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Seems like anyone can publish anything and call it a scientific paper these days. Or was that always the case?

Can’t imagine they’re Michael Phelps fast. Going to get a wack from the oar though. Bad kitty!

Yeah, I get that it's more of a "they are good swimmers who do it voluntarily", as opposed to "someone tossed them in the water and they didn't drown".

Good example with the bears, man.

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Odd question, but does their fur help make them more buoyant?

I thought all animals can swim, even if just a little bit? A mountain lion swimming isn't a surprise

If this ends up not benefiting humans I’m glad we got to save some frogs in the process :)

I also thought that was an odd statement given that most animals can

If it was written by Senku Ishigami, sure.

Considering a published paper just said "chicken" a thousand times I'll believe anything. (By Doug Zongker, University of Washington)

Or that paper proposing to create a room temperature super conductor by lowering the official room temperature by 277 degrees

I need a few more hearts, lungs and livers in me. Black carapace maybe

So we utilise moats with high walls (that they would probably be able to scale without the moat) to keep these animals contained in zoos, will be interesting to see if that changes over time or if this is just an anomaly.

So... 5th Element it is?

Anybody watch WestWorld ?

That reminds me of this movie The Island

I’ve never read something more made up sounding

Westworld here I come!

All cats are good swimmers. They just don't like to be thrown into water or forced to be bathed.

That portrayal is somewhat accurate for in vivo regeneration. What basically happens is that some of the processes during embryogenesis would be retriggered, resulting in a regenerative event. Though there would be a fairly large difference in what it would look like.

In embryogenesis, the bioelectric patterns dictating morphological goals like "the left side of the head goes here" and "build cardiac nerves here" gradually shift as the organism develops. The goal isn't to build an adult from the get go, the goal is to build the next stage on the way to eventual adulthood. This results in a relatively complete body that becomes more complex and larger over time. This is also why morphological goals are stored in volatile bioelectric networks instead of stable formats like DNA. They need to be modified at will both by developmental events and by other cells that need to coordinate with their neighbors.

With artificially induced morphogenesis, particularly in an adult, the bioelectric patterns would be for a complete adult anatomical structure at the very start; no gradual development here. In the case of an arm, for instance, this would result in growth coming from the stump that would begin forming the adult fingers of the hand very early on. It would look somewhat like a tree as all the parts of the limb would generate concurrently towards the adult shape instead of interim shapes like those of a child or adolescent.

Squaxin Island, SW corner of the Puget Sound. Roughly north of Olympia. Wiki says the Island is an uninhabited tribal reservation for the Squaxin people. Probably just a big, unofficial, nature preserve now.

Mr Big Think over here

Wow that was totally amazing!

Naively I had thought that the body could be grown separately, using some samples from the head, then at some point, attached and reanimated. But I’m nearly clueless about this technology.

I’m a fan of the sci-fi series “The Expanse” and there’s a scene where someone who had lost their arm, was having a new one regrown. They actually showed a “baby’s arm” growing out of the stump. (They used a clear cylinder, filled with a liquid, to encapsulate it). Sounds like it was portrayed realistically.

Thank you for your fascinating comment!

Or waking up in your apartment and there's a mountain lion?