Together they pulled off the purrfect crime.

Ba Dum tssss...

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maddarreeooorrwwww..

Lol!

Id like to add that these's also alot of solitary cats that didn't evolve to be social or form colonies (which is the case with I guess alot of housecats). In that case, the reason they bring their dead prey is because the hunting instinct and the feeling of hunger are not tied together (which is why they like to play and stuff, even if most cats are kept well fed). They simply hunted something and bring it home to eat later (or share, like you said)

@@saytammm That's not...no, they DID evolve to be social, but IN CERTAIN CIRCUMSTANCES. Like the aforementioned 'sisters and their offspring'. Basically very close family. Toms roam from one colony to the other, fertilizing the females, and then getting driven off so they don't kill the offspring not related to them (which is why it's recommended to neuter toms to keep them from wandering off) and unrelated females are also driven off as well, because they're not part of the family group and they would compete for food. This is the behavior of the feral felis domesticuss, which while not exactly the same, does share similarities. Also while some cats are sociable than others, that's called personality, and you don't exactly 'evolve' one of those.

This just happened with my car Loki- he’s normally indoor but got out, coming back later with a ‘present’ overnight and when I went downstairs in the morning, I could smell the odor of death...which, in a split second, my non-discriminatory idiot French bulldog scarfed down before I could grab him. He stayed outside the rest of the day.

The domestic cat evolved from solitary wild cats that had to tolerate other cats to enjoy the grain-thieving rats that pestered early agricultural humans.

spellwing777 I know! I pretend to eat the gifts. Cat is satisfied.

Yes but you missed the next bit. "It wasn't me"... "but I wish it had been"!

*shudders watching my own cat*

Descustang!

Stomp it to death regardless

Bruh... Cats talk down to you!

Yeah aren't they just cute when they wipe out entire species?

@@JohnCena8351 just adorable! 😻 'who's a little murderer? You are mr. Tibbles'

@@rubyh.3838 thats why i'm more of a dog person

@@JohnCena8351 haha im more of a cat person but i still love dogs.

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rwby fans be like

study killing stalking :)

This is the best.

@@Brancliff every Fandom ever

How does this not have more likes!

@@VariantAEC Probably because everyone is reading it as eradicator instead of eradi-cat-or. Or possibly because it's in ALL CAPS....which everybody loves.

TIBBLES: SPECICIDAL MANIAC

Haha yes

HUMANS THE DESTROYER

You would think that scientists of all people would understand that this increasingly valuable animal was going extinct. By the way, you are really hot, Jasmine Huia.

Also the tail feathers were sought by many Maori for decorating the topknot of warriors etc . Hunted heavily plus predation from introduced species.

@@marlonmoncrieffe0728 It's a common enough concept now, but the notion of "extinction" was fairly new in the 1800's, and considered to be heretical by many naturalists. After all, if God saved them on the Ark, they must enjoy some divine protection... Right? Well, it turns out that not only do entire species go extinct, but genus, family, order, class, and phyla go extinct too! Kinda goes against the notion of intelligent design if 98% of every species that has ever been ain't no more.

@@marlonmoncrieffe0728 A bird corpse couldn't exactly be airmailed from a new-zealand island to london and to a certain extent on some islands it's not a simple (or cheap) operation now either. A one way journey to england from a large port in new zealand in 1894 could easily have taken several months; they had telegraphs but the message would have to make it across to stephens island too. Add to that some arrogance, ignorance and/or a little jesus dust and SHAZAM! It's gone...

@@marlonmoncrieffe0728 actually, "Scientists" also cause species to go extinct. Like the "Great Auk" (the penguin of thew north Atlantic) in the 19th century, when it was realised it's number were dropping and heading for extinction, "scientists" rushed to kill specimens so they could have it as part of their "collections". The last of them was said to have been killed by such "scientists".

Wicked Wildlife wow I’ve only heard about the Tasmanian tiger and I assume the cats didn’t eat that! What other ones are there?

Wicked Wildlife why don’t you do a video on it?

