How Cats Became our Feline Overlords (ft. It's Okay To Be Smart)
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If you want to learn more about this topic, here are some keywords to get your googling started:
Puma: The big cat with the largest home range.
Felix silvestris: The wildcat that is the direct ancestor to all modern house cats.
Bastet: Egyptian cat goddess.
Pseudaelurus: A prehistoric cat that is the common ancestor to all modern felines.
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Video Director: Kate Yoshida (@KateYoshida)
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References:
Hu, Yaowu, et al. ""Earliest evidence for commensal processes of cat domestication."" Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 111.1 (2014): 116-120."
Montague, Michael J., et al. ""Comparative analysis of the domestic cat genome reveals genetic signatures underlying feline biology and domestication."" Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 111.48 (2014): 17230-17235.
O’Brien, Stephen J., and Warren E. Johnson. The evolution of cats. Scientific American 297.1 (2007): 68-75.
"The Lion in the Living Room"" - Abigail Tucker amzn.to/2ppLNxz (Public library: www.worldcat.org/oclc/956395842)
Vigne, Jean-Denis, et al. Earliest “Domestic” Cats in China Identified as Leopard Cat (Prionailurus bengalensis). PloS one 11.1 (2016): e0147295.
Human-cat burial image provided courtesy of Pr . Jean Guilaine excavations - Věda a technologie
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MinuteEarth WORSHIP THE FREAKING CAT FROM SAILOR MOON XD
MinuteEarth n
Adam Schuck ...
Adam Schuck
you* X4
know*
If you are trying to be serious, at least use proper English/Grammar.
my cat listens to commands :O
"I'll kill you last"
A perfect description of cats.
u meant, purr-fect?
yes, I did.
Reke =)
lol
reminds me of Bender from Futurama
The puns...
They hurt so bad
*vomits rainbows*
You are making me _fur-ious_
I guess you can say it was punny
astin tibet that aint a pun -_-
cat puns aren't *mew* in minuteearth. But *fur* me *purr*-sonally, I found them amewsing.
...
Oh gob, I'm sorry! I didn't mean to overload you of cat puns. I was just *kitten* . I'll leave right *meow*
John Apawan
Don't you mean amewsing?
For all the people wondering why their cats bring home dead or even sometimes half dead animals, the answer is that they are trying to teach you to hunt. In the wild mother cats train their cubs using a couple of steps
1. Bring home dead animals to eat
2. Bring home half dead animals for the cubs to get used to killing
3. Bring them along to observe a hunt
4. Have them help her in a hunt
5. Eventually she'll leave them hungry so that they are made to go hunt themselves
The first and second steps are what your cat is trying to do and since we don't get farther than that it's not usually apparent what the cat is trying to do.
So there you have it, next time your cat does that think of it like your cat considers you like its offspring and wants to care for you.
Unknown cute
My cat brought a half dead rabbit twice its size to my sisters bed--
I know
My cat brought home a dead mouse
That's oddly cute, that they're trying to take care of us in that way even though we all think it's gross.
Dogs: Humans give me shelter, food health
They must be gods
Cats: Humans give me shelter, food health
I must be a god
Very clever
old meme. but still gold
Lol
yep here we go the cats vs dogs comments🤦🏼♀️ btw I’m on cats side all the way
Y’know,not all cats are like that,cats actually helped humans lives before
The puns in this video hurt me on many levels...
You can say they are catastrophic.
holy cheese nice one there
That one made me paws for thought.
+jpchevron This made me paws for a mewment.
I should be able to come up with better puns but the cat has got my tounge.
I regret nothing
"Felines are murder machines."
My cat killed a moth once.... by sitting on it for too long.
My boy will torture the poor things to death....I had to mercy kill a few of the moths he was “playing” with so he’d hurry up and eat instead of hitting them repeatedly
S Rodgers so first of all, nice fenniken pic, and second of all, my cat is pretty much peaceful...
My cat sat on a lizard then killed it and brang the dead corpse to me to Barry it and I made a little lizard sized grave rip lil' Lizzie
Ace Dice it's because that lizard was looking at your cat in a funny way... XD
S Rodgers i have 2 cats and the only thing the've catced is a fly...😄
Cats can detect your heartbeat across the wall when you're in your bedroom. If they hear your heart beating slow, they know you're asleep and they won't disturb you. But once they hear it speeding up, they know you're in the stage of waking up. The more domesticated a cat is, the better they will be at this.
This is why some cats wake their owners up at 3 a.m (light sleeping stage) v.s more domestic cats will do this at 6-7 a.m (typical waking up time)
Slimeyhairball that's so cool!
