Saturday, January 12, 2008

Learning about Cats

I laughed out loud when I read Tony Woodlief's adventure learning about cats.

Dogs and cats are so different. We've domesticated dogs. I'm not sure anyone has actually domesticated a cat. They deign to live with us, but that's about it.

It's also interesting, from a biologist's perspective, how "plastic" the dog genome is -- consider the huge range of sizes and shapes of dogs. There are ranges for cat bodies, but it's much narrower.

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