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)
I really like cats. I've lived with some very goofy ones in my time. My son was always glad our Molly wasn't any bigger than she was because she was more strict about his bedtime than I was. He hed visions of himself dangling from her mouth by the scruff of his neck as she carried him off to their bed. I say 'their' bed. She slept with him every night no.matter how tangled up the covers or how squished she got. He was her boy. She'd fuss if I tried to pick her up or give her cuddles. If he'd been gone a couple weeks she'd run across my lap. She wouldn't cuddle or linger, tho. He brother was a love hound. Thought he was a puppy his whole life. Those were my last due to worsening asthma. I'm left with wonderful memories of those two silly, funny and smart cats. It was a privilege being their caretakers. So loved!
All cats are beautiful, with the possible exception of Lions, or at least the adult male Lion, particularly when the mane is all matted from fighting. Other than them pretty much all other cats are among the most beautiful of all creatures. Foxes are beautiful as are Wolves and many species of birds, but the only real competitor to cats for beauty is the human female.
@@klyzer5725 They can be, but adult male Lions often have a scraggly look about them with matted manes etc. Other cats seem to avoid that matted look so even after a hunt or fight they look amazing. Also, a Lion that is in a zoo and well cared for can be extremely majestic, that isn't normal for them though...
Lynxes did not originate from North America, they actually originated from Western Europe, the most primitive living lynx species is actually the Iberian Lynx (Lynx pardinus), while the Eurasian Lynx (Lynx lynx) is actually more closely related to both the Canada Lynx (Lynx canadensis) and Bobcat (Lynx rufus) than to the iberian lynx, Lynxes are one of the most basal extant genera of small cats within the subtribe Lyncina, which groups the lynxes with other fairly similar cat genera such as Otocolobus, Pardofelis, Badiofelis, Catopuma, Leptailurus, Caracal, and Profelis, within the subtribe Lyncina, Otocolobus (Manuls) is the most basal extant genus.
I'm a huge animal lover, all animals. But I am especially in love with cats. All of them. For this reason I do know about many of the lesser known varieties. But I've never heard of a kodkod until this video. When I looked it up on Google images and saw it I shouted (in the most obnoxious baby voice) "oh godddd!!" They are FUCKING PRECIOUS AS FUCK.
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.
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
11:04 "even managed to hybridise" makes it sound like they did it on their own accord and not because humans wanna breed designer animals. Anyway, the savannah in particular boggles me. Like, who thought breeding their domestic cat with an mf serval was a good idea?
I really feel sorry for cats (and dogs) that endure hybrid engineering for looks, like cats with servals, or toy dogs with massive dogs. The only hybrid I can accept as natural is domestic cat with Scottish/African wild cat, although I've heard the kittens are often difficult to tame.
It makes sense if you recognize that many/most closely related species can't hybridize. So if he meant it figuratively, as in 'their genetics were close enough to produce viable offspring,' then it works. Many species that could theoretically hybridize don't, because they never meet in the wild. If their ranges change for purely natural reasons and start overlapping, they could, then, 'manage' to hybridize naturally. Or, as you say, people could put them together to produce designer animals to sell.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
This is the first of your videos I think I've seen. It is excellent, and packed with interesting information. I like that you also use the Latin names of the different species. I'd like to suggest that you add a list of common Latin suffixes and words used in the specie names, to help some of your viewers get the most out of the videos. Thanks
The genus Leopardus contains only two extant species, the Ocelot (Leopardus pardalis) and Margay (Leopardus wiedii) while the other six extant species would be placed within only two distinct genera, Oreailurus for both the andean mountain cat and pampas cat and Oncifelis for the other four species collectively known as tiger cats, therefore the scientific names of these other cat species would be Oncifelis tigrinus (Oncilla), Oncifelis guigna (Kodkod), Oncifelis guttulus (Southern Tiger Cat), Oncifelis geoffroyi (Geoffroy's Cat), Oreailurus jacobita (Andean Mountain Cat), and Oreailurus colocola (Pampas Cat).
@@Dr.IanPlect Does he do this on every video? I've seen other Indy Reno comments and it seems like he just wants to flex on how smart he is rather than actually comment anything about the video itself.