Source
I always just thought they could hear when you started to squirm around more in bed or just memorized your daily routine.
Dog can detect cancer
dood: Cats are murder machines.
My cat once killed this mouse by farting while sitting on it......
that poor mouse ;-;
My cousin's cat was tea bagging a dead mouse
XD
D O O D
Wow
it's actually possible to train cats. Most people don't actually train their dogs so nevermind them trying with their cats. Most cats can respond to their names, learn to use a litter box and know how to open doors (even if they didn't figure out how to do it themselves). However, people rarely bother to try to train them even if the technique to train them is the same than with dogs. They are also harder to convince to do the tricks because they really want the reward to be worth the effort, unlike dogs who would do it even if no reward is in sight. So like.. if you use a treat or toy they like they might do the trick for you. Oh and according to a recent study, cats respond better to social rewards like being petted so that can be used as a reward as well.
The wild cat my sister found and picked up learn to always use the litter box and open doors and the funny thing is, if the door is closed, he even tries to spin the doorknob because I think he saw us do it and once, I even saw him succeed. I was awestruck! Yes, my cat does respond to his name being called but, I'm unsure, if that's because we call his name or because cat's ears are sensitive and/or they're curious to know where that weird sound (his name) is coming from. He also, runs towards us, if we call him and chases my dad when he comes home, so yes, cats can be trained.
My cat doesn't respond to her name, but she responds to "Come here Kitty" If you tap the ground next to you.
maybe the name is too long... but if it's not the case. If you call your cat, make sure you give her attention as a reward for her showing up or looking at you (even if it's a coincidence), like petting or feeding her works. Eventually, she'll respond to her name. Not much different than a baby haha.
tenedria yeah, look at those Russian circus cats!!
tenedria;
Her name is two syllables, and she only shows up for me, because I am the only one who feeds/pets her when she comes. She comes to me when I call her name, I meant she doesn't respond when anyone else calls her name.
I think I will just get my friends and family to do what I did, which was scratch her chin whenever she comes over.
Thanks for letting me take over MinuteEarth this week! I think I look pretty good as a stick figure 🙂
Hi, Joe!
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2:22 It says "3:00 AM" on the alarm. Coincidence? I tHiNk NoT!
it happend the same time while i was reading your comments lol
I tried counting the cat puns...
I lost count
After the ninth?
I counted 5
Oh u just got catfished
There were a meowntain of them, after all
I, for one, welcome our new feline overlords..
Hash Wijesinghe you beat me to it
... it's about time cats take the whole thing here in control!
Hash Wijesinghe same if cats took over the world I would totally be fine with that I mean like as long as I was on their side
kent brockman lol
I welcome our new robot feline overlords.
Me: "But how big is 1000 square kilometers?"
MinuteEarth: "200,000 football fields."
Me: "Oh OK that definitely helps me visualize it, thanks."
Exactly... 1000 square kilometers is already good enough. Why do americans compare everything big to football fields. Seriously, you guys need more accurate measurements... Nobody has time to say I need a 3/8 of an inch wrench... You say I need a 10 mill. Same with feet... My foot is different from your foot, or from your cousin's foot, or from Shania Twain's foot! Feet are things humans have that allow them to move. Meters, kilometers, nautical miles... that's stuff you measure distance with.
Benjamin Hershey
Its just very big
We'll leave it at that
it's about the size of the city of san antonio or badlands national park.
Megadriver Metric overlords who can't understand imperial bewilder me, sure metric is easier to switch inside of the metric system since its basically just 10s but the difference between the two is the same as a difference between languages. It's easy to understand either of them so why bother trying to be an elitist about it? Which is better, English or Chinese? Which is better, Thai or Russian? The answer is that it doesn't matter even a little so why bother looking down on a whole group of people for so.ething that comes more easily to them than you? Both Imperial and Metric shills need to get over themselves.
Shane Gossman
Well... It is easier if everyone sticked to 1 unified system. NASA, after all, lost a $100 million dollar spacecraft due to conversion errors from Imperial to Metric for the measurements of their spacecraft
*I have an attack cat named Silvia. She sits in the window all cute. If a stranger walks up to the window she hits the glass and lets out a screeching meow like GET OUT OF HERE CREEPER!! XD*
My cat's name is pudie. (pronounced Poo-Dee)
She does the same thing
But she class the window
And if they walk away...
She takes her anger out
On me and my family xD
Claws*
I have two cats called Storm and Shadow and they are adorable.
