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Different dogs look incredibly different - but that doesn't mean they are necessarily more diverse.
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phenotypic diversity - the range of different observable traits in a certain organism - for example, size, color, strength, and friendliness.
genetic diversity - the variation in the genetic information within and among individuals of a population or species
artificial selection (or selective breeding) - a process used by humans to develop new organisms with desirable characteristics
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1 why do we need to know the name of the narrator while other videos they just go along with it saving minutes? will knowing kate help us in the video? no 2 it sounds like she tries super hard to be cute and eccentric, just lay it all out next time we've been watching your videos and some of them just strikes us as really try hard pedantic
please lose the repetitive music it distracts from the narrative and the narrative is a bit sing-songy too which also distracts i can’t finish watching this as it is forced and sounds phony
Was feeling a li'l cat-atonic until watching the video... Thanks for the upload! Instant sub for you!! 😎👍🏼
They are already breading serval cats into house cat lines, which makes them a fair amount bigger.
Interesting video but the narrators voice is rather annoying
Han han I get the joke categories
Patreon link in video description has small mistake(!)
Literally 99% won’t see this but God bless u stay safe I’m struggling to get 1k with notis ❤️
I don't get how they can tell us at the beginning that dogs have few genetic diversity (with an image comparing two dogs from two different breeds), and then at the 2:00 mark they conclude that dogs from one breed to the other are very genetically different
Cats are always better. Dogs are desperate for human love. Cat's allow you to pet, groom and feed them.
giant cats already exist though, Maine coons are a meter tall on average. that's the size of a 4-year-old.
No pls no big cattos, i love them the way they are rn
which also means no bigger cats are not suitable for pets lol so this is fine, and I am talking Maine Coons are already to big...
please don't try to breed specific trades into cats just don't do to them what you did to dogs people, they are perfect as is
Lol. I see what you did there
Could it be theoretically possible for a house cat to be breed to the size of a lion?
"Breeding giant cats might be a giant cat-astrophe" (Ligers and Tigons are laughing 😹)
yes i want big cat
This video explained breeds vs species to me more than my curious Google searches
*I mean Dogs vs Cats in my opinion dogs WILL ALWAYS win and i'm allergic to cats so thats good i'll never have a cat anyway and i dont really like cats thats also good😅*
Jaguars can crack your skull with their jaws, and yet they are cats. Big cats.
i do like your stuff
How about we stop trying to play god by forcefully breeding our pets and "companions" just to google over their looks?
Dog owners: "What's the breed? Huskey?" "Nooooo! It's an Alaskan Malamute-pitbull-corgi-pug mix!! How can you get it wrong!! I hate you!" Cat owners: "What breed is that?" "Orange"
There are many types of big, medium and small cats, lions, tigers, pumas, caracals, servals, ocelots, sand cats, bobcats
This video is talking domesticated house cats, not wild cats
2:11 Cat egories. 3:27 Cat astrophy
Cat's:you can't improve perfection
Según evolución creo, especialización, convergencia genética y lo omnivoros, así como que siguen un patrón algoritmo genético de evolución, si ya detectaron eso quiere decir que ya vieron como funciona parte de la diversidad, posibilidades, ramificaciones de fractal, potencial evolutivo, creo y hasta como se comienza a leer de un lenguaje genético a otro, los encrptados se ven creo conforme hay convergencia genética y evolutiva, llegar al mismo lugar o solución por otra vía, como color de piel, es el mismo resultado pero en distinta especie, en uno llegó a color claro pero es otra parte del adn y viceversa del otro, son los mismos elementos químicos o bioquímicos de la tabla periódica pero de diferentes orígenes de el adn, llegar al mismo lugar por diferentes caminos, relacionados por ancestros de evolución, sugerencia los científicos, genetistas, biológos saben más.
Es como ver una maquina cuántica donde cada individuo es una posibilidad de la misma especie, solo con maquinas cuánticas se podrá analizar esto a futuro a menos que sepas las posibilidades desde un único, como saber que caminos tendrá si sabes de la dimensión 4d, cada persona es única y a su vez no lo es, es una forma de que la especie humana y masa sobreviva, sin mencionar redes neuronales, adn oscuro y como esta máquina se adapta al planeta, su geografía, alturas, latitudes, clima y gravedad, por eso en marte terraformado 0.55g y con luna se vería la siguiente etapa del adn, la evolución y hasta nuevo adn que facinara a la comunidad científica, ver otra vez esta máquina diversificarse cubriendo posibilidades como máquina cuántica pero de individuos vivos, sugerencia, buenos videos minuteearth gracias.
