Wild cat mothered by a domestic cat! | Making Animal Babies | BBC

Wild cat mothered by a domestic cat! | Making Animal Babies | BBC
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  1. A little curiosity, as the probability of a wild cat to be more affective than usual, it happens too with domestic cats, where they are more wild and aggressive than usual domestic cats, but with some of their usual behaviors.

    Like my black cat, he isn't the usual domestic cat because of his wild power, he doesn't like usual food and really prefers to go out and kill.
    Otherwise my white cat is really comfortable with the house

    When I see this video is like seeing my black cat playing and being Savage 1 hour or 2. They're really hard to handle

    Another thing, is that these cats aren't pet in the usual zones. They're like dogs in cats bodies.

  2. There is a lot more going on here than what they have mentioned.

    Firstly domestic and African wild cats are the same species. Domestic cats came from African wild cats and genetically they still are African wild cats. This means they can have viable offspring that is normal in every way.
    Lions and tigers on the other hand are quite different from each other. Lions and tigers cannot produce viable offspring when they breed with each other because they are simply 2 different species. Even leopards are genetically closer to lions than tigers are.
    But fair play. Lion surrogate mothers are obviously the best choice for producing the extra tigers. This is simply due to the size of lions and tigers being somewhat similar, and yes they are genetically close enough. The way the comparison is explained here is just not accurate.
    I feel like this video is bending the facts to make money and capture a bigger audience. This kind of commercialism is just going to miss inform people. Such a sad world when news companies can't just tell the plain truth.

  3. Big whoop. African wildcats are the direct ancestors of domestic cats so having a domestic surrogate mother carry the wildcat embryo to birth is a piece of cake.

  4. An African wildcat isn't endangered. It's listed as "Least concern". Now, if it had been a black-footed cat… I do understand that the technology could be used to create a rarer cat.

  5. Amount of animal we have right now is what the nature can afford feeding. Maybe it should be the same for human so we get more resources to increase animal population and bring back the extinct

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