@@dinohall2595 Yes, he has a habit doing the following on wildlife videos; - posting obsolete/inaccurate/flawed taxonomy - stubbornly insisting that said taxonomy is correct - ignores corrections and posts even more nonsense anyway - it does seem to be about showing off 'knowledge' -------------- I'm a PhD zoologist, Reno knows me by other names (this is a new account). I've been pointing out his nonsense for years. Just today on another video I corrected his comment asserting; - giant pandas are not bears - bears are closer to dogs than pinnipeds - bears, dogs and pinnipeds are closer to each other than to mustelids Sometimes I go through his nonsense and explain at length why it's wrong, other times (as my first comment here) I don't have that energy! As a professional zoologist, it hurts to see the kind of misinformation he dumps.
@@Dr.IanPlect That's what I thought. It's interesting how the more smug and confident a commenter is about their own intelligence, the more likely they are to be wrong.
I've often wondered about the evolutionary history of the cat family. This video is a marvelous summary. It also seems like monkeys and apes evolved from this early tree dwelling cat ancestor. Hence cats dogs and humans also have similar teeth.
@@hkschubert9938 Just info I’ve picked up in my life. I just googled: “Cats and dogs are both in the Carnivora order, but their last common ancestor lived about 42 million years ago. Since then they have diverged into feliforms (cats, hyenas and mongooses) and caniforms - a more diverse group that includes raccoons and walruses, as well as dogs.” Of course, this and other info doesn’t mean you’re wrong, but I think the two groups aren’t very closely related.
I have a half tabby half Bengal, it's interesting to see a bit about her lineage as I often look at her sleeping and wonder where she comes from in history. She's beautiful and not just because she's mine. If she was a human she'd be a cross between Alicia Silverstone and CAT Dennings !
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 👌
While this is very much an oversimplification, it strikes me that the main difference between cats and dogs is that while cats have perfected a form (phenotype) for carnivory, dogs have preserved a latent genotype that provides for a wide variety of phenotypes. This is patently obvious to even untrained observers in that cats are somewhat 'scale independent' such that cats of any size are quite similar in body plan, whereas dogs (as exemplified in domestic breeds) manifest considerable variety of form. Thus it seems cats are able to penetrate and dominate ecosystems yet their dominance is predicated on high specialization for carnivory and is thus brittle in the long term while dogs are always waiting in the wings to rapidly adopt a new form which can avail itself of new opportunities. I don't know exactly how this relates but I don't know of any cat that has ever specialized or succeeded in the 'persistence pursuit predator' niche which seems to be the bailiwick of most modern dogs.
TBH it seems to me that "persistence pursuit predator" is not really a niche so much as a sub-optimal strategy born of necessity. Is there any scenario where it makes MORE sense to waste tremendous amounts of energy to tackle your meal? Canines do it because they have no other choice and are stuck in a local evolutionary plateau (absent human efforts of course)
@@1man1bike1road Yes. The difference, I think, is that while dogs have filled many specialized roles, cats only have two: pest control, and being adorable.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
Woof
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".
**Fuzzes up and hisses!**
@@sabrecatsmiladon7380 no need when you (the cat) have a dog big enough to ride into battle on protecting you. "I've got a Donk"
Meow!
Get outta here!
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My cat made me watch this. She said it's a very important video.
I tried to show my cat this video and he didn't even care.
They are very persuasive
Your Cat is very wise!
Cats can't talk bro
I’m watching with all 3 of my kitties!
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.
Cats didnt get domesticated, or maybe not in the same way as dogs i think. Theyre also solitary animals so maybe thats the reason.
I guess you never seen any designer cats breed...
Might be because almost all dog breeds were bred for some sort of job or task. While Cats have always just been vermin controllers?
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)
Caracals are slim build, it sounds like your uncle was overfeeding it....
@@edwinreveron870 compared to a normal cat you could definitely call it big atleast.
@@SubwayBrat -Yeah, but caracals are really medium size cats...
@@edwinreveron870 I'm surprised by that because they look massive in pictures! I've never seen them irl though
@@SubwayBrat -Males get right around 40 lbs on average, just slightly heavier than Maine Coon...
2:30 “Cat Gap” for 7 million years - vanishing for a prolonged period of time and reappearing out of fkn nowhere. The most cat thing I’ve ever heard.
