Unlike other mammals whose faces elongate as they mature, cats have round heads that remain relatively unchanged throughout their lives.
They have different coat colors, sure. But they all have the same baby heads.
there isn’t much to play around with other than coat
there isn’t much to play around with other than coat color.
foxes are perfectly happy going through garbage, whereas leopards will kill livestock instead.
Bears are the anticats. There are only a few species of bear, and they do different things.
Cats challenge standard biases in evolutionary biology. People have said to me, “What about bats? What about rodents? These groups have so many species doing all kinds of things.” And I’m like, “Yeah, because they suck.”
Monitor lizards are as awesome as cats. They are the cats of the reptile world. They vary hugely in body size—they have maybe an even bigger body size range than cats do—and they are all utterly identical. They’re also hard-core carnivores.
Unlike other mammals whose faces elongate as they mature, cats have round heads that remain relatively unchanged throughout their lives.
They have different coat colors, sure. But they all have the same baby heads.
there isn’t much to play around with other than coat
there isn’t much to play around with other than coat color.
foxes are perfectly happy going through garbage, whereas leopards will kill livestock instead.
Bears are the anticats. There are only a few species of bear, and they do different things.
Cats challenge standard biases in evolutionary biology. People have said to me, “What about bats? What about rodents? These groups have so many species doing all kinds of things.” And I’m like, “Yeah, because they suck.”
Monitor lizards are as awesome as cats. They are the cats of the reptile world. They vary hugely in body size—they have maybe an even bigger body size range than cats do—and they are all utterly identical. They’re also hard-core carnivores.
