Fesshole 🧻Didn't realise that house cats could be male until I was at a friend's house and said 'bill' was a strange name for a cat. I was 15. I still cringe thirty years on.
GJ Groothedde 🇪🇺@fesshole Well, in your defence, 'Bill' IS a strange name for a cat.
Tjäder@Eetschrijver @fesshole True, but at least it’s not Bob or Tom…
Daburu Dar@fesshole How did you think an all-female species reproduced?
Katherine W"Singin' the blues
While the lady (house) cats sigh,
'Wild Stray Cat, you're a real gone guy...' "
Richard Hendricks@daburudar @fesshole certain cat variants are almost always female. Perhaps the OP half remembered an adult explanation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tortoiseshell_cat
Also, there are plenty of all female species, that reproduce by cloning. It even happens on occasion with species that have males.
https://ocean.si.edu/ocean-life/sharks-rays/parthenogenesis-when-female-sharks-reproduce-without-mate
proedie@daburudar @fesshole What? Dogs aren’t male cats?!
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Ambulocetus@daburudar @fesshole Somebody mentioned scissors, so I'm assuming they must cut off a piece of cat and grow it into a new cat like a plant
ᴊᴏʟʟʏ ᴍɴᴇᴍᴏɴɪᴄ@daburudar @fesshole Parthenogenesis of course.
@jollymnemonic @fesshole Yes, it's already been mentioned.
I would question whether a parthenogenetic self-cloning species is "all female" or if this is just humans trying to fit nature into boxes that they understand.
I would question whether a parthenogenetic self-cloning species is "all female" or if this is just humans trying to fit nature into boxes that they understand.
Martin
Anders Norén@fesshole
TBF there are Swedish dialects where cats are considered to be females by default. (Standard Swedish has dropped the grammatical male/female genders.)
TBF there are Swedish dialects where cats are considered to be females by default. (Standard Swedish has dropped the grammatical male/female genders.)
vandenberglegs@fesshole yep, all cats are female, all dogs are male. I don't make the rules.
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