Cat gap! I guess you could say, paleontologically speaking, they just took more of a... Cat nap?
The kitten licking its paw at the end was adorable.
A video on corvids would be lovely maybe.
so true
As if we don’t have enough cat videos.
Corvids are my favorite animals after cats. Their intelligence blows my mind.
One of my favorite animals/birds are corvids, I would love a video on them.
Or Covid?
I really like cats. I've lived with some very goofy ones in my time. My son was always glad our Molly wasn't any bigger than she was because she was more strict about his bedtime than I was. He hed visions of himself dangling from her mouth by the scruff of his neck as she carried him off to their bed. I say 'their' bed. She slept with him every night no.matter how tangled up the covers or how squished she got. He was her boy. She'd fuss if I tried to pick her up or give her cuddles. If he'd been gone a couple weeks she'd run across my lap. She wouldn't cuddle or linger, tho. He brother was a love hound. Thought he was a puppy his whole life. Those were my last due to worsening asthma. I'm left with wonderful memories of those two silly, funny and smart cats. It was a privilege being their caretakers. So loved!
That is so beautiful and I am heartened that you have such wonderful memories.
The domestic cat has the biggest eyes of any mammal relative to their head. That’s why they’re so incredibly cute
I'm pretty sure there's a lot of animals with bigger eyes relative to their heads than a cat
@@sm3gma995 my bad, allow me to correct myself. Of any *mammal
@@Master_of_Critique I'm pretty sure that is also not the case lol
@@sm3gma995 then come with examples
@@esbeng.s.a9761 primates like the tarsiers, lemurs, and the slow loris
My half Bengal cat Francis said that this video was very insightful and respectful to his people 🐈
Felidae - the most beautiful animals on earth.
All cats are beautiful, with the possible exception of Lions, or at least the adult male Lion, particularly when the mane is all matted from fighting. Other than them pretty much all other cats are among the most beautiful of all creatures. Foxes are beautiful as are Wolves and many species of birds, but the only real competitor to cats for beauty is the human female.
The Pallas's cat
@@Raptorman0909 lions are majestic
@@klyzer5725 They can be, but adult male Lions often have a scraggly look about them with matted manes etc. Other cats seem to avoid that matted look so even after a hunt or fight they look amazing. Also, a Lion that is in a zoo and well cared for can be extremely majestic, that isn't normal for them though...
@@Raptorman0909 that's just subjective lions are majestic
i have unhealthy urge to pet every cat i see on screen
One day it will cost me a hand and I will be content for the trade.
Lol, me too. Must pet them all!
I especially want to run my hands through the lion's mane. No. Seriously. First though I want to give it a good shampoo and rinse
@@RingsLoreMaster I don't groom animals, but that would seem like an absolute pain to wash.
Cats are one of the most recognized animals in the world. We all love cats both big and small🐱🐈
Dogs disagree
@@leam89 I've always thought if there were a contest between cats and dogs, hyenas should referee.
@@Sawrattan hyenas are more closely related to cats so seems unfair lol
@@leam89 both are equal
@@leam89 evolution is Fake, and science is not exact, hyenas are 100% canines/dogs
Lynxes did not originate from North America, they actually originated from Western Europe, the most primitive living lynx species is actually the Iberian Lynx (Lynx pardinus), while the Eurasian Lynx (Lynx lynx) is actually more closely related to both the Canada Lynx (Lynx canadensis) and Bobcat (Lynx rufus) than to the iberian lynx, Lynxes are one of the most basal extant genera of small cats within the subtribe Lyncina, which groups the lynxes with other fairly similar cat genera such as Otocolobus, Pardofelis, Badiofelis, Catopuma, Leptailurus, Caracal, and Profelis, within the subtribe Lyncina, Otocolobus (Manuls) is the most basal extant genus.
He said they migrated to North America.
@@CreatureDomain no, go to 8:35. The narrator said the lynx lineage originated in North America, then spread to Eurasia where later forms evolved.
So the iberian lynx is like the snow leopard of lynxes? That's cool!
@@JohnDrummondPhoto okay
Yeah. The ancestor of modern lynxes, the Lynx Issiodorensis, evolved in Europe and Asia and only later migrated to America.