New Zealand would like to offer you 70 million Australian possums. They're ready for collection any time you like... ideally before they completely wipe out all the NZ plant species that didn't evolve to deal with "fruit eating tree bears"

At least you still have emu and cassowary, all the moa have gone. As has Haast's eagle :(

It's also legal to shoot cats and dogs because of the threat they pose to natural wildlife.

Yep, humans did indeed bring the cats there in the first place. Can't trust a human to be responsible @@renaminginprogress6903

oh kremit what are we going to do with you 🤷🏻‍♀️

Sup Kermit

SbAsAlSe HONRe I was wondering how far I would need to scroll to see a reference to that glorious video.

Yaaaaaaaaaaasssssss

I appreciate you for making this comment

*Release the cobra's*

does it go through french alleyways?

When I'm able to adopt another cat, perhaps I should name it Curiosity, after the Mars rover.

unfortunately, satisfaction didn't bring this one back

I will name my cat Darwin.

@@MatthewStinar name is stay inside cat

@@warrenokuma7264 that's my dog's name.

Probably prevented a bird flu plague

it's like you have a cricket Terminator. Nice for you.

At least it's quiet now.

Cricketus Terminatedus:EradiCATed

@@xponen same goes to my cockroaches infested house Since me mom pet a cat, A shet tons of roach carcasses literally litering the floor. Right now i see the roaches rarely today and im proud of me cats

Cool I hate crickets

I hope it’s because of QI

Mystery Biscuits oh yeah

Panthers?

RELEASE THE COBRAS

French alleys

Or, why not to evolve in a closed environment.

Facts

Too bad the predator called "man" has been introduced into every closed environment.

Yeah what is that predator responsible for the extinction of all the megafauna on New Zealand?

Yeah, New Zealand is pretty much a country-sized example of why not to introduce new species... :(

Cat on a leash? Wtf. Cats should be killed and their numbers limited

Gosh, the french alleyways comment in that episode killed me

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Don't forgot about Bill Oddie's contribution to matters

But if he knows the cat's location he can't know its velocity!!!!

I hate you so much, why do I laugh at this!?

@@Master_Therion you beat me. I just wanted to reply the same ...

@@edi9892 But that's Heisenberg....

Erwin made a mistake. You needn't a box, instead use a centrifuge ejection seat. I'll post a video.

Finally someone who understands.

Thanks for not blaming the poor cat.

And the American mink in the UK and Europe! They have decimated all the wildlife in our waterways since they literally eat everything. From small birds all the way up to adult mute swans. They will even kill fish, frogs and water voles. And they don’t just kill once like most predators, they will often kill one animal as well as any others they find in the area, which can have severe negative effects on the ecosystem. Of course this isn’t the minks fault and they have had a pretty sad history in the UK being used on fur farms

I'm guessing you don't have people over for dinner very often.

The hypothesis I heard for gifting is that cat's are demonstrating their usefulness of keeping pest away from food stock. So think of it more of as quota caching instead of suggesting that you eat it.

@@LeatherNeck1833 I'm guessing you haven't spent much time living in rural areas. Field mice are a seasonal pest for lots of us. It doesn't necessarily mean one is a terrible housekeeper. You learn to put you pantry stuff in sturdy sealing containers, etc.

@@beth8775 You'd be guessing wrong then. I grew up in rural America and worked on farms all my life. All of my friends growing up in South Georgia either grew up on the farm or worked for one so I do know a thing or two about the little critters. On the hog farms I worked at the rodents outnumbered all other life, but the cats were kept outside so that the pests never made it inside.

@@LeatherNeck1833 My family lives in rural Minnesota. We used to have a maid service come out weekly to really keep the place scrubbed and clean before us kids got older and started moving out, but Minnesota winters often drove some mice into the basement. Of course the developer who built our neighborhood was a cheapskate and that probably contributed. It's not necessarily an indication of poor housekeeping, though that obviously means mice that get in will stay a problem.

