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See pic

>> No.995703

Why is only the fourth picture a motivational? And what is so motivational about it?

>> No.995708

>>995703
Clearly that the cat doesn't give a fuck about stuff being piled on top of it

>> No.995746

>>995703

Despite all of the achievements mankind has made, cats just don't give a fuck and would rather relax. All that 'stuff' being piled atop of it symbolizes a minority amount of achievements; the cat still does not give a fuck.

>> No.995751
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995751

It's been done...

http://www.stuffonmycat.com/

Also, the domestication of cats coincides with a shift to an agrarian lifestyle. They were allowed to hang around humans because they killed the rats that ate the grain stores. Slowly, they became domesticated. I believe that <span class="math">Felis\, lybica[/spoiler] is most closely related wild cat (and Wikipedia says I'm right).

>> No.995769

>>995751 Slowly, they became domesticated.

No, domesticated animals have neotenous features (round ears, curly tails and hair, small jaws...). Cats don't have these, humans do. Cats aren't domesticated, they just figured out they could hang around people. People are domesticated.

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995787

>>995769
OK, I will have an answer for you (which will be "They are neotenous"), but first I'd like to share some interesting google results.

>> No.995803

not sure if serious...

the facial proportions of cats mirror those of human infants, and provoke a similar response

>> No.995835
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995835

Grr... maybe their not neotenous, but they're still domesticated. Domesticated != neoteny, though we do usually see the two occurring together.

So, cats don't exhibit neoteny, but are domesticated.

Conversely, salamanders in dark cave systems also exhibit neoteny, but are not domesticated (this is how we think the loss of pigmentation, reduced eyes, and external gills may happen).

So, the two correlate, but do not imply each other.

So, to put it in the eloquent words of 4chan,
>>995769
>implying that an animal must be neotenous in order to be considered domestic
YOU'RE WRONG AND I'M ANGRY ABOUT THAT FOR NO REASON

>> No.995854

>>995751
I forgot, I learned how to link today:
http://dis.4chan.org/%64erefer.php?url=http://www.stuffonmycat.com/

>> No.995946

But you're all forgetting that cats are retarded.
retarded != not giving a fuck