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The average cat’s reaction time is approximately 20-70 milliseconds, which is faster than the average snake’s reaction time, 44-70 milliseconds. ⬆️TOP POST ⬆️
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u/atworkrightnow19 9d ago
Cats are fucking BAMFs when it comes to small or similar sized things.
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u/sleepingfox307 9d ago •
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Idk man, I saw a video today of a housecat just straight up swiping meat out of a freakin alligator's mouth.
It's the attitude, they're like the Bruce Lee of the animal world.
Imagine sitting in a bar and some little dude strolls in like he owns the place and the place next door, but isn't loud about it, he just exudes quiet confidence without a damn word and carries himself like he knows something no one else does...and he sits himself down and wipes a fry off your plate faster than you can blink.
I wouldn't mess with him either lol.
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u/atworkrightnow19 9d ago
Yeah I have seen many cats lose to dogs, so... Yeah size is most important. I would say that your not wrong but there is a reason they say cats have 9 lives.
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u/sleepingfox307 9d ago •
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Oh for sure, they're not invincible.
I'm just saying across the animal kingdom, idk any other animal with quite the same attitude and intellect as most cat species display.
Except Honey Badgers.
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u/I_loathe_mods 9d ago
Honey Badgers don't give no fucks
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u/godinmarbleform 9d ago
Honey Badgers give many fucks mainly "fuck you"s
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u/I_loathe_mods 9d ago
No no no. They will fuck you up but won't give a fuck while doing it.
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u/wrongitsleviosaa 9d ago
I'd consider fucking someone up "giving a fuck" by the law of transitive property, as you are "giving someone" a "fucking beatdown"
Thank you for coming to my TEDtalk
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u/whatisthis435879 9d ago edited 9d ago
They do have the BEST kill rate of any other species. 50%
I am apparently wrong, not #1 but still a 50% prey catch stat
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u/sleepingfox307 9d ago
That they do!
Hands down the most effective predators on earth.
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u/tt54l32v 9d ago
Not quite, dragon fly is the winner.
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u/sleepingfox307 9d ago
Oh yes I forgot those zippy little bastards.
It's not a fair competition, give cats omnidirectional flight and see what they do!
(But don't actually, I kind of like us being the dominant species)
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u/HungerISanEmotion 9d ago
It's not a fair competition
African wild dogs 80% success rate.
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u/Boost_Attic_t 9d ago
I assume they meant solo kills. Idk if hunting in packs is tracked the same as alone
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u/slitcuntvictorin 9d ago
Because they hunt by exhausting the prey.
Cats are ambush predators who hunt smaller prey.
Both have advantage over lets say a pack of lion who have to kill prey actively. And their prey is much powerful than themselves.
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u/SNZ935 9d ago
Isn’t there a small cat species that has the highest kill rate outside the dragon fly? Not saying they would take a large animal but still high percentage.
Edit: plus cats as an invasive species can easily decimate an ecosystem. They are crazy killers and glad that domesticated cats are rather small.
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u/Dr_Fluffles 9d ago
Yeah they don't chase shit. They anticipate where their prey is going to be so they can intercept them mid flight. It's dope as hell.
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u/Jakooboo 9d ago
They are super, super cool to watch. When our garden is blooming, they post up on our sunflowers and just WAIT.
Then, in what feels like no time at all, they dive off, grab their prey, and sit back on their spot like it isn't a big deal to munch away.
Dragonflies also have a hell of a bite, I've had a few take a chunk out of me when collecting and observing (and then releasing).
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u/Cordura 9d ago
Nope. Dragon fly is number one, then African wild dog, and then the African Black-Footed Cats is number three
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u/cactuarknight 9d ago
I mean, not any species, dragonfly rocks 97%
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u/doylehawk 9d ago
I’m pretty sure among them the best killer cat is that little tiny cute one with the big eyes too lol
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u/SLAP_THE_GOON 9d ago
Coyotes, owls, eagles, hawks do not give a fuck about how confident the cat is. They murder cats like it’s any other prey.
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u/the-just-us-league 9d ago
In cats' defense, I've also watched the same neighborhood cat kill and eat 3 owls now.
I've nicknamed him the Hunter of Ga'Hoole.
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u/anivaries 9d ago
That big hairy rat looking thing that sits on alligators and just doesn't budge. Capybara?
