Wild cat mothered by a domestic cat! - Making Animal Babies - BBC

[redmagician1000]

we once had a cat that weighed 60 pounds and was over two foot tall and he wasn't fat shoot one time he took on a family of racoons and won even though what im most impressed with is his triumph over a pack of coyotes twenty of them there where.

[busrel]

there's nothing really surprising, as African wild cat shares identical genes with domestic pussies. In year 2000 cat genetic study, it's almost impossible to tell from DNA clad perspective about domestic cat from African wild cat. Feral cats left in the wild can revert to wild cat within 2 generations and their furs reverted to tabby greyish pattern which is very common in African wild cat.

[claw247]

Do this with snow leopards

[ccrstarpanda]

@claw247

i agree, do with this tigers too

[Nutto666]

hah, looks like any other cat to me. goes to show how little cats have changed since they were first domesticated... or were they?

[salvolondon]

the mother looked so annoyed, probably she thought he is not my real son...huahuahuahua

[noodlesmealey]

should have put it in you,lady,(that is probably coming soon,see: transhumanism) did you ask that female tabby? (so the cost of this adopted uterus kitten is the same as a domestic kitten? (or is the bonus cause you didnt know what to do to earn a grant and a range rover payment?) she look duped and humiliated. better that a shampoo horn test in a lab i guess.

[Vire70]

@noodlesmealey

Wow, really? Transhumanism has absolutely nothing to do with humans giving birth to cats, lmfao.

[noodlesmealey]

@Vire70 -are you on drugs?  i ran out.

[Scizor3D]

they are the same since housecats are descendants of wildcats

[maximum411]

This video is wrong- the wildcat actually does contains the mother domestic cat's mtDNA (mitochondrial DNA) which is only carried in the egg cell.

[emeliUK]

@maximum411 Didn't you hear?

The embryo contains the sperm and egg from the African Wild cat spp. not the domestic cat!

so it contains no DNA from the female domestic moggy.

the moggy is just a surrogate mother!

[maximum411]

@emeliUK

Oh, you're right. I thought it was a clone, in which case somatic DNA from the wildcat would be implanted in a domestic egg, but yes in this case it was just wildcat sperm and an egg, so no domestic blood then.

[salvolondon]

@maximum411 but the egg cell didn't come from the domestic cat but from a female wild african cat who is the genetic mother of the kitten. The domestic cat only gave her uterus but genetically he is the son of two wild african cats

[maximum411]

hahaha i love how tour guides always talk in the same way

"But he is actually a doMEStic cat..." lol it sounds so bored and scripted

[elmalacopa]

I HAVE THIS CAT

[faithyfortune]

OH, WOW! i ALWAYS dreamed of doing something like this!! WAY COOL ANIMAL BREEDING!!!! THUMBZ UP!!!!

[CrazyMcSwaggin]

funny ones an african wild cat the others a NA house cat..

BUT THEY LOOK THE FUCKIN SAME

its a cat who gives a shit

[Fawful5]

Nice concept, but a bit of a stretch. African wildcats are the direct ancestors of the domestic cat, so their genetic material is probably VERY similar. Lions and tigers are further removed--but the two can breed normally, so cloning may very well be possible.

[slaskfittornaftw]

totally awesome!

[rey4every]

so!?!?!/!

[90102noob]

nice.

[siyengar9821]

Nothing refreshing and exciting than watching an animal play; especially young felines and young apes.

[kid29a]

haha that's good xD

[globalarte]

They may say that the wild cat doesn't have anything from the domestic cat (genetically) ... what about the mother/child kind of connection ? can this have some influence on the kitty behavior/perception of the domestic cat mother ?

[Fawful5]

No. Normally a fetus will inherit genes from both its mother's and father's sex organs, but cloning essentially overwrites them with genes created from the animal whose DNA you extracted and then implanted in the fetus. So in other words, the cloned baby's genes are ultimately inherrited from the parents of the animal whose DNA was extracted, assuming THAT animal was born normally.

[Fawful5]

Oh; I reread it and you seem to have been talking about familial behavior; what people call "imprinting." This naturally will occur; the same as a pet cat adopted by people at an early age imprints on them. Naturally they wouldn't stay together, but in captivity cats often become social.

[zibeddy]

next they will make the cat give birth to a horse.

[swishersweets666]

ahhahha

[Fawful5]

Not really possible. Even if you could initiate that fertilization artifically, a cat's body would not produce the right nutrients needed to sustain the embryo of a vegetarian animal, nor would it be able to produce nearly enough for an animal so much larger. Here it's different because the two are almost the exact same species. You could probably breed the two normally and even get fertile offspring.

[vizigoti]

That's really amazing!