MYSTERY BISCUITS (oh yeah)

Oh right, completely forgot about that... and I just binged all of them

@@Zeldur oops. Goodbye sleep

minnie wild cats are hunters and predators it’s in there nature for them to hunt so not letting them is cruel

I prefer cats. They have plenty of toys that allow them to replicate hunting and they like to hunt bugs too

@@jamesa7542 Well then it sure is a good thing he owns domestic cats, not wild cats

@@jamesa7542 all cats are hunters.

@minnie wild if you live on a busy street, I think that “things” are being killed by the traffic regardless. If you really want to protect “things” from being killed, you also have to block off that busy street.

Panthers?

They hang around in French alleyways

Yup I was hoping for a subtle reference maybe about some shady character buying one after hanging round in a French alleyway

Justin Y. Omg I love you

Hello

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Look up Tom Scott's Citation Needed episode on the Stephen's Island Ren, for the reference.

I always wondered why my pets whiskers twitch when you move something by them, they can't help it even if they are completely uninterested, its just one of those reactions you never think about because your body does it without any thoughts lol

ba dum ties

ba dum tiss

Are you sure what you're hearing is a meow and not yowling or some other vocalization? Cause cats really don't meow at each other for the most part, its typically juvenile behavior. Meowing at the cats outside is more likely than not meant to get your attention, much like how a kitten does to get it's mother's attention, not the other cat's.

​@@ZombieBarioth I have 4 and 3 of them communicate with each other daily. Sometimes info is simply incorrect. I have fostered dozens and many DO 'talk' to each other.

Noi Jadis Cailleach it is in there nature for cats to hunt and kill its humans fault for introducing predators to a small island covered with vulnerable birds

@@jamesa7542 Yeah but its human nature to kill and eat everything as well.

Lol it's true tho. Sadly, cat lovers are irrational about how problematic a cat is. We have finite resources and meat is very environmentally harmful, having cats that are carnivores escalates this problem. They carry disease as well as mind altering parasites. Try to tell people this and they'll lose their minds telling you it isn't true. Their cats are purrrfect. Now humans also need to consume less meat, corn is super harmful to produce (doesn't help the bees any for sure, drains water tables), we need to include more insect protein as well as more flowering plants in our diet or we're all screwed anyway.... Needless to say a cat is just a resource waste unless you live in mouse infested... or pesky flightless bird infested areas.

@@stolenlaptop Buddy stop drinking the government water, the fluoride makes you crazy.

Tmp866 Toxoplasma Gondii, thank me later

why can't cats as a species just die

So why didn’t the Europeans just keep plenty of cats around to kill the rats and thereby reduce the incidence of the plague? They had cats at the time. They were originally brought to Europe by the Romans, who had discovered the felines in Egypt. Keeping pet cats as mousers had become popular in Europe by the time of the first plague. To fully answer that question, you need to understand the belief system of medieval Europe. Based on historical accounts and medieval art, people during this period were prone to many superstitions. The Catholic Church was the most powerful entity in Europe at the time, and the masses were consumed with the presence of evil and eradicating it in any form it might be believed to take. Because of their secretive nature and their ability to survive extraordinary circumstances, the general population came to fear cats as consorts of Satan. The innocent cats began to be killed by the thousands. The cats ultimately got their revenge, of course. Since there were few felines left, the rat populations increased unchecked, and the plague grew even more widespread. You’d think that the humans would make the connection by this point, but instead, they made things even worse. They began to associate the plague’s new vigor with the cats and even with dogs. They believed that since both of these animals typically harbored fleas, they must be the cause of the plague. Subsequently, cats were outlawed in many parts of Europe, and huge numbers of cats and dogs were killed. In fact, at one point in the middle ages, there were barely any cats left in England at all. Even though cat ownership was illegal in some regions, a few people kept their felines. Other people finally noticed that these cat owners often seemed to be immune to the black plague. Word spread quickly, and more observations of this phenomenon were noticed. This resulted in research, crude as it was during the time. Eventually, it was decided that the rats, not the cats, were responsible for spreading the black plague. Then, of course, everyone wanted to own a cat or two. And since cats are prolific breeders, it didn’t take long for the demand to be satisfied. The laws which had been the cats’ death sentence were repealed. In many regions, a new law took its place - one that protected felines instead of banning them and almost causing their extinction in Europe.