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u/sleepingfox307 9d ago
You shouldn't talk about your mother that way.
That might be a bit of a different story, because I don't think they are seen by the gators as potential competition, but I must admit, the size of balls it would take to sit on a gator as if it was a drawing room chair must make it difficult for them to do so comfortably.
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u/Disastrous_Air_3156 9d ago
I've also seen our cat chase off the neighbours medium size dog. It depends on how confident the dog is I guess
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u/Guitarytown 9d ago
Kitty cats are nature’s premier land predators. Cute little murder machines.
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u/TheMiserableMunchlax 9d ago
My dogs lose to my cats all the time. Then again my dogs are complete idiots so its not surprising.
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u/Yeti-420-69 9d ago edited 9d ago
My 9-pound Ragdoll could kill me if she put her mind to it
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u/RNGreed 9d ago
I believe they're one of the most successful hunting animals in the animal kingdom.
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u/SymphonicBlade 9d ago
Aside from dragonflies, Peregrine Falcons and African wild dogs, felines are pretty much the most successful predators out there.
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u/iStillPlayPS3 9d ago
Saw a peregrine falcon flying back and forth in a valley in Canada, at the north end of Lake Superior. It was unbelievable how fast that thing could fly. It was like watching a guided missile
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u/jambonetoeufs 9d ago edited 8d ago
Once witnessed a Peregrine Falcon dive bomb a pigeon. Pigeon was having a normal NYC day searching for snacks on the sidewalk, then outta nowhere poof it was gone.
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u/Butthole_Alamo 9d ago
Me, rolling my eyes, as I have a 100% sandwich predation rate.
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u/tasty_titties 9d ago
Cats can fuck up humans. They are incredibly nimble and have claws that will infect the fuck out of you. Cat scratch fever!
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u/TacohTuesday 9d ago
Yes they can. There's a well known video online (I don't have the link handy) of a woman kicking snow at a cat (probably a ferile one) in her front yard. The cat has enough and launches five feet off the ground, claws out, right at her face, and grabs on to her head. Video then ends.
I imagine she was a mess after that incident.
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u/radicalelation 9d ago
Another fun one is the girl that tried hiding in a suitcase to prank her boyfriend, but it flips some switch in the cat that she's a threat. Cat wrecks her, and she showed off her injuries after.
Personally, I'd rather take on a large size dog vs a cat of the same size.
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u/KillerOtter 9d ago
A cat the same size as a big dog is just a straight up mountain lion, yeah I'm good thanks
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u/CheerioJack 9d ago
I served with a guy who had to leave the Army because his GF got a cat and it clawed his right eye out.. combat veteran literally lost his eye to a cat of all things.
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u/matlynar 9d ago
"BAMF" means "Badass motherf*cker" in case anyone else is wondering.
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u/madflash711 9d ago
Let me just film while my cat fights a snake. No chance of it going wrong.
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u/Seth_Imperator 9d ago
Must be used to that encounters...or perhaps the snake owner is filming
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u/LonnieWalkerLXVIIII 9d ago
Nah man, this is a Pokémon league battle and Pokémon tv is filming
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u/CrashBandicoot30 9d ago
Classic matchup - go Meowth
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u/loshopo_fan 9d ago •
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It only looks like a snake because the video is mirrored. It's actually an Ekans.
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u/GODDAMNFOOL 9d ago
Or perhaps they're stray cats and a stray snake. Not every animal in the world has an owner
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u/dodexahedron 9d ago
You know... I've never heard "stray snake" before. 🤔
Isn't that usually just called a snake?
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u/i_like_fish_decks 9d ago
Can tell indoor cat owner vs barn cat owners lol
If you have an outdoor cat of a decent age, it does not need your protection. And if it does, you probably don't want to fuck with whatever it is either
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u/ConShop61 9d ago
My cat literally ran away when she was a couple of months old, 3 days later it appeared in my window waiting for me to open it. These mfs are tough
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u/jokersmokertoker2017 9d ago
Growing up my mamaw had an orange tomcat that would go missing for a couple months at a time. All of a sudden he would show up with scabs and cuts and everything else from fighting and tom cating while he was gone like nothing ever happened. He would hang around for a few months to heal and recuperate and then he'd be gone again. When she died he disappeared for about 2 years and everyone just assumed that he had met his end but all of a sudden, one day he just showed back up with no ears (they had been literally chewed off in fights) and waiting to be fed. He stayed around for another year or two and then one day he just disappeared for good. We never knew exactly how old he was but adding up the time that we knew about, he had to be close to if not a little over 10 years old when he finally disappeared.
