Endangered Cat Born at Audubon

Audubon Center for Research of Endangered Species in Algiers, Louisiana logs another breakthrough in genetic engineering of endangered cats. Crystal, a rare african black-footed kitten was born on February 6, 2012 to a domestic housecat without any human assistance in the birth itself. Crystal exhibits all the characteristics of a black-footed cat despite being nurtured by a domestic cat mother.

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[purplekittiz]

She is how a wild cat is supposed to be, wild! Poor thing seems scared of the camera, but she is beautiful :)

[undernaut]

0:23 ---> CRYSTAL: That's right, I'm like only 40 days old and I'm already a badass.

[Jason Gunning]

Because it is not domestic. The kitten IS wild, after all.

[kristibrenton]

It is so cute butt is fysty

[gam903]

Because kitten dont treated like domtinc cat like socaltion

[gam903]

Its hostile because not its socalized

[Holammer]

Even if you raise a wild animal from birth, it'll still remain unpredictable and aggressive. Our regular run of the mill cats of today have been selected for specific traits by domestication for the past 10,000 years. Dogs even longer.

[raidwipe]

take a look at what type of kitten it is again.

[realvirtualinsanity]

looks like a regular maine coon

[yobizzaN]

why is it hostile? :s

[chexmix323]

That kitty is constipated.

[jdmapple]

Why is she apart from her mother? She looks scared and angry like Mila Jovovich in Resident Evil, and look how that turned out.