not quite, but this does give a GREAT comparison of European vs. American style oriental cats. Europeans favour broad, domed lion heads and HUGE side-placed ears, whereas Americans want the cats to be tiny graceful ballerinas (like kitten Pangur below!)
I like aspects of both – the MASSIVE goblin ears are extremely good, but I adore the refinement & delicacy of the slender American weasels
if any of my posts deserved to get a lot of notes its this one
yooo it’s me, cat, your resident cat to give you some neato burrito information about what she’s doing in this video
effectively? mothercat is counting her kittens.
yes.
you see cats do this before they leave their kittens to go hunt, or drink, or lay in the sun, or whatever she’s doing that day, and they do it again after. it’s basically her calling, and the kittens responding. she’ll do it until all of them are accounted for. if she can’t find one (and she will know if one isn’t responding) she will become very distressed.
it’s also her way of quickly assessing her kittens. a healthy kitten has bright, happy peeps like the kitten here. a sick kitten would sound reedier, weaker, or unable to mew at all.
all kittens sound different, and mothercat can tell the difference between one baby’s peep and another. if verbal contact fails, she will use smell to seek out and check on her kittens.
mothercats are neat as hell
a+ to the mothercats.
I love the whiny baby with the white face and paws the most.
A black panther is the melanistic color variant of any big cat species. Black panthers in Asia and Africa are leopards (Panthera pardus), and those in the Americas are black jaguars (Panthera onca).
Close examination of the color of these black cats will show that the typical markings are still present, but are hidden by the excess black pigment melanin.
Melanistic and non-melanistic animals can be littermates.
There are no authenticated cases of truly melanistic cougars; sightings are assumed to be misidentifications.
they’re all so perfect and important!!!!! I love that the OP clarified the important leopard/jaguar distinction, because it is IMPORTANT!!!! Black panthers are actually TWO SEPARATE SPECIES sharing in common a SPECIAL COLOR MORPH.
There are so many good things to know about black panthers and so many things to love. Personally: I love that black jaguars are so chonky. I love the visible rosettes. I love that the selection pressures of evolution, which normally create very homogeneous-looking animal populations in the wild, loosen their reins enough to allow diversity and divergence in the same species, sometimes even in the same litter. ISN’T THAT GREAT. ANIMALS ARE SO GREAT
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