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u/TrapWolf 9d ago
Grew up on a farm, not happy about it but does make me glad that I understand animals in a way a large swath of people do not seem to
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u/FieelChannel 9d ago
I didn't grew up in a farm and the point is pretty straightforward to me. People on reddit are just dumb don't worry
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u/Tiger5804 9d ago
It doesn't appear at first glance to be a venomous snake with front facing fangs, though I can't specifically identify it. Without any real risk of a venomous bite and with the cat's size advantage, there pretty much was no risk of it going wrong. When it comes to small to medium sized animals, cats are pretty much impossible to beat in one on one combat.
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u/omgitschriso 9d ago
Lol what about the snake? Just cool with a foreign, introduced species killing a local native animal on camera, for fun?
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u/Dexiel 9d ago
Why yes, my cat hunts rats native to my country. Said rats are of Least Concern.
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u/No-Freedom-1995 9d ago edited 9d ago
guys, stray and feral animals exist outside of your suburban bubble. It's actually the norm in most of the world. No not outdoor pet cats, and no not neglected escaped cats. Cats that have lived continuously existed with no owner for as long as people have been around
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u/joec_95123 9d ago
I found stray cats living in the Amazon jungle of all places. Not jungle cats either, just stray housecat type of cats.
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u/ChainDriveGlider 9d ago
there's stray cats all over the beaches in hawaii. One stole half a pizza from me when I wasn't looking, just dragged it off.
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u/Junstar 9d ago
The fuck is he supposed to do with an average human reaction time of 250ms
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u/FEAR_LORD_DUCK 9d ago
Looks like strays, you can see 2 more in the background when the video starts
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u/SoSaysDave 9d ago
There are 600 million cats on the planet, covering nearly every continent, and their DNA has changed very little over 10,000 years. They are easily one of the most successful land species.
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u/Redcarborundum 9d ago
And the fact that humans find them adorable is a big part of that success.
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u/Crafty-Crafter 9d ago
There is a theory out there that cats' poops affect our brain so that we "have" to love them.
That our cuz they are cute little fluff balls.
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u/Parody101 9d ago
Is there a prion disease cat feces transmits? I’m not aware of any.
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u/thedepartment 9d ago
Nothing they transmit as far as I'm aware, only connection I know of between cats and prions are the ones who developed FSE after exposure to British beef during the BSE nightmare.
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u/username7953 9d ago
Yeah. I call shenanigans on that one. I thought prions to be transmitted through eating other human brain
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u/Parody101 9d ago
I think you can get it from eating other infected material like mad cow disease, but I’ve never heard it from the feces, yeah.
I know Toxo can be from cat feces which is why they tell pregnant women not to clean the litter box. Although as a vet it’s fairly overblown as a topic in the indoor cat population regardless.
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u/thecatdaddysupreme 9d ago
I’ve never once heard about cat shit transmitting prions…? Toxoplasmosis for sure, mainly for outdoor or indoor/outdoor cats
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u/BaronsDad 9d ago
The 3rd season of the Last of Us is going to be cat controlled humans vs fungus controlled humans
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u/devildogmillman 9d ago
Joel: So its you… youre whose caused all this pain
Garfield: Give me the girl, Joel… John was never this difficult
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u/cat-toaster 9d ago
Toxoplasma gondii is a parasite found in cat poop that makes rodents lose their fear of cats, but is not proven to make people love cats more.
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u/hush-ho 9d ago
Thank you! This is just something cat-haters like to say because they don't understand why people find cats lovable. Gotta smear cats as dirty and manipulative, and cat owners as crazy.
I don't need to be worshiped, and cats are cute and funny. Doesn't need to be complicated.
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u/OddS0cks 9d ago
Also the fact we haven’t fucked them up trying to pure breed them like we’ve done with dogs. Though I am seeing more “purebred” cats which is annoying
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u/beldaran1224 9d ago
We have, actually. Munchkin legs and ear folds are a real problem. It isn't to the degree of the worst purebred dogs, afaik, but it's still more than bad enough.
