Warrior Cats/Headscratchers: Difference between revisions

** I think this is meant to be [[Deliberate Values Dissonance]]. Cats are, as mentioned, extremely territorial. Feral cats are known to form small family groups in real life, which is reflected in the Clans, but they see other cats as, first and foremost, competition. Humans don't share the same instinctive territory thing, so while it makes sense to ''us'' to form a big, unified group, it doesn't so much to the cats because that clashes with their basic instincts. How well the authors pulled this off is, obviously, up for debate, but that's my take on it.

*** The structure of a real feral colony is nothing like that of the clans. If genuine feral behavior had anything to do with how they organized their territories, I imagine that borders would be unstable, leaders would have to fight their way to the top, elders and queens would not be looked after, cats would probably live separately...like Bloodclan, basically. The forest clans organize more like tribal ''human'' societies and the characters themselves act human.

** It's just myths. They weren't actually descended from those cats, but it makes for cool stories for elders to tell kits.

** Yeah, but the question remains: how do the Clan cats even know about Lions and Tigers? The first series supposedly takes place in England, other series seem to be either in North America or England. Leopards, tigers, and lions are all either found in Asia of Africa. The books indicate that the clan cats are not very worldly: they are mostly concerned with their immediate environment. So how could they know about Old World big cats that they never encountered, and not know what a cougar or even a ''beaver'' is?