I have a cat named Haru.My cat does like almost the same thing as you but he will stick out his claws and like scratch the glass but hr just hisses at the person till he or she get out or move away
I HATE CATS
0:13 “meower days” that part made me laugh so much
0:26 “transfur” made me laugh
Demonetized!
Anyone who plays the game "Changed" has a very different idea of the word "transfur"...
So many cat puns. I'm proud.
MeMe_tRaSh :/ why? Are you trying to be edgy? It isn't edgy to be edgy anymore, it's forced and over used. Btw, you can be charged with 25,000 dollars and and few years in prison, also charged with manslaughter if they actually do kill themselves.
you mean purr-oud. I'll take my leave now
Kaite Powell fuck you, I wanted to make that pun :(
*puuurrroud
CreeperLord2020 CL20 dammit I wanted too say that meow I can't!...
2:30
this is the cat
that killed the rat
that ate the malt
that lay in the house that jack built
Reilly Madigan haha- I remember that book- it was so good
When you see keyboard cat, grumpy cat and, pusheen the cat ......
You know its good!!! 😍😍
Cats I recognized
Nyan cat
Pusheen cat
Keyboard cat
Grumpy Cat
Peaches (Neko Atsume)
Probably an Umbreon
I want to say pickles was in there
AetherResonant And Luna from Sailor Moon!
Edit: in here: 2:06
1:20 Can confirm. Our adorable little kitten, just a couple months old, managed to catch a wild rabbit and play with it. It was not playing very nice.
lovely
So, how many famous internet cats did you find in this video? Let's see who got a purr-fect score!
how many things did you do to make this???? imgur.com/a/s7U6S
also i found 4 and the nyan cat
I guess it's 5?
I got a purr-fect zero.....#SocialMediaInept
Loved the video....would love to see more collabs in the future!!
Where's Maru? Oh, at 0:07
Both pancake cat and ceiling cat are missing.
my cat brought my family a dead bird last week
That's a sign of affection
Zachary Perkins it's what wild cats do for their children to start training them to hunt so it means your cat loves you and wants to teach you how to survive
It's a sign of affection!
Free meal
I usually receive bugs and dead rats
I like how you explain this really good but add humour to it, love the animation
My cats knew how to sit, stay, lie down, fetch, get up, come here etc on command. I trained them to respond to voice and hand signals. They were like children and would challenge authority, but I win since I have the ability to open the kibble bag.
0:44 33 x 33 km is actually easier to conceive than 200,000 football fields XD
Thats more of a math versus visuals thing.
Merilirem still makes it easier to concieve tho
nope. it's easier to visualize 33 kms too
0:25
Now that you just created a pun, this comment section is gonna be flooded with cat puns. Just purr-fect. This is gonna be another cat-astrophy.
The first time you say “meow a day” and I thought you say “now a day” and I repeat it again and again and then I realize you say “meow a day” *BLOWN MY MIND*
the Egyptian cat was Luna fro Sailor Moon
HeliosKou No,that's umbreon.
Inan Chowdhury no it is Luna from sailor moon
Inan Chowdhury Umbreon isn't even a cat
GameGirl872 Well Umbreon looks lile one. XD
Inan Chowdhury a
Oh the cat puns.... Amewzing.
Ameowzing
They are PURRfect
Meow a days
I HATE CATS! But these puns...they are A CATastrophe.
I'm Daria MY TWIN
"It all started with the cat,who ate the rat,who ate the grain,that lay in the hut that our ancestors built"
NICE!!
Oh,you can't imagine how 1000 square km looks like?Well,umm,it's 200,000 football fields.
Can't anyone help me visualize some huge area *without* mentioning football fields?Heck,I don't even play or watch football that often!
Blade The Sceptile Do you use the metric systems? If so it's 120 yards long.
like, 25% bigger than the whole of new york
@Inan Chowdhury
No. The football field is the mandatory unit of area, at least for people making fun of freedom units.
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As a cat person who's assortment of cats are 90% stray, I can confirm that "meow" is a mama-kitten sound, since all the strays we've taken in have re-learned to meow when they want something; after they've adjusted to us of course.
Kitty: *_I HAZ GARBAGE!_* **while chomping down on something.**
Minute Earth, you have completely outdone yourself. All the pawsome cat puns....and Pusheen....100 out of 100.
when you put on this video, on your phone, with headphones.
and immediately your cat comes to you and tries to eat your headphone cable. and lays on your lap.
I KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING FLUFFY!!!
they must not know our secrets, quickly, act cute!
The cat in the click bait is pretty much saying
"Wake up human I need stuff"
Eeveeon The eeveelution master Its called a thumbnail not a click bait
Eeveeon The eeveelution master I don't think the thumbnail was misleading tho. Seemed fine to me
It's called a thumbnail.
