may be 5-10lbs , but it’s almost entirely muscle, and they know how to use it.
4.22
I didn’t notice at first thanks for pointing it out yes that’s cray cray
Time stamp was crazy far off lmao
Its all fun and games until that cat is hungry and you have no food..
Depends they’re much less likely to eat a human than a dog is. If you take a look at the statistics, more people get mauled by a dog, then have ever been mauled by a cat.
dont tell me youre here now too
Why are you stalking my recommended Heisenberg
They’ll leave and hunt something
You have food like you have Uno. It comes with the system.
I love cats so much. All of the cats I have are stray cats that have just decided my back yard is their home now.
22:30 just one bit of extra info I wanna add here: this mainly applies to winter when there’s few other food options available for the Lynx. In spring, summer and fall, their diet can be way more diverse and include various different rodents, birds and other small animals. They’ll even take down deer on rare occasions (though interestingly, the Eurasian lynx actually hunts deer quite often).
I think in the case of the Eurasian lynx it helps that it's both considerably larger than the lynx species in North America and has no larger cat species to compete with.
@An_Actual_Rat I'm in Northern Europe and the basicest of basic large animal forest foodweb stuff (as in, primary school level) goes something like this: wild cat? lynx. ambushes deer if able, smaller if not. elk is too big, rabbit is often too fast. wild dog? wolf. pack-hunts deer and elk if able, smaller if not. bear? will get elk and deer if able, plants if not. elk? not too afraid of anything but humans. deer? afraid of everything larger than a rabbit. boar will eat anything it can get. Also here for us lynx is the only wild cat species at all.
@mirjam3553 I'm from Sweden, though I live in Scania, which has been mostly lynx free for a while.
I'd like for more to be around since they can help out with our boar problem (they may snatch small ones when able).
@An_Actual_Rat It also doesn't hurt that Roe deer, the most common European deer species by far, are significantly smaller than their American relatives, averaging at less than half the size of Whitetail and Mule Deer.
@DaSoda70 True, roe deer are rather small and are a large part of their diet. The true mark of their prowess is that that they can take down red deer (4th largest deer), especially during winter.
22:56 comtext : Florida 😂
I've heard it argued that they domesticated us. I find that hard to refute.
There is some evidence that the toxoplasma carried by cats may affect human brains to make us love them more.
Good point 😅 I was never a cat person because I'm allergic. But here I am with my adult son who has 3 of them, in my 6th decade. 😂 Oh well, if you can't beat your allergies, get some daily exposure therapy. 😂🙌 It only really bothers me if they scratch me which obviously is frequently. In 10 years I will lyk if getting scratched eventually lessens the reaction.
It's the most intense itch I've ever had and I'm not a happy camper for about a half hour, the longest half hour in life.
But I love my grandkitties. ❤
I can't stop smiling 😃
4:09 “what’s you see it like anti-fascist you’ll never not zee it” clever 👏🏾
impeccable
💯 best shade thrown
Fascist and anti fascist are so casually throw around that its meaning its slowly being erased. Most people dont even know who Giovanni Gentile was and still label, so irresponsable
My favorite small cat is the Oncilla also known as the Tigrillo
Cloud Leopard are indeed meow cat
The D(domestic) word
16:06 man I could feel the love in your voice! Dude, seriously, you're one of the best channels out there. Love your work and attitude, I'm glad you're living what you love!
the way he says domestic like a slur lmao
I'm sure cats see it the same way.
15:31 😂 huggies
Pallas' cats and sand cats are probably some of my top favorite animals 😊
I just love Pallas cats. Something about them just melts me.
Sand cats have permanent airplane ears
The Andean-cat is just…Rådical.
There's this one bobcat that walks through my property sometimes.
I once saw them go up a tree and swipe at an owl, the screaming match that followed was legendary
I actually live in Scotland and recently visited a wildlife reserve. I was lucky to see a Scottish tiger/wild cat, it was actually a breeding program i believe. It was amazing but so sad to know how low the numbers of them are, I think its roughly 400. I hope we can save them but it'll take hard work.
OH MAH GAW IT HAPPENED HIMS FACE APPEARED BRO WAS TELLING NOTHING BUT THE WHOLE TRUTH
4:04 alright that one had me wheezing 😅
What does that joke mean?
@Aesthetic.Ascetic it’s a reference to ww2 Germans and people with their ideological beliefs
@Godzolotl doesn't explain the joke
This dude has the best punchlines I've ever heard honestly
@Aesthetic.Ascetic oh yeah sorry it said something about anti facists (the ideology) and ‘not see’, which sounds like N*zi
Just to throw in an extremely rare subspecies that separated at the end of the last ice age, there is a Scottish wildcat which has developed unique physical characteristics from the European wildcat, such as a blunter, more heavily ringed tail and thicker fur. The problem is that hybridisation has made them increasingly rare and hard to distinguish from the average tabby. You mentioned one with numbers as low as 60 remaining, but the Scottish wildcat population is another of which the genetically pure numbers may well have dropped below 100 in total at one point, though captive breeding has seen this number increase by another 50% in recent years.
These little ones didn’t have the most creative scientists when it came to naming, so are stuck with _felis silvestris silvestris_ meaning “cat of the forest…of the forest”Almost as bad as _ursus arctos arctos_ for the Eurasian brown bear, literally translating to “bear bear bear”, or _gulo gulo_ for the wolverine meaning “glutton glutton”. We definitely need to make sure there is more creativity from scientists when it comes to the naming process of species. Perhaps with some in higher positions working on adapting some of the less informed older names along with those that are just intensely dismal. They could have gone with “felis silvestris caledonia” at least, for the sake of variation. Still, who am I to argue with the scientific naming committee?
You can petition to have the name changed. I think you have a good name there, as your suggestion includes locale specific to the subspecies.
@deathandcats I never knew of this. Thank you so much for sharing this knowledge. I have absolutely no standing in the science community, but a love of linguistics, so I had always just assumed that once a species was given a scientific name, that was that and that it is simply to be accepted. I feel like you’ve just opened up an entirely new box of wonders I never knew existed!
Just a quick correction from my phone’s autoincorrect. The Latin name should say “Felis silvestris Caledoniae” (the added E is what makes it “Cat of the forest of Caledonia” rather than simply “Cat of the forest Caledonia”. If there are proper Latin speakers, feel welcome to correct me if I am incorrect in this since I am not very well versed in Latin declensions. Either way, this was how I meant to write it and if I’m correct then great. If not, I’ll stick to the other languages I actually studied.
The video at the beginning made my cat look out the window for other cats.
The dude w the 9mm on the tiger is crazy ts ain gon do nun
I see a lot of stuff online about dog people vs cat people. Look, real dogs like everyone, it's not that hard to get on a dogs good side. But cats? You know you've made it as a person when a cat takes a liking to you...
Your online toxoplasmosis test results are in
Unlike a dog, a cat doesn’t see you as a pack member, its not required to like you by nature
_Look, real dogs like everyone_
That's exactly why they suck.
Their love is cheap.
@dannyarcher6370African Wild Dogs hunt in packs and eat prey alive. Yes humans are on their menu
Not really
10:25 "The Sand Cat"
So a cat running Fennec fox hardware?