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The "weird thing" being: 'A Cat's posture should change as it gets older, but it doesn't'
by tshadwell 11y ago
The "weird thing" being: 'A Cat's posture should change as it gets older, but it doesn't'
- ams6110 11y agos/older/larger/
- raldi 11y agoThank you; I hate when the answer to a clickbait title is buried deep in an article.
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- tshadwell 11y agoCorrection (thanks ams6110): The "weird thing" being: 'The posture of larger cats should be different to smaller cats, but it isn't'. “It's famously said that a lion is just a scaled-up house cat,” says Anjali Goswami from University College London, who works with Hutchinson. “That's very weird.”
- ypeterholmes 11y agoStill didn't quite capture it: "When animals get bigger, their posture changes. Their legs tend to straighten, becoming stiffer and more pillar-like to better support their weight. Not so with cats. When a lion strides across the savannah, it has essentially the same posture as the domesticated tabby that slinks over your lap. Lions, tigers, and leopards—oh my—are, as Hutchinson writes, the only large, crouching mammals." However I agree this article could have been a tweet.
- mst 11y agoI think the article could've stood a bunch of editing, but (at the least to this repeat cat owner) the humour of their attempts to get the cats to co-operate was well worth retaining.