La diversidad es cubrir posibilidades como una máquina cuántica, pero en la realidad, cada posición, posibilidad y de una ramificación creo, como un fractal, como la dimensión 5 o 6 creo pero en biológico, sin embargo luego en selección, la mejor solución es la que queda generalmente, por eso creo que ciertos animales se recruzan, donde se regresa a la especie, una máquina biológica de una especie que se rejunta para volver a diversificarse para no morir ni extinguirse, junto otras estrategias genéticas o que sólo los científicos conocen de cómo funcionan las máquinas biológicas, sugerencia.
Came for the question, stayed for the animal puns :D
I want a giant cat 😿
Ok but when we gonna breed Great Dane and Tea Cup Chihuahua versions of cats? Let's get to it!
We need more giant cats 🐈
fold is different to times... fold is more representative of 2^(fold)... imagine folding a piece of paper in half 5 times (5 Fold) you would end up with 32 layers of paper. Great content love the channel I've learned so much from you, I thought you could learn a thing from me :) x
gaint donestic cat breed existed is called Savannah cat ... is Great Dane version of cat
I wouldn't call a Savannah a fully domesticated cat, since they have Serval in them. Servals are wild cats
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People who buy animals based on what they look like are shallow at best.
CATegories, heh.
I really hope we don’t over breed cats like we have dogs....
I think the most non diverse is humans. We come in pretty much the same size and same shape except for a few different colors...
I think breeding a large Maine-coon/lynx/cheeta/serval mix and then refining ou the different traits would be awesome (long legs of the cheeta, serval and lynx, no retractable claws, like cheeta, amicable and emotionally less temperamental, like a coon and a serval, more loyal and family oriented like a cheeta and a serval and a coon, large paws to make up for the lack of claws, like the lynx, then benefit from the health of the wild types), like successful wolfdog breeds, like the German Shepard, savanah cats have proven very successful (part domestic, part serval). And using 4 types of stock like this could render a varieties of coat colors, patterns, types, sizes, etc. If love a rich grey/spotted, medium/fluffy, lanky, social healthy cat that's 35 lbs, wants to snuggle and doesn't ruin my furniture.
Stop breeding. Genetic diversity is good!
different cats act just as differently as dogs, if you get to know them :)
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Maybe we could also consider the health of the animals, too.. Pfft, jks, who cares about animals life experience, let's breed squash faced cats in kitten farms, they will look so cute!!
Thumbs up for the puns.
"big domestic cats would just be tigers" y'all are so... do you know what a wolf is.
„another 100 years and careful breeding“... lets not :)
So dog genes are just very Versatile
Can't wait until diverse cats bomb middle east
I hope we don't do to cats what we did to dogs.... some of these breeds are genetic monstrosities whose whole existence is a plethora of disease and pain
I think we already know that very big cats are dangerous
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Very good example of the difference between phenotypes and genotypes
YEEEEEESSSSSSSS GIANT GAURD CATS
Humans have been Inbreeding dogs into heavy healthy problems.
3:16 Hundred years later, catgirls arrive...
YEAY human sized natural hunter that like to play with their food
I want a giant cat.
pog.
Diversity is a human concept!
3:20 I would hate that so much
"Categories" I see what you did there.
3:23 No. The answer is 'no, it wouldn't be.' Actually, the answer is 'no, what's wrong with you who WOULDN'T want that?' but that's a mouthful.
Love dogs! Have my own vid for kids on choosing the dog. nlworld.info/key/video/uK90manSbH6id64&pbjreload=101
Nice:) Will show my kiddo!
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Why would you try to breed cats like the dogs. Don't you guys know all the side effects the breeding caused? Are we all gonna pretend that doesn't exist and just sacrifice the cat's genetic health just for some unnatural huge cat?
This is all selective breeding, not genertic engineering. A lot of science folks like to equate this technique with those like capsid engineering, gold guns or CRISPR. MinuteEarth didn't do this here; it's just a point to make.
Selective breeding is a type of genetic engineering. The same process is why corn plants are so much bigger than they were in the wild, why watermelons don't have seeds, etc. Selectively breeding things for different traits = the very first form of genetic engineering
to everyone pointing out that we have lions Panthers and other wild felines, yes and we also have wolves and foxes. This is obviously about domestic pets. you donuts.
Why so many downvotes?
Je souhaite qu'un jour les gens comprennent que tous c'est croisement de chiens ne donne que des chiens au physique ridicule, avec des difficultés respiratoires ou avec des maladies génétiques, bref des petites abominations qu'on adore. De plus en plus d'éleveurs de chat cherchent à faire la même chose, leur but n'est pas d'améliorer une race ou encore de régler un problème, ils veulent seulement vous vendre un " bien " plus cher.
