Download I History Of Cats Gif. The cat has been worshiped, adored, loathed, and persecuted by humans throughout time. Wild cats are now known to have lived among the people of mesopotamia over 100,000 years ago and to have been domesticated there.
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Domestic cats can be traced back to wild ancestors who lived in the fertile crescent of mesopotamia between egypt and the tigris and euphrates rivers. It is the only domesticated species in the family felidae and is often referred to as the domestic cat to distinguish it from the wild. Cat history and the evolution of the cat dates back about 200 million years to when their earliest ancestors evolved from reptiles.
Understanding cats' place in history and human evolution reveals how very recently domestic cats came indoors and how millions of this species—feral cats—continue to live healthy lives outdoors today, as all domestic cats are biologically adapted to do.
If you owned a cat in the past 20 years, odds are you've used clumping litter. To understand cats' place in todays society, it is important to know how the relationship between cats and humans began. Start date jan 23, 2016. The cat (felis catus) is a domestic species of small carnivorous mammal.