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u/nevemno 9d ago
aren't there the cats with the flat face that also have a breathing problem? Caughing up balls of hair also doesn't seem lika good thing.
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u/zzazzzz 9d ago
the hair thing is normal. just think how a cat cleant itself by lickng the fur constantly.
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u/Borthwick 9d ago
Yeah, because in the majority of places, local animals didn’t evolve alongside cats, and therefore are more easily predated by them. Outdoor cats are a major detriment to the environment.
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u/Redqueenhypo 9d ago
Shhh, the outdoor cat owners are here to brag about how their beloved foofy can kill any wild animal it wants
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u/Borthwick 9d ago
All those extremely dangerous fledgling birds and shrews better watch out!
Seriously though, normally it spawns some anger from people, but so far people seem to be upvoting it, so hopefully awareness is spreading! Such an easy fix, keep em inside and play with them, my cat doesn’t seem to mind inside life one bit.
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u/fifty2weekhi 9d ago edited 9d ago
Cats must really look down on human as far as reaction time.
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u/Official-Socrates 9d ago •
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I think cats look down on humans period.
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u/33rus 9d ago
and that's why we worship them
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u/lasssilver 9d ago
It's one of my favorites:
Dogs: "Wow, humans feed me, water me, and love me. They must be Gods."
Cats: "Wow, humans feed me, water me, and love me. I must be a God."
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u/RealCowboyNeal 9d ago
Humans enslaved dogs so they can do our bidding and they love us for it for some reason.
Cats enslaved humans so we can do their bidding and we love them for it for some reason.
Does anyone still think dogs are smarter? I think not.
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u/yourguidefortheday 9d ago
They love us for it because while domesticating them we killed the ones that didn't love us.
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u/PricelessHabs 9d ago
I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals. - Winston Churchill
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u/Arcanorum 9d ago
I had my cat for almost 10 years before I realized she had been humoring me when we played games, not once had she shown me even 50% of her speed.
One day she accidentally got outside and caught a bird. I got her in place with one hand and forced her to release the bird from her mouth with the other. It tried to fly away, but she instantly snaked her paws out of my grasp and got the bird again. Get it out of her paws and somehow she immediately has it back in her mouth. Rinse and repeat a few times holding her in all sorts of ways, but in the end I had get a friend to help.
It made me realize she saw me like the pesky younger sibling who completely sucks at games, so she had to tone it down and let me win. She pitied how slow, uncoordinated and stupid I was, so she humored me so we could have fun.
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u/Undeity 9d ago
This has made me realize that my cat has probably been letting me win at Hot Hands, all this time. Dammit, Roxie, I want a rematch!
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u/mnbvcxz123 9d ago
I like how the cat is eye-fucking the snake from 2 inches away up to the moment it strikes.
This is a successful strategy for cats, and helps them face down and scare off much bigger and stronger opponents.
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u/Tshdtz 9d ago
Fun fact to make this even more bad ass. Cats are nearsighted, anything within a foot of their eyes they can't focus on. Them whiskers, though.
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u/Minecraftboyplex 9d ago
do you mean longsighted? nearsightedness is where you can't focus on something further away
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u/tarheel2432 9d ago
That would be farsighted my guy.
Can I unsubscribe to cat facts?
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u/Available_Major_8281 9d ago
Live look at me trying to kiss the wife when she’s mad at me.
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u/DanyDies4Lightbrnger 9d ago
"Cat-like reflexes" is a term for a reason.
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u/mr_fantastical 9d ago
I will start using "snake-like reflexes" to describe people who react quickly, but not as quickly as cats.
Oh, the burns I will deliver!
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u/El-Vader-Tico 9d ago
Actually in some countries, people who live in the forest or some type of country place... the Gov encourage them to have cats. Its a way of protection against snakes and other dangerous animals.
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u/Crafty-Crafter 9d ago
A lot of places do this. The issue is that house cats are actually quite devastating to nature and local wildlife.
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u/0k_KidPuter 9d ago edited 9d ago
Their kill rate while hunting in one of, if not the highest in the animal kingdom if im not mistaken.
Edit: as it were, i was misinformed. Turns out dragonflies are the real Rambos of the animal kingdom.
I also read down a ways somewhere that "orcas have a 100% kill rate 60% of the time." Im paraphrasing, but something like that. Food for thought.
