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He's so excited to be your friend foam bubbles are building up on his mouth!

[โ€“] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 20 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Just think about your human friends.

They're all apex predators. ๐Ÿ˜Œ

[โ€“] hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe my friends are, but my potato self is definitely not

[โ€“] jaybone@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Potatoes are apex root vegetables.

[โ€“] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Hmmm, so you're saying I should carry an elephant gun when I hangout with my "friends"?

[โ€“] uis@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago

They are omnivores. But cats... Cats are.

[โ€“] FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

All of my friends are apex predators. Most of my family too (except for the dogs).

[โ€“] hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[โ€“] FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You're not classified as human?

[โ€“] hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[โ€“] jaybone@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

This is exactly how someone classified as human would respond to this kind of question.

[โ€“] jettrscga@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This feels generous given the average person, but I see where you're coming from.

People can surprise you sometimes, it's one of our superpowers.

[โ€“] MonkderDritte@feddit.de 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A few weeks ago, i read about people selectively breeding foxes, panthers and cheetas to make them tameable. So much to apex predators.

Trivia: those friendly foxes got a curly tail.

[โ€“] hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Ah yeah the Siberian fox experiment is interesting. They found that the tamer foxes had a tendency towards neoteny, ie. basically retaining juvenile features and slower development, and they even lost some of their intelligence too which was interesting. The same has happened with dogs, physically they're closer to juvenile wolves and generally they're also less intelligent than wolves.

Didn't know someone had tried the same with panthers and cheetahs though, that's pretty surprising. Sounds like a bit of a project to tame panthers of all creatures when even housecats aren't as domesticated as eg. dogs

[โ€“] MonkderDritte@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago

Pretty sure googling that with the panthers was how i got to the siberian fox experiment. Though i have no links, sorry.

[โ€“] ThePyroPython@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Are we back to bears again?

[โ€“] Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Back to the question of what's more fuckable?

[โ€“] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We haven't left since Conservative Icon Stephen Colbert tried to warn us about their clever infiltration tactics

[โ€“] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[โ€“] hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 10 points 1 year ago

This is definitely an apex friend, just look at those ears:

[โ€“] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Wolves are apex predators. Or were till we turned them into poodles.