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What happens if house cats are sized tigers?
If tigers were the size of house cats, they would probably be very similar to a regular house cat—only (like with feral cat breeds and species of wild cats like bobcats), the temperament would be even MORE inclined to those instincts.
Why are house cats smaller than tigers?
Domesticated cats are the smallest member of the Felidae family, which encompasses all cats. Natural selection favored smaller cats, because of the living conditions, where they’d have more success surviving on smaller prey and hiding in smaller shelters.
Are Tigers big house cats?
Tigers are the biggest members of the cat family and are closely related to other big cats, such as snow leopards and lions.
Are house cats the same as tigers?
The cuddly domesticated house cats we love so much today are in fact descendants of lions and tigers, who are successors of early carnivores known as miacids. Animal scientists believe the common tabby markings of the domestic cat indicate lineage of the African wild cat.
While our domestic cats and tigers shared a common ancestor around 10.8 million years ago they in fact share 95.6\% of their DNA!
Are cats as dangerous as tigers if they are the same size?
So the short answer is no, cats would not be as dangerous as tigers even if they were the same size. That doesn’t mean they wouldn’t be dangerous, since cats can do serious damage to people despite their small size, but they would not represent the same threat as a wild animal with the same physical attributes.
Why don’t we domesticate cats like lions and Tigers?
The only reason we succeed in domesticating cats is because cats choose to live with our ancestors since we could offer them food, space, comfort.. if cats were the same size as lions and tigers, we would have never domesticate them since they would need much more food, much more space and they won’t be comfortable in a human house.
What animal is most similar to a tiger?
Felis catus — popularly known as the domestic cat, or just “cat” — is remarkably similar physically to its much larger cousin the tiger, aka panthera tigris.
Why don’t Tigers get along with humans?
That means a cat who was socialized as a kitten is comfortable living with humans and isn’t hostile. Tigers are wild animals, meaning they are not adapted to humans, they don’t enjoy living with humans, they have an adversarial (as opposed to mutually beneficial) relationship with people, and they can never be fully trusted.