I'm playing with Shadow with a plastic bottle cap. Sometimes I slide or roll it along the floor, other times I bounce it off of the floor or a wall. In her excitement, she sometimes winds up standing on her back legs, as her front legs grapple with the bottle cap.
This is not the first time she's done this, nor is she the only cat I've ever seen do this, but today it occurs to me, as she takes a few steps on her hind legs to keep her balance, that this behavior might in some way be related to our two-legged stance as human beings. Perhaps cats that can successfully stand on their hind legs are better able to catch prey, or something. Carried to an extreme, this would eventually yield fully bipedal creatures.
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