The fact that you need to tell people not to intentionally give their cat salt water is telling of how far we’ve regressed as a society.
Humans are naturally curious and lean towards the scientific method, that’s why we always need a disclaimer, don’t TRY this, they still will.
Still, that’s pretty impressive. Cats are absolutely incredible animals. I’m thankful the “worst behaved cats” still love me for whatever reason because I’ve been able to see some of the crazy shit they do.
My parents have an entirely blind 18 year old cat. She can navigate the entire house eats fine, plays a bit. Hops up and down furniture, finds the sunbathing spots, uses the litter just fine. You do have to keep an eye out for her if your moving around as she can’t smell fast enough if you step in front of her path.
They say the same thing about horses because of their kidney to body size ratio but it’s simply not true. It might help them survive on saltwater longer than a human would but it’s still a death march.
I could see that since horses require a salt lick anyway.
I feel like that just because of their body size and the fact that they sweat.
Evolutionary household cats are damn near perfection.
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Not a crab
Part tortoise on account of the tortoiseshell, which is an adjacent water animal
Not a great white either. Basically unchanged for hundreds of millions of years and absolute apex in every way.
Minus in getting hunted by orcas way 😌 https://www.outdoorlife.com/conservation/lone-orca-kills-great-white-shark-video/
I could say that is an impressive evolutionary feat, but instead I’ll say: Evolution, what the hell is wrong with you? You do know we all came from the sea, you should know 70% of the earth is covered in salt water, why did you think it was ok to devolve the ability to drink salt water but retain the requirement to drink water? Are you Ok? Do you need Jesus?
Evolution is considered a success if the animal lives long enough to successfully mate and nothing else matters to mindless evolution. At least cats don’t have curly tusks that borrow through the skull if they live long enough like that infamous boar species I can’t remember the name of.
Success is being better about producing offspring that can grow old enough to produce offspring better* than everything competing for your niech
*Better is the more optimal rate. Overpopulation is sub optimal
Hey, look a feature every mammal may need to evolve in the near future!
Are oceans getting saltier? The glaciers that are melting are pure freshwater
EDIT
I’m not an expert but from a quick googling it seems the oceans are getting LESS salty
https://www.llnl.gov/article/37921/atmospheric-warming-altering-ocean-salinity-and-water-cycle
Oceans getting less salt
Rivers and lakes in Canada getting more salt
But I think they were referring to running out of reliable fresh water due to drought
The issue is not more/less salt in the oceans, but fewer and less reliable sources of freshwater.
Which makes it the perfect time to evolve!
I suppose that’s only a short-term effect.
Long-term prognosis should be the oceans getting saltier because of the rivers carrying salt into the oceans until the equilibrium between salt being carried into the oceans and salt being sedimented at the ocean bed has been restored.
Well, in geological time frames ‘short-term’ can be quite a long timespan.You’re halfway there! If the oceans are getting less salty, where else’s the extra water coming from?
I literally already said the answer to that in my original comment.
I literally already said the answer to that in my original comment.
Uhh, no you didn’t? At least, not the way I interpret it.
It looks like you were saying “oceans are getting less salty, and therefore this adaptation is less needed”. But @SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world was saying “the reason they’re getting less salty is because fresh water is becoming more scarce, and therefore the adaptations are more needed”.
I think that what SpaceNoodle is trying to say is that the decrease in ocean salinity is correlated to a decrease in fresh water, so even though salinity is dropping, adaptations need to be made because we will run out of fresh water.
But why male models?
Sorry, I meant where else.
Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop fucking cats.
I’ve been fucking the dog for decades.
When was the right week?
Same week they started or ideally the one before that? 🤷
We need you back in the fight soldier, we need to make cat girls (and boys) a reality.
Furrda!
More evidence that they are evil creatures
I’m my experience folks who call Cats “evil” usually don’t have a very clear understanding of consent or non-verbal communication.
Amazing animal.