Selectively breeding dogs has led to a lot of problems in recent times. We haven’t messed with cats & that’s probably a good thing. Don’t get me wrong, different types of dogs for different jobs makes sense, but there’s no justifying what’s been done to brachycephalic dogs
I want cat with stilts and short body and cat with stubby legs with long bodies please
Aahhh I’ve been wondering about this ever since I was a kid 😸
Considering how cats are generally assholes, it'd be really foolish to breed them into huge assholes
🐱: oh, I watch cats 101! They're pretty easy to memorize! You should watch it too! There's the Maine coon, SFSH/SFLH, Persian, Exotic, DSH/DMH/DLH, BSH/BLH (British blue), Bengal, Savannah, Siamese, OSH/OLH, Angora, Van, Bombay (DSH black cat), Russian blue (RSH), Somali, and the Abbie (or the abyssinyan if you have time)! 🐶: ehh? Dog breeds?...I regret watching dogs 101...there's the pit bull--_pit bull is not a breed!_ ok ok...there's the staffy, the bully, the frenchie, the chihuahua, the German shepherd, the bearded collie, the border collie...uhh...Boston terrier.....uhhhhhUOAAAAAA THERE'S TO MANY OF THEM (only zoophilists and ailurophilists can relate. 😹)
Humans differ more than 0.1% in their genomes...
I DONT CARE, BREED THE GIANT CATS NOW!
A cat person definitely made this
Kitteh
Short answer, we’ve never really bred cats past their base forms. So we really only see regional genetic differences dictated by availability of mates vs a specific breed genetic difference based on desired outcomes of mating by us an outside influence. AND this is probabaly due to the fact cats aren’t really domesticated as much as acclimatized to living in shared environments with humans. And why is that you ask? Cats have really had one primary job. Vermin extermination. Which they’re naturally pretty good at..... Dogs have had many more jobs that required very different behaviors and even physical characteristics that had to be planned for or protected during the breeding process to maintain instinctual behaviors or remove them.
We bred dogs into the forms we needed. We didn't need to do that with cats, because they already had the exact body plan we needed.
This amount of paronomasias in one video should incur PUNitive measures
Dogs are different because they have been bred for different jobs. Cats are always unemployed free loaders.
We already do have giant "cats." Living with a tiger is ill-advised. A mastiff-sized domestic cat would probably be just as bad.
you don't know what "domestic" means
cat video, i watch, i click like
This female is annoying
Instead of breeding bigger cats like with did with dogs, why just not domestic tigers ? No suburb boy with a pitbull will annoy you anymore
Because dogs are inherently more “domesticated” compared to cats. A pitbull is more trainable than a cat
That's because cats are already perfect.
I hope we never recklessly breed cats. Munchkins are a scary trend.
What we’ve done to brachycephalic dogs in recent times is abhorrent. You’re right, let’s leave cats be!
"CAT-er-gories" Oh, hell no. No, you did not!
3:19 cat looks like its about to make a tiktok
3:19 KILL IT
Breeding program not likely. Remember that when you bred to a standard the ones that don't meet that standard go in the trash. Notice how most breeds were developed in Germany , well at that time they also tested new medicines on death row prisoners not lab animals . It was a different time with different ethics.
@Warwick Lewis Selective breeding can be problematic even if done using “humane” methods. Case in point: brachycephalic breeds like pugs. Looking as dumb as they do sometimes comes at the cost of THEIR EYES LITERALLY POPPING OUT IF THEIR SKULLS, but that’s a price some breeders are willing to pay
Or you could just humanely sterilize the animals you dont select and sell them as pets. Like most breeders do.
This is bizarre. I thought of this question for the first time yesterday after seeing a small cat. I shared it with no one and didn’t speak it out loud. The. This video appears in my recommended. Simulation?
I don't know about breeding giant cats, but I would be quite happy with more tiny kitties
this was the most annoying thing I ever watched
Also dogs being social animals leads them to adopt expected behaviour.
catastrophic. a ha I see what you did there
We need giant cats NOWWWWWWWWWWW
It’s because cats are useless
Disliked because you depicted the scientist as a black person - that's not representative of the real world, and thus I must conclude that you've engaged in virtue-signaling, i.e. "wokeness"... I hate that stuff.
Disliked your post because it implies all human beings are racist trash- which is not representative of the real world. You wouldn’t say this crap in person to others unless you wanted to be eliminated from the gene pool.
A friend recently asked what breed my cat was.. I was like, “idk just cat”
My cat is inbred. He’s very cat. He just forgets how to cat sometimes. In case you’re wondering, it was not my doing, he was a stray at first
Purebred, 100% cat!
The reason cats are all so similar is because cats are perfect already.