The cat is a domestic species of small carnivorous mammal. Domestic cats are valued by humans for companionship and their ability to kill rodents. About 60 cat breeds are recognized by various cat registries.[1]
Coverage[]
Cats are featured in the documentary and Home Wrecked Home.
Documentary[]
Ray Coppinger thinks that cats could be like flying squirrels.
In 150 years after people, cats move in as insects and smaller animals get established in the abandoned skyscrapers. Ray Coppinger stated that there are examples of cats around the world like in the Colosseum which is loaded with cats along with the old tombs, old catacombs, and so on that are loaded with cats that use it as a living space and radiate out during the day. The felines are the descendants of former house cats, which immediately after people were gone, it replaced their human-supplied diets with field mice and small birds. While hunting out in the open was hard work, pickings are easy up in the skyscrapers and their whole lives live high above the city after 150 years where it find all it need to survive without ever having to touch the ground. The cats become kings of the new high altitude food chain with views of a bizarrely altered cityscape.
Eventually, life in the new environment could lead to some strange adaptations. Ray Coppinger stated that cats could be like flying squirrels and so on because they could glide from places and there are possibilities for some imaginative responses to the unusual environment.
Home Wrecked Home[]
In certain parts of the world, domestic cats could adapt and evolve to grow as large as bobcats.
In 10,000 years after people, the descendants of housecats have remained small and trapped in their ecological niche due to the presence of larger cats like mountain lions. However, under certain conditions, evolution could take a dramatic turn. Leslie Lyons stated that if domestic cats were isolated on an island where other cat species couldn't move in, the domestic cats would evolve to a bobcats' size accordingly to what actual prey is there to eat like if there's a larger prey such as small deer, the cats going to rule. She continues that the cats are already the top predator in most of the ecosystems they inhabit making it no reason why they're not gonna take control once all people are gone.
Gallery[]