I'm a huge animal lover, all animals. But I am especially in love with cats. All of them. For this reason I do know about many of the lesser known varieties. But I've never heard of a kodkod until this video. When I looked it up on Google images and saw it I shouted (in the most obnoxious baby voice) "oh godddd!!" They are FUCKING PRECIOUS AS FUCK.
Lol! Whyyy????
Funny thing is….. they couldn’t care les about you.
@@lavonsense1 to be honest what the fuck is your deal man
Agreed, my dear. 😎
@@lavonsense1 corny
Thanks for covering the evolutionary history of our kind
He did!?, idk about that but the video about conflict between gorillas and chimpanzees was really informative and unique to his channel.
@@Capt.Carrick i think he was talking about him being a cat, and his recolored garfield profile picture
Stop being so cute Nermal.
@@Vexeov •O•
I'm going go send you to Abu Dhabi
11:32 My man really put in an Elden Ring spoiler in his educational video
Once I saw that, I knew that too was a man of culture like us.
As someone who took Latin for three years in high school, I commend your effortless annunciation of all this nomenclature!
It's a voice synthesizer.
ok, good job
"Rough tongue to extract meat from prey" with picture showing a cat licking a human 🤣
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.
Our cats absolutely loved this video. Even better than those Cat TV videos with birds!
I was waiting for the manul cat to appear, I was not disappointed.
The scientific name for the manul is floofus maximus.
FLOOFUS MAXIMUS
I LOVE IT
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
I don't even own a cat, but one strolled into my place and put this on before peeing on the sofa and walking out.
Cats and Eagles are the most beautiful animals for me
for me the most beautiful animal is a female human 😂😂
From tree dwellers to house rulers
just like primates/humans
I always thought hyenas were more related to canines but i guess it makes more sense from them to be more closely related to felines
Hyenas are incredible and the variety and difference between spotted hyena and striped ect fascinating.
But why are they so cute?
11:04 "even managed to hybridise" makes it sound like they did it on their own accord and not because humans wanna breed designer animals. Anyway, the savannah in particular boggles me. Like, who thought breeding their domestic cat with an mf serval was a good idea?
But he did say they were creepy. I give him credit for saying that because everyone normally glorifies and praise exotic hybrids.
@@cheetahquan yeah fair enough
I really feel sorry for cats (and dogs) that endure hybrid engineering for looks, like cats with servals, or toy dogs with massive dogs. The only hybrid I can accept as natural is domestic cat with Scottish/African wild cat, although I've heard the kittens are often difficult to tame.
It makes sense if you recognize that many/most closely related species can't hybridize. So if he meant it figuratively, as in 'their genetics were close enough to produce viable offspring,' then it works. Many species that could theoretically hybridize don't, because they never meet in the wild. If their ranges change for purely natural reasons and start overlapping, they could, then, 'manage' to hybridize naturally. Or, as you say, people could put them together to produce designer animals to sell.
I'd love to see one on raccoons and their kin. Fascinating animals that don't get the love they deserve imo.
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 booooooooo. You just listed 30 species names and no information to make any of it interesting. Leave it to the channel. Again…boooooooo
@@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.
God I absolutely love cats. They’re like
Nature’s Ninjas they see something they want they waste no time getting ya in m
Would be very interested in seeing a video on solenodons or even venomous mammals in general. Keep up the great work!
As someone who loves my fur baby far too much. I’m very excited for this video
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.
HOW COULD YOU ! the final and most important evolution of cats to date, is their take over of the Internet!
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.
A little surprised there was no mention of the Siamese, and hairless varieties - they're just so different! Enjoyed the video 😀
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 ?
It had them but the Cheetah family evolved to not have them so it could run better
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.
A cat’s claws are actually protractible, the cat has to extend them out of the paw. At a resting state, the claws are contained inside the paw.
@@richardeast3328 ah but once extended, can or can not the cat retract them? I rest my case
@@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.
3:49 "…rapidly spread and diversified into many different branches of cats. Psuedaelurus is notab-Jerry, this shot goes later."
Really detailed and interesting intelligent dialogue, brilliant video too …. Great work!
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. 😂
my cat was very interested. thank you.