"Felines are murder machine"
My cats hunt cockroaches for fun. They guard my home from it.
Cat: NYA~
Me: this cat is possessed we have to burn it
Mom: she is not possessed!!!!
Me: ohhhh okay
Cat: b#tch
Me: yep it's possessed
Cats are my fav animal, but i feel bad for those who hate them.. like those who had cats that bit, scratched and hissed at them n stuff.. i have 5 cats atm and had many more before that- they could be tricky to handle but they NEVER attacked me, nor pushed stuff off the counters.. i feel bad for those who had this happiness taken away from them :(( i love dogs too tho, both animals are awesome and i love them (also, those people who keep saying that dogs are better than cats and vice versa need to sTOP. you can like one more than the other but you gotta understand both have their ups and downs.. please keep this in your mind :))
EdinPlayZ okay you got me wrong there buddy. I said it's okay to like one more than the other, but that doesn't mean you have to go ballistic on anyone who says "cats are great pets" (i noticed dog people do this a LOT these days..)
There is no overall "better" in this situation, so.. ye (sorry for making you upset, i just wanted to clear something that has been bothering me for a while up :(()
I currently have 2 cats and one of them just attacks me for no reason. She has bitten me and drawn blood 4 times now, but she is 15 years old and we just got her from the shelter. So I'm just like "Ok guess I'm gonna get bitten every now and again, I can deal." She's a sweetie 99.9% of the time. Point is there are some cats that do attack, but it's worth it :)
Yoongi lol not my cats. They are assholes but they are my assholes
I’ve owned both a cat and a dog, neither of them were really mine but cats and dogs have lived with me for certain periods of time and I know what goes into taking care of both and I just happen to prefer cats. I love dogs too they’re adorable and sweet but I’m a cat person and I don’t see anything wrong with that. everyone who has ever gotten into an argument over cats vs dogs needs to have an internet time-out
S Rodgers Soo.... you stay in abusive relationships, involving cats?? Thats a new level of low.
I used to think cats grew up into lions.
That's so cute!
In my experience cats start off as tiny lions, and then grow up to lazy balls of floof
👏WHY 😂
Ya, they evolve like pokemon !
I want one of those ancient cats. They look awesome.
Great video 👍🏻
NOT EVEN 30 SECOND'S AND WE HAVE MORE THEN 2 PUNS
so
much
cat
*PUNS*
*"S T A Y C U R I O U S"*
*I NEED MORE CAT PICTURES PLEASE! ! !*
seriously, who drew all the kitties?!
LOL cat puns XD sounds like Chat Noir Purrfect
Dark Wolf exactly what I was thinking.
I haz garbage
OverGrower 04
Garbage guud
This video is purrrfect.
Ahhh, the sweet relief of cat puns😁
My cat is taking over my bed
MariEve how funny
MariEve my cat is taking over my body
All dogs will do that if you let them, many cats will and just as many won´t. My cat never wanted to cuddle when I went to sleep, maybe I snore? :)
MariEve lol
It is not your bed anymore it is his/hers
THE PUNS! OH MY GOD THE PUNS!
Are you _furr-strated_?
Those cat puns are punny
This is purrrfect
You Can train Cats o,O i trained mine because she had to be indoors for awhile because of illness. With no chance to roam outside she got frustrated. But the training (basics like sit, give me paw, turn right or left,...) Helped and she had something to do. It was an amazing time.
Those puns.. you cat to be kitten me right meow
My life is complete. 2 of my fav channels did a collab.
All the cat puns were so funny,i'm not kitten you guys.
I loved the Pusheen reference at 0:16! She really takes over the world!
People need to stop using "American football fields" as a measuring unit, only one country on this planet can understand that reference accurately. And while we are on the subject, please also stop measuring asteroids by how many times the size of Texas they are.
Both footballs fields should be banned from measuring units.
I shouldn't be any field. It's absolutely ridiculous to compare something to the size of something if it is thousands of times larger.
Meteorites are about 0.2 times the size of Texas
inthepocket
hey I'm an American!!
although, you have a good point... also I hate American football... and I actually call it that..
***** umm who? How did it not make sense? Oh is it because at the end I talked about random things? Ok lol
I'm watching this with my cat on my lap
I love the cat puns their purrfect 😂.......
I love your vids
Why is the recommendation full of random kid videos?
Logo for real though! I thought it was just me looking up SpongeBob clips
Logo I got a movie. Tom and jerry back to oz. wut.
yeah me too WTF.
