Loyal reader “articulett” sent in a photo of his/her cat, a newly-adopted stray that harbors a well-known mutation. Here’s articulett’s story of the mutant moggie:
I arrived home late from work last Friday, and as I pulled into my driveway, I noticed a strange cat. He didn’t dash away as most strange cats did. [...]
by Greg Mayer
Peyton is a WEIT blog regular, who last appeared here in a post by Jerry. This is a picture of her taken by Jerry while visiting me in September. I put up a copy of this photo recently in Jerry’s lab, joining an illustrious group of cats that grace the wall outside his [...]
One of the best examples of “gene-environment interaction” is the gene (allele) producing the coloration of Siamese cats. The expression of this gene depends heavily on the ambient temperature that the skin experiences while the fur is growing. Cat World describes it (read this web page for a lot more information, particularly if you have [...]
by Greg Mayer
As a herpetologist with a cat, I’m always interested in feline-reptilian interactions, and here’s a South African tortoise that either doesn’t like cats, or likes them so much that it gets close enough to annoy them and drive them away. Note that the orange tabby, at least, appears to regard its interactions with [...]
by Greg Mayer
WEIT readers know that cats are a frequent subject of posts here, and that the origin of the moral sentiment is another, although not quite as frequent, subject. The two topics have occasionally joined hands, mostly in the person (?feline) of my cat Peyton (see here and here). Well, it turns out [...]
by Greg Mayer
I met this pale wraith of a cat in Fredericksburg, Virginia, during the same trip that I visited the National Museum of Natural History.
It’s spectral appearance seemed appropriate, because it was sleeping atop the stone wall along the infamous Sunken Road of the Battle of Fredericksburg. On December 13, 1862, in a series [...]
Fishing cats, Prionailurus viverrinus, are small Asian cats that live mainly near coastal wetlands. Yes, they do catch fish, but they also eat rodents and other things. (Click here to read about them, and make sure to listen to their weird cries by clicking on the sound bar near the top of the page).
Here are [...]
When I visited Greg Mayer last week, he explained that his cat Peyton was a “philosophical cat.” I naturally asked why, and Greg explained:
Cats are realists
One of the oldest philosophical debates is between realism and idealism. Both come in several flavors, but the basic difference is between their views of the external world: according to [...]
o.k., I’m putting up a midweek kitteh because I’m cranky and need some laffs. This is possibly the world’s dumbest cat: look what it goes through to get a drink!
h/t: Christina Purcell
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Update: I have a new theory about this kitteh. It recognizes the stream as something to drink, but doesn’t know [...]
