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  1. Cats were brought to the British Isles by the Romans, a millennia ago. When the Roman Empire fell, the Romans left but many of their cats remained and have inhabited the British Isles ever since. The Vikings, who were next to raid, even brought some of the furry little creatures back home with them. Little Evils.

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    • Evolution and Adaptation of Felis Catus
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    • Domestication of The Cat

    All cats have evolved as predatory hunting mammals with particularly keen senses of hearing, sight and smell. Anatomical characteristics such as the rounded head and skeletal structure suggest that all the 37 recognised species within the Felidae family evolved from a common ancestor, probably living in Asia around 10-12 million years ago. There ha...

    Co-existence of cats and humans is evident from fossil records from early human settlements, although these have been assumed to be wild cats. The development of true domestication (or perhaps more accurately ‘taming’ of cats) was previously thought to have occurred in Egypt around 3600 years ago. Skulls of cats found in Egyptian cat burial grounds...

    The first evidence of human stores of grain come from Israel about 10,000 years ago, and it is known that the development of grain stores caused an accumulation and rise in the population of the house mouse. It is this rise in the rodent population that is thought to have first attracted wild cats into close proximity with humans and then led to th...

    Genetic analysis has demonstrated that the DNA of modern-day domestic cats throughout the world is almost identical to that of Felis sylvestris lybica, clearly showing that it is this species that gave rise to our domestic cats. The DNA from other small cats (including the European Wildcat (Felis sylvetris) and the Central Asian and Southern Africa...

    Felis catus as a species has thus arisen through wildcats living closely with humans. However, this should not be regarded as ‘domestication’ in the same way that dogs and other animals have been domesticated. In general, cats have not undergone major changes during domestication and their form and behaviour remain very similar to that of their wil...

  2. Cats began to choose to live with people in 4000 BC, in Ancient Egypt. They began to search towns for food, usually rats in Egyptian grain stores, and the relationship between cats and humans began. The Ancient Egyptians welcomed cats into their home, usually to keep snakes away.

  3. All domesticated cats originated from the same ancient kitty, Felis silvestris lybica (or, African Wildcat) which is still found throughout Africa, southwest and central Asia, India, China, and Mongolia. Though the African Wildcat may sound fierce, it actually looks like an average domestic cat – though perhaps a tad bit larger.

  4. The domestic cat originated from Near-Eastern and Egyptian populations of the African wildcat, Felis sylvestris lybica. The family Felidae, to which all living feline species belong, is theorized to have arisen about ten to eleven million years ago and is divided into eight major phylogenetic lineages. The Felis lineage in particular is the ...

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  6. May 24, 2024 · In the last two decades, it has been established that the Near Eastern wildcat ( Felis silvestris lybica) is the common ancestor of all domesticated cats, and that they were first domesticated in...

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