| > female cats can become pregnant at 4-6 months old already, and they have on average 16 kittens a year in multiple litters). This totally was not true in my living memory of fifty years. Edit : like this is totally news to me which frightens me knowing that could really mean that we've passed a irreparable inflection point in a number of the most stabilized metabolic endocrine and hormonal management systems that have taken the entirety of history to develop into sustainable life. Is systemic oestrogen poisoning to blame? Or has there been effective speciation as a consequence already, which might demand humane euthanasia? From https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8300725/ : "Estrogens occurring in the environment can negatively affect the organisms, such as animals, through phenomena such as feminization, dysregulation of natural processes related to reproduction[...] Edit : IF what you are saying is true then de facto there's been speciation because there's no way for prior variants of this animal to co exist socially or biologically in any compatible lifespan and neither could the cats I thought existed exist in any shared habitat for reasons of disease and competition. The only possible conclusion is that the very design for life on the planet earth is already proven to be being erased before our very eyes. |