Great and interesting video! I am also the artist behind that Enhydrocyon portrait, glad it's getting some use!
A very thorough and beautiful summary of cat evolution and differentiation. I love watching this video over and over again.
Thank you!
Both cats and dogs have their awesome qualities.
It came from a true animal lover
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.
Those are artificial categories though, more for us than them, as I suspect they don't even notice the differences among themselves.
@@ultrademigod but still they all differ.
@@ultrademigod What a stupid comment; ALL of taxonomy is for our benefit, ffs.
I didn’t know there were so many adorable cats to love!! 😻😻😻
This is the first of your videos I think I've seen. It is excellent, and packed with interesting information. I like that you also use the Latin names of the different species.
I'd like to suggest that you add a list of common Latin suffixes and words used in the specie names, to help some of your viewers get the most out of the videos. Thanks
feline taxonomy has changed so much since i first learned of it >20 years ago
E é por isso que não se deve dar muita CREDIBILIDADE a ciência, aos cientistas e biólogos, muitas coisas que eles falam são falsas ou mentiras
The genus Leopardus contains only two extant species, the Ocelot (Leopardus pardalis) and Margay (Leopardus wiedii) while the other six extant species would be placed within only two distinct genera, Oreailurus for both the andean mountain cat and pampas cat and Oncifelis for the other four species collectively known as tiger cats, therefore the scientific names of these other cat species would be Oncifelis tigrinus (Oncilla), Oncifelis guigna (Kodkod), Oncifelis guttulus (Southern Tiger Cat), Oncifelis geoffroyi (Geoffroy's Cat), Oreailurus jacobita (Andean Mountain Cat), and Oreailurus colocola (Pampas Cat).
Bro just shut up
WRONG again, Reno. As usual, your claimed taxonomy is a mess.
@@Dr.IanPlect Does he do this on every video? I've seen other Indy Reno comments and it seems like he just wants to flex on how smart he is rather than actually comment anything about the video itself.
@@dinohall2595 Yes, he has a habit doing the following on wildlife videos;
- posting obsolete/inaccurate/flawed taxonomy
- stubbornly insisting that said taxonomy is correct
- ignores corrections and posts even more nonsense anyway
- it does seem to be about showing off 'knowledge'
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I'm a PhD zoologist, Reno knows me by other names (this is a new account). I've been pointing out his nonsense for years. Just today on another video I corrected his comment asserting;
- giant pandas are not bears
- bears are closer to dogs than pinnipeds
- bears, dogs and pinnipeds are closer to each other than to mustelids
Sometimes I go through his nonsense and explain at length why it's wrong, other times (as my first comment here) I don't have that energy! As a professional zoologist, it hurts to see the kind of misinformation he dumps.
@@Dr.IanPlect That's what I thought. It's interesting how the more smug and confident a commenter is about their own intelligence, the more likely they are to be wrong.
Oh so many cats! Many breeds I had not heard of before. WOnderful!
Our generation is getting all over the media and creating great content such as this, good work and keep going!
as a cat lover i never knew how big the cat family was. all i knew was 'cat' and 'cat-like'
6:32 Who else thought this was a still image for a second?
Yep, same here
Good observation 👀
Awe cats! so many cats, take a shot everytime he says CAT! aweee.. Hail the kitty cat!
Wow, I had no idea there were that many cant's out in the wild.
Great video!
Felines>Canines 🦁👑
Excellent video. Would love to see more of your artistic renditions for visual aids in the future.
Thanks for posting this on my birthday month!
I've often wondered about the evolutionary history of the cat family. This video is a marvelous summary.
It also seems like monkeys and apes evolved from this early tree dwelling cat ancestor.
Hence cats dogs and humans also have similar teeth.
Yep! You got it :)
I doubt that.
@@Ceerads do you have any basis for your doubts?
@@hkschubert9938 Just info I’ve picked up in my life. I just googled: “Cats and dogs are both in the Carnivora order, but their last common ancestor lived about 42 million years ago. Since then they have diverged into feliforms (cats, hyenas and mongooses) and caniforms - a more diverse group that includes raccoons and walruses, as well as dogs.” Of course, this and other info doesn’t mean you’re wrong, but I think the two groups aren’t very closely related.