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u/The_Thunder_Child 9d ago
You've mistaken cats for dragonflies.
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u/0k_KidPuter 9d ago
For real?
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u/AraLonely 9d ago
Dragonfly's are basically fully optimized hunters. perfect control of all 4 wings to fly in any direction (and fast) and the best eyesight in the animal kingdom, like 330 degrees of visibility. Apparently they even have dedicated brain signals just to focus on and track prey.
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u/morallycorruptgirl 9d ago
Humans designed helocoptors after the body of a dragonfly!
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u/BagelsAndLoxx 9d ago
For kill rate it's dragonflies, but the sheer volume of killings by cats is astronomically more impactful. it's approximately 2.4 billion birds that are killed by cats a year. And that's just birds.
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u/Odd-Butterscotch-495 9d ago
Dragonflies are awesome to have around especially if you have gnat or mosquito problems. Fun to watch them hunt
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u/Tribult 9d ago
And on the other side, my house cat panicked and ran into the wall the other day when I farted
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u/Infynis 9d ago
Yeah, but how quickly did it do that
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u/AnalBees2 9d ago
Probably as quick as the fart went from inside butthole to outside
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u/Jude_memer 9d ago
For reference, what is a human reflex speed?
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u/AgentOfChaos-uk 9d ago
Mine is measured in days
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u/Bolomol 9d ago
From a fast Google search 150 to 300 milliseconds
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u/CoreyReynolds 9d ago
Sounds right, on a bad day mine sits at 200ms ish, although when I'm completely on autopilot it feels light years faster.
Ever seen a glass or another object fall off the side of your kitchen counter 4 feet away out of the very corner of your eye and before you know it your hand is underneath it ready to catch it? And it falls gracefully in your hand and you don't even think about it. That's bloody fun.
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u/seenboi 9d ago
Reflex actions are something like twice as fast since your brain doesn't have to shout down your long body first
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u/gottauseathrowawayx 9d ago
somewhere in the 200-400ms range - way slower.
A big part of that is because the signals to/from the brain have to travel like 8x as far
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u/Jifjafjoef 9d ago edited 9d ago
Focused between 200-300 milliseconds. Relaxed between 800-1200 milliseconds.
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u/Balla1928Aus 9d ago
Underrated video. That’s so fucking impressive. Used to amaze me watching the cat walk across the 1 inch fence cap like it was nothing.
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u/luckysonic2 9d ago
I think its one of those 'rescue animal' videos circling, where ppl purposefully put animals in danger and then 'rescue' them for clout and praise. Often puppies and kittens, and many times the animal dies. Its extremely cruel and needs to be banned.
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u/NauvooMetro 9d ago
When we got our cat, our dog would bark at him and act aggressive. I should add the cat is much bigger and the dog is a 15-year old teacup poodle so no one was at risk here. The poodle was doing his usual one night when the cat took his front paw and bopped the dog right on top of the head two times about as fast as I can blink. The dog looked around like "DID YOU SEE? DID YOU SEE WHAT HE DID TO ME? YOU ARE ALL WITNESSES!" Anyway they've been really good friends ever since.
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u/allycat315 9d ago
the cat is much bigger and the dog is a 15-year old teacup poodle so no one was at risk here
sounds like the dog was at risk lol
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u/bilbobaggginz 9d ago
Ive watched my cat fuck up a water moccasin. I didn’t get out there in time to split them up but saw the last few hits and the aftermath. The snake has tiny cuts all over it, my cat was unscathed.
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u/MuksyGosky 9d ago
Imagine thinking you're fast and end up getting slapped before you're done opening your mouth
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u/IronToadSilent 9d ago
There's a similar video out there of a sloth taking on a slug, it's 52 min long
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u/darkest_irish_lass 9d ago
Seriously, how many cat subs are there on Reddit?
I'm not complaining, I'm just saying.
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u/pupperoni42 9d ago
How many cat subs are there on Reddit?
N + 1 where N is however many cat subs I'm already subscribed to
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u/crimson2271 9d ago
On a fishing trip several years ago I watched a cat kill a rattle snake... still amazes me.
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u/YesManSky 9d ago
You know someone/thing is much faster when they let you make the 1st move..
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u/Own-Western-1202 9d ago •
I got hands fuck boii! -cat