>One of the most popular animals on earth
>one of the most habile and instinctive hunters
>virtually no videos of them hunting
Why
>One of the most popular animals on earth. >one of the most habile and instinctive hunters
>One of the most popular animals on earth
>one of the most habile and instinctive hunters
>virtually no videos of them hunting
Why
The second most universal human trait after lying is avoiding uncomfortable information. They don't want to see it because it means they might have to do something or change the way they treat their pets.
>virtually no videos of them hunting
there's a few around
> anything that kills & eats seagulls is OKay by me
Based ‘gull hater
Actual sky rats
He deserves his meal
Absolute chad.
More likely a mommy cat making sure she has enough food to make new kittens and feed them with her milk. Females tend to be more efficient and relentless hunters because they often are responsible for feeding herself plus three or six kittens. Males certainly can hunt, and some of them are very good at it, but they also tend to be more relaxed about it since they can skip meals more often without consequences.
Taking out a full grown seagull like that is the mark of a very experienced hunter who is doing it for serious need rather than entertainment. That particular cat looks pretty well fed, so I'd take favorable odds that she has had to Get Good and not make mistakes. Not her first rodeo by a long shot.
had no idea "habile" was a word, thanks for teaching me it
Because that isn’t their main appeal and it’s recognized as a bad thing for them to do that. It’s better to just watch them use their talents to do silly stuff
Why is people taking in literal carnivorian specialized hunters as pets and not feeling appealed for watching a display of they prowess
Because the kind of autists that like watching animals life-cycling is obsessed with dumb reptiles like snakes killing snakes instead of felidae killing theropods
Then you have cats hypnotizing birds, moving with insane reaction times, jumping and climbing with extreme agility and balance, moving in a extremely sneaky way only when their prey move, using retractile claws and sharp canines to break down the spine in one shot, ambushing other animals and hiding behind their eyes, etc. As soon as a cat observes a small animal it brains clicks to kill in the fraction of a second and they behave like they were trained to know how
>moving in a extremely sneaky way only when their prey move
?
When cats are hunting and staying near their prey which is eating or something alike they wait until the creature moves in some way to move themselves, of course that needs very short reaction times to synch their steps and do them within the short time gap a bird is shaking its head to pick a seed. They do it that way because more animals struggle to perceive someone else movement if they did a short movement themselves
those kind of autists like watching snakes killing rodents and other small animals as well. Too many will let their snake be killed by a rat because they are obsessed with live feeding.
Ah, just realized i put snake killing snakes lol, had a seizure, wanted to say rodents
Because if people knew how much they hunted there would be calls to ban them in many places
most people don't care about animals that aren't cute popular pets tbh. Cats kill animals that most people don't care about like rodents and small birds.
People care a lot about birds, the first large environmental drive happened because of birds. Cats being worse than DDT against bird populations is just something people prefer to not think about
For 10,000 years the mistaken belief that they do this more than they actually do, to animals other than the ones they actually hunt, was the entire reason people tolerated these animals that were otherwise awful pets and common pests before the dawn of affordable neutering and a modern understanding of animal behavior and conditioning.
Most cat videos are made at home
Household cats kill a lot of birds
Household cats that kill bird and other wildlife are neglected animals in the first place. They're outside, where they shouldn't be, precisely because their owners don't care about them. They throw them outside when they get bored of the cat or don't feel like playing with it and it's being annoying. So obviously they're not watching the cat, much less filming it, when it starts to decimate the local wildlife population (or gets run over by my car).
Animals are not your children. You do not have to keep them locked up inside.
Yes, you kind of do. Cats are the lynchpin in the life cycle of a foodborne parasite that kills 20 times more people than pitbulls in the US alone.
And it's underdiagnosed as a cause of mortality and deformities because it primarily affects infants and toddlers. It's probably far more people in every country. No cats outside = no disease
>inb4 just cook your lettuce bro
Just be careful around an abused rescue malipitbull bro.
>Cats are the lynchpin in the life cycle of a foodborne parasite that kills 20 times more people than pitbulls in the US alone.
And this is supposed to be a bad thing?
cats are not supposed to exist anywhere outside the middle east and north africa
why are you trying to kill off birds? why do you love insect swarms?
you realize there are native cat species outside of the middle east and north africa right?
>cats are not supposed to exist anywhere outside the middle east and north africa
Ah yes, wildcats are only native to such African and Middle- Eastern countries as Scotland and China.
What is the exact limitator for their spread? From what i see its just islands and certain extreme deserts?
are we looking at the same map?
>discussion is about domestic cats
>posts image of the range of the entire genus Felis
You’re moronic
>reee cats are gonna commit bird genocide and we are all gonna die because of mosquitos
>post a map that shows a significant part of the old word is naturally inhabited by closely related and very similar species and that people there haven't all died because of bug swams caused by cats killing all the birds
>comparing one African wild cat per couple square km vs a hundred to a thousand domestic cats in a similarly sized area
You’re moronic
That entire blue section of the map is a shit hole and the grey portions are only slightly better because they don't have to deal with cats.
>closely related and very similar species
that is objectively superior to the cat as a real animal. housecat hybridization has eliminated several old world species of cats because domestics cant actually survive in the wild worth a damn.
RIP scottish wildcat.
>birds haven't disappeared
because most of them adapted to a constant feline population... and yet, some species are STIL disappearing because they adapted to a "constant population" not a "constant supply from irresponsible pet owners chucking neglected pets out the back door".
The Scot Wildcat thing is sad, but what other species have gone extinct because of mixing?
lol what
follow the conversation bro
Hurrr durr humans aren't "supposed" to exist outside of Africa
What the frick are you talking about bro? Nature moves around
Ah yes the huge insect swarms that got reduced by 80 % in the last 30 years because of pesticides. Can you really blame the cats if the birds already starve to death?