That is so weird O.o a whole bunch of animated kid's tv shows and movies are in my suggestions...
most of them don't even have more than 2 thousand views.. the last five actually only have around 4 views, what the fuck is this
why are some comments "12+ hours ago" when this video has only been uploaded just now?
I love @MinuteEarth btw :D
Sky Walker yeah....
patreon supporters get access to the video before it goes public (which is what youtube shows as the upload date/time)
they link the unlisted video on twitter uup to a day before they release it.
Sky Walker
possibly patreon
1:19 not listening already fooled me with the cuteness😍😍😍
Pawstonishing!! so many puns!!
85 MILLION Pusheens In the world
Poor single puma.
You guys are the best I love your Channel please do more videos mainly Doberman ones
Perfect vid i love the put-fect puns
85 million cats on Earth x 9 lives = 765 MILLION cat lives #catlivesmatter
Haaaaaaaaaaa transFURmation... You get it? Because TransFURmation starts with the letter T and the word Cat ends in the letter T
Good one guys.. Good one =P
Its Purrfect! so Meowsome
AND PAWTASTIC
You did grumpy cat and my favorite, Pusheen!
as he said we still can't train them.. I am making my cat sit and do tricks..
Trash Senpai my cat can do the push things off the table trick
I've trained my cat to come with the snap of my fingers, jump up, search where I'm pointing, and the newest one is "No, try again" to get her to redo something. Cats are very trainable if you offer treats as rewards.
I train my cats to brush their teeth and push up 20 times before sleeping.
fluffydad1228 Lol who dropped you as a kid?
Lots of Neko Atsume
Peaches!!!
All hail Peaches !
T u b b s
Me: How many cat-puns u want to make?
Minute Earth: Yes.
Agh!! The cat jokes their perrrrfect for the video!!!
* Touches a cat, Gets Sick And Dies* " Thats My Story Folks! "
Why u hate cats!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Doge Is very Derpy my story is, touch a cat, cat wuvs you...
And also, I can easily tell that you're a dog lover... So all I can say is...
Try and count how much times dogs have murdered people, try and count it on your fingers and toes...
What's that, you need about 2,000,000,000,000,000,000 more fingers and toes just to count how much people have died from dog attacks?
TheOnly ShinyUmbreon 25,000 humans were killed by dog and 10M dogs were killed by humans and hope you dont get toxoplasmosis!!!
Alvin Arce when I see notification: whelp, it's probably just another hate comment...
After seeing comment: yup, I was right, it's not like this is the 121st hate comment today, can't wait to read all the hate comments that build up over night...
Alvin Arce and also, I do hope that I get toxoplasmosis, I have no point in life, so, the sooner I die, the better...
Ancient Egyptians worshipped cats.
Now the internet worships cats. Great job, evolution.
The punnnssss omg love it
these puns are purrrrfect
those cat puns were FURious
2:55 Pfft, what a dog lovers propaganda...
Jk, I like dogs too. :p
Enoth dog lovers a came to see cats
I have an adorable cat named Rufus! She is amazing! She's five years old and I'm trying to teach her to sit! Sometimes she actually listens when I say "sit!"
2:21 PURRfect good one dude
Last time I checked, being popular doesn't make you an overlord. Mass genociding millions does. (rip Stalin-chan)
Yea Stalin and Truman were the real baddies in the WWII
Starinu-kun and Zrumanuh-chan
No, control makes you an overlord. Cats control us, they get food and water, and shelter and love.
Also they do commit genocide thanks to being such good hunters.
2:10 is the UMBREON
SEPURF That's actually Luna from Sailor Moon.
Luna!
0:01
me hears that guy's voice from that channel:
*THIS IS GONNA BE GREAT*
All da cat puns are killing me
Puns puns puns puns TOO MANY PUNS PLEASE NO STOP
When I see cat, I press like.
'Felines are murder machines' my cats intentionally not kill the lizards they find and bring them to me because they know that I am fascinated by reptiles
These
Cat
Puns
Are
Purrfect
.
Amount of cat puns in this video is CATastrophic.
2:09 is that an umbreon?
I swear it's luna from sailor moon
monster allergy fan that is Luna from Sailor Moon
Definitely Luna from Sailor Moon
(Also" Luna" means "Moon" in Italian).
*fighting evil by moonlight*
I don't know how the song goes, we had another one for that show in Belgium " zeg het toverwoord "
I have six kitten and five cat I know this must sound crazy a lot of cleaning up but they're so nice and it helped me feel better and it's really make me happy that I know they are that we are with me
Loved the cat jokes;)