Jerry Moore

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223 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jan 2026 last heard 2 Feb

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Something You Should Know · The Human Need to Matter & The Enduring Appeal of Cats · 5 Jan 2026 podcast

I've seen them hiking in the Sierra Nevada.

But they tend to be pretty isolated animals.

They don't really pose any kind of threat to humans the way that a mountain lion or something like that might.

But so many of us, especially here in California, but also in places like Colorado and elsewhere,

You know, we live in what we think of as suburbs or cities, but we're not that far away from either actual wild lands or kind of mixed strategy uses.

So, for example, one of the places where we see a lot of not just bobcats, but mountain lions and animals like that,

are on the edges of large golf courses that are adjacent to mountain systems, whether it's in California or in Colorado, because those golf courses have water and they have grass that attract deer that attract mountain lions.

The similarities are striking enough that you would have no problem recognizing them.

But beginning in the late 19th century, early 20th century, cat fanciers here in the United States and in Europe began to selectively breed cats so that you would have different varieties of cats.

Those differences, whether it's a Siamese or a Maine Coon,

are largely only visible in terms of fur and coloration.

They're not really noticeable in terms of their skeletal remains.

And so the basic form of the animals was not really selected for as much as their appearance was.

I think that cats fall into this category of what we think of as charismatic species.

And this is a term that comes out of wildlife biology for animals, and in some cases plants, that seem to really attract human attention.

And so these are the animals that show up on your advertisements for World Wildlife Fund or for your local zoos and things like that.

It turns out that they don't put tapeworms up there as their icons.

They put up animals that are charismatic.

And there's been a lot of research on this by advertisers and others, and we know what the top 20 charismatic species are.

And of the top 10, I think it's four are different varieties of cats, lions, tigers, cheetahs, leopards, et cetera.

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