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04-11-2018, 07:31 AM | #12 |
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Prettier rocks? Differently flavored fresh water fish? The ability to float really big rocks to a spot they fall on your hated neighbor's corral?
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04-11-2018, 10:41 AM | #13 |
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Food. If he has any sort of goals, not having to seek out food is more time to pursue them.
For the humans, giving him more free time is also giving him more time to work for them.
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04-11-2018, 11:39 AM | #14 | |
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Maybe the mechanism is different, but I'm not at all sure cats can't enjoy sweet tastes at all.
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04-11-2018, 12:58 PM | #15 |
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I was doubtful initially too. But they literally don't have a functional gene for the sweet receptors. I wonder which came first; their lack of sweet tasting or their hypercarnivore diet.
Interestingly, giant pandas lost the ability to taste savory/umami. I wonder the same about them being of the carnivora order but losing the ability to taste that mostly meat specific flavor. When I think of chocolate, I think sweet treat... but obviously moles exist that aren't sweet at all, so my preconceptions are not correct for everyone that likes chocolate, for example. Also quite a few people will eat dirt and literal non-foods, so it shouldn't be inconceivable for some cats to eat weird things.
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Boats that act as reverse submarines for them to bombard enemy octo-cities. Plastic items are probably common in modern post-apoc settings. But while there's lots of pollution in the oceans, most of it has been broken down into small "useless" objects, I think.
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There's a scene in The Sword in the Stone where Wart is turned into a bird and eats a mouse or something... stating that it tastes fruity. Humans associate certain flavors positively and negatively... animals probably do the same. Cats probably have their equivalent of "oh, candy!" even if it tastes nothing like candy to a human. So, the trick would be discovering what's "oh, candy" for an octopus.... |
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04-11-2018, 05:45 PM | #18 | |
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What sort of candy was it? Catnip is a member of the mint family.
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04-11-2018, 07:11 PM | #19 |
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Quick googling leads to studies showing rather marked differences in what does and does not taste bitter to cats. Saccharine doesn't taste bitter to them, not sweet either, but not bitter like it does to us.
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I don't recall. It was sweet-honey-mustard, I do remember that.
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