@@Ceerads what you just stated does not support you original statement. So you have no support. So you're just blindly guessing without support.
I have a half tabby half Bengal, it's interesting to see a bit about her lineage as I often look at her sleeping and wonder where she comes from in history. She's beautiful and not just because she's mine. If she was a human she'd be a cross between Alicia Silverstone and CAT Dennings !
Fun fact people only think the domesticated cat was domesticated by us , it’s disputed by feline scholars that say cats domesticated us
I agree with the theory that cats are the only animals to have domesticated humans.
7:43 Dude spitting bars!
The supreme land predators.
After Homo sapien.
If you raise up a big cat and socialise it, it will purr for you.
evolution is a very fascinating topic 😎👍🦖🦕
Evolution is Fake, GOD/JESUS is the creator of all the animals, evolution is a lie
As a cat, I cant explain how much I appreciate this
I just have one word to say to all of these: KITTY!!
Please do the evolution of some Australian marsupial lineages.
Great information on one of my favorite animals!🐱
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 👌
My spoiled cats have evolved into a new group known as Felis Bratus.
While this is very much an oversimplification, it strikes me that the main difference between cats and dogs is that while cats have perfected a form (phenotype) for carnivory, dogs have preserved a latent genotype that provides for a wide variety of phenotypes. This is patently obvious to even untrained observers in that cats are somewhat 'scale independent' such that cats of any size are quite similar in body plan, whereas dogs (as exemplified in domestic breeds) manifest considerable variety of form. Thus it seems cats are able to penetrate and dominate ecosystems yet their dominance is predicated on high specialization for carnivory and is thus brittle in the long term while dogs are always waiting in the wings to rapidly adopt a new form which can avail itself of new opportunities.
I don't know exactly how this relates but I don't know of any cat that has ever specialized or succeeded in the 'persistence pursuit predator' niche which seems to be the bailiwick of most modern dogs.
TBH it seems to me that "persistence pursuit predator" is not really a niche so much as a sub-optimal strategy born of necessity. Is there any scenario where it makes MORE sense to waste tremendous amounts of energy to tackle your meal? Canines do it because they have no other choice and are stuck in a local evolutionary plateau (absent human efforts of course)
dog variety are due to humans messing with them surely
@@1man1bike1road Yes. The difference, I think, is that while dogs have filled many specialized roles, cats only have two: pest control, and being adorable.
@@Burt1038 Don't tell dogs how to do their job!
@@1man1bike1road As I said, 'exemplified'. Humans couldn't have bred all these forms without latent genetic potential.
How creative are people now day that we named an animal "cat cat"
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"
0:23 thats an awesome lookin cat :)
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.
@@bernardoneves7455 I doubt that people didn’t create a cat breed that exists for cosmetics or royalty
Humans domesticated dogs, cats domesticated themselves. We only started selectively breeding cats well after their species emerged.
Whatever sound is in the background (its barely audible) made my dog sit up and look for it
I’m a fan of cats 🐈
"Felus cattus...?" When was felius domesticus re-named? That's the name I'd give a housecat.
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.
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
Good show
A super cool post, we do appreciate you for sharing it. Thanks a bunch Big Dog
I love cats!
It's no coincidence we find the finest hunters cute as all hell.
Why are they all cute tho?
I read the description and said, "Evolution of a dead cat." Siggy took off down the hall like a cartoon cat.
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 have one climbing on top of my head as I'm watching this video.
IMO cats are the zenith of mammal evolution. Perfect.
A video on the evolution of the carnivores would be interesting.
Cats are cool !
Watching this video with my cat in my lap🐈🐾
Cat life.
Meow! An informative mini--doc about feline evolution. Thanks for posting this! 😺😸🐈🐈🐆
humans are animals
mammals to be more spastic.
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Dear writer: if u say "ubiquitous," u don't have to say "almost everywhere," unless u don't understand ubiquitous
Cat's with decent attitudes evolved into dogs
Cats, not Cat's; and; drivel.
Cheetahs don’t have unretractable claws, when they do retract them it just sticks out a little
Can’t wait for the evolution of doggos
You mean dogs?
wolves
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.
@@indyreno2933 so basically there's been a lot of doggos in earth's history.