They'd have absorbed its power and become unstoppable.

Baz DiNova heck you

SkyreeXScalabar heck you

You can't keep your cat indoors their entire life, especially if you live in a house. They need to go outside like we do. Cats who never leave the house tend to be more aggressive because they are bored. Besides, they need to play and explore the world for the sake of their fitness.

Виктория Петрова yes you do need to keep your cat inside dumbass

Mostly people, though. Cats didn't bring themselves all over the world.

Umm, pretty sure that's a day late and a dollar short, friend. The attention was needed before the extinction.

I mean birds that are still extant and still have a chance.

@@HenrythePaleoGuy Gotcha. Ya know, we could just introduce a population of dogs to take care of the cats. I know of several countries with a feral dog population that could donate a starter-pack. (That was a joke, sorry couldn't help myself from irony of it.)

Tibbles runs Scaperune confirmed

@Alexander TT no, not about religion. This is us. We are all invasive species, just look at the native indian/aborigine/original people, where are they now? they are all poor and a minority, in their own land... how come? Because we are invasive migrants, we come and we displace original inhabitant.

xponen_ It is completely natural for the weak to fall to the strong.

Michael Leers TNR simply isn’t suitable in these circumstances, as the video states these wrens where wiped out it only 12 months! Here in Australia we have sucsesfullh eradicated cats from large fenced reserves which have become the final strongholds for a wide variety of species I don’t believe there is a single example of TNR working on such wide scales It is however the perfect solution for urban and semi urban areas where we arnt racing the clock to save a species

Thank you, for the response, however if Tibbles were fixed, a limited amount of damage would have been done and the needless suffering of the birds, cats, and the animals might have been mitigated. Wide scale TNR can work, if enough people care to do so.

Michael Leers the issue is Tibbles was alive in 1890, long before we where able to dears female cats Also here in Australia most cats are in very very remote areas, as in 1 person to many hundreds of square kilometres, I’m yet to hear of any sucsess in these kinds of environments Again I think TNR might have a place where there isn’t a species at direct risk on imminent extinction and where catching 100% of the cats is actually achievable

@@WickedWildlife Exactly, in places where it can be done TNR is a great idea, could help control wild cat populations in urban areas like you said, my city has tons of cats from people that decide a pet is too much work and then they just end up multiplying from there..honestly I feel like if you're not a breeder you should get fined or something if you don't get your pets neutered, especially cats. They're cute and all but they're also a highly invasive predator that kill tons of animals..and while it's not really a problem in most places stories like this show how it really can be in others.

What is TNR?

It's ok, you can stop now

Guess you've forgotten about the dozen or so ice ages, super-volcanic eruptions, fires, plagues/swarms, and meteor/comet impacts that sent over 90% of all species to ever live (flora and fauna) into extinction long before humans came on the scene? Not to mention the fact that animals of all sorts seem to have a nack for "trespassing" all on their own (it's how our early ancestors got to the Americas, after all). Rats, reptiles, and of course insects have all ridden natural rafts from island to island and across seas in the aftermath of storms. And if they landed in a place that evolved without them, the food chain got disrupted. So though I understand your point, it's not entirely accurate. While we are destructive, we are hardly at the top of the list; however, we may be the first species ever to directly initiate their own extinction.

@@LeatherNeck1833 No, the first anaerobic bacteria that filled the (relatively) new Earth with oxygen kept growing and growing, eventually replacing most of the CO2 with O2 and killing off their own species as a result. Our demise is just a bit more self-aware.

@@JBC352 Very true! Forgot about those guys.

@@LeatherNeck1833 have you heard about this species which displace native population? they have blue eyes and yellow hair, they are tall!

@@xponen So you're saying the blame lies solely on the Norwegians? Interesting...

too much

what the hell kinda puns are those?

How about violent sex???

@@richardscathouse no ok because it still involves sex