Shouldn't the cat be showing more fear here? Isn't there a primal instinct that should kick in and make it flee giant predators? Instead it doesn't seem to care at all.

that kitten is barely 2 months old. everything is new and it hasn't seen its momma be terrified of a large bird before. it'll learn after a few months.

the instincts are there; it walks away. but it doesn't have the physical experience to know what a fatal problem that thing is.

>>5000568 (OP)
Domestication erases survival instincts and shrinks the brain. The adult african wildcat is almost never prey unless it loses fighting to defend its kittens from a larger cat, a hyena, or a jackal. Entire populations of adult housecats are easily wiped out by goofy, human-friendly domesticated dogs like greyhounds, huskies, and pointers

Hope this helps

>>5000572
survival instincts that are more likely to lead the cat into attacking the person feeding and cleaning litter boxes than it would protect them. i have a feeling cats have not gotten dumber but rather switched what their intelligence is optimized for. then again, cats are pretty dumb so maybe you're right

>>5000575
That doesn't seem to be a problem for people keeping cheetahs and shit. Domesticated animals are just insanely docile and unafraid so they wouldn't get spooked by the clueless cavemen feeding them

>>5000568 (OP)
cat knows what glass is. probably been in that car a couple of times before

>>5000575
Switching what knowledge is important for survival is absolutely a thing, but the domestic cat has lost 30% of its brain weight compared to its nearest wild relative. They are both dumber in an absolute sense and have what brainpower remains far more focused on integrating with humans because that determines success more than any other factor for a domestic animal.

>>5000589
if cat people were more serious about domestication instead of blindly worshiping the things we could have bred more intelligent cats with enlarged frontal lobes by now

>>5000593
Why though? They are at their most charming when they are little retard goblins.

>>5000568 (OP)
It knows.

>>5000568 (OP)
Most mammals can figure out glass pretty quickly. Birds for some reason seem to have trouble with the concept, and raptors aren't the brightest birds to begin with.

Also, as >>5000571 says, he's babey, he doesn't know what a hawk is.

>>5001141
>Birds for some reason seem to have trouble with the concept
Isn't something to do with their vision? Birds have trouble seeing something as being transparent, they just perceive that nothing is there.

>>5000568 (OP)
Most cats (most animals in general for that matter) don't make it do adulthood in any semi-natural environment.

>>5000568 (OP)
Why? He knows there's glass in the way, the bird is the one stupid enough to think there's nothing there.