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.
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.
Evolutionary household cats are damn near perfection.
Not a crab
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/
Part tortoise on account of the tortoiseshell, which is an adjacent water animal
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Hey, look a feature every mammal may need to evolve in the near future!
Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop fucking cats.
We need you back in the fight soldier, we need to make cat girls (and boys) a reality.
Furrda!
I’ve been fucking the dog for decades.
When was the right week?
Same week they started or ideally the one before that? 🤷
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
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.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!
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
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 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.
Sorry, I meant where else.
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”.
But why male models?
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
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.
I like cats, but this argument is dumb. The people I know who don’t like cats don’t like them precisely because cats don’t respect boundaries or consent the way dogs do.
People I know who don’t like Cats don’t like them because they expect them to allow them to cross all their boundaries like dogs do. You can’t expect a basically wild predator to respect your boundaries, you can however respect its boundaries and that is where the folks I’ve met who dislike Cats fail. They try to hold it and get scratched because it didn’t like it. They overstimulate it and get scratched because the cat didn’t like it. I’ve seen SO many people who dislike Cats because they don’t understand how to approach an animal with caution and respect, and think that because the wild predator responded to discomfort the way a wild predator would do, that Cats are bad or evil.
Edit, to clarify, my comment was about people who say Cats are evil, not about people who simply don’t like them.
Yes, you can’t expect an animal that basically tamed itself to respect your boundaries, and that’s why dog people don’t like them. They jump on the counter or try to break your coffee cup if it’s too close to the edge of the table.
But overwhelmingly, in my experience as a cat shelter volunteer, people who have owned catsand do not like them feel that way, not because Mittens got overstimulated and scratched them once, but because they cannot cope with their boundaries being disrespected all the time. It isn’t the cats fault, true. It’s just an animal acting the way it evolved to act–but let’s try to be understanding about why many people struggle with them as pets.
It really does take a certain personality to be okay with living with a cat.
Wow, you’re completely right and I never recognized this before. I’m your quintessential cat person. I’ve lived with cats since the day I was born. They cuddled with me in my crib. My first word was cat. We joked that I was raised by cats. I’m just used to cats and don’t often think about their behavior.
My partner is a dog person, so now we have a mixed family. When the dogs cross a boundary, we do something to correct their behavior and there is the expectation their behavior will change. If it doesn’t, we adjust our response until it does. When cats cross a boundary, we still do something to correct the behavior, but entirely expect the cat will continue doing it and respond no differently when they continue with the original behavior.
Amazing animal.
