where were cats first domesticated
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- It is not known when cats are first domesticated. But by the time of the earliest civilization they have already acquired in the human mind a characteristic which they have never lost-the quality of mystery. In the temples of Egypt cats are sacred animals, and are mummified in their millions.
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Siamese cat history - how much do we know? Pop(ular) cats. From their origins in Siam, through the early history of Siamese cats in the West to their present day fame, their popularity has grown steadily. It probably reached a peak in the 1950s and 1960s (even turning up in the music of the time) but they're still known and loved all over the world.here's no proof that they came from Egypt, though. What history does tell us is that they're one of the oldest recorded cat breeds and that ancestors of today's cats were found in the kingdom of Siam (now Thailand), which is where they got their name from. Egyptian cat goddess, Bastphoto © iStockphoto. Pavel Konovalov.
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- Origin and History. Turkish Van cats are natural breeds, meaning that man played no part in their development. It is believed that these prized domestic cats originated in Eastern Turkey. Cats matching their description are also found in other parts of SW Asia including Iran, Iraq and South West Russia.
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Mummified Kitten Served As Egyptian Offering View full size image. Two thousand years ago, an Egyptian purchased a mummified kitten from a breeder, to offer as a sacrifice to the goddess Bastet, new research suggests. Between about 332 B.C. and 30 B.C. in Egypt, cats were bred near temples specifically to be mummified and used as offerings.
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Cat The domestic cat (Felis catus or Felis silvestris catus) is a small, usually furry, domesticated, and carnivorous mammal.They are often called housecats when kept as indoor pets or simply cats when there is no need to distinguish them from other felids and felines.eral cats are domestic cats that were born in or have reverted to a wild state. They are unfamiliar with and wary of humans and roam freely in urban and rural areas. The numbers of feral cats is not known, but estimates of the US feral population range from 25 to 60 million.
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Cats and Humans: A 12,000-Year-Old Commensal Relationship Reanalysis of this cat has identified the species as Felis chaus, not F. silvestris, however. Late period cats. The first illustration of a cat with a collar appears on an Egyptian tomb in Saqqara, dated to the 5th dynasty (Old Kingdom, ca 2500-2350 BC).
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cat Cats were domestic in Egypt from c.2000 B.C.E., but not a familiar household animal to classical Greeks and Romans. The nine lives have been proverbial since at least 1560s. The Late Latin word also is the source of Old Irish and Gaelic cat, Welsh kath, Breton kaz, Italian gatto, Spanish gato, French chat (12c.).
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- Fossils from 12 million years ago are similar to modern small cats. By 3 million years ago there were a wide variety of cats which populated the whole world except the Arctic, Antarctic, Australia and the inhospitable tundra regions.
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Cat Despite being solitary hunters, cats are a social species and cat communication includes the use of a variety of vocalizations (mewing, purring, trilling, hissing, growling, and grunting), as well as cat pheromones and types of cat-specific body language.he domestic cat was first classified as Felis catus by Carolus Linnaeus in the 10th edition of his Systema Naturae published in 1758. Because of modern phylogenetics, domestic cats are usually regarded as another subspecies of the wildcat, F. silvestris.
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More Animal Symbolism Cats, like dogs, are for the most part domesticated and found wherever humans are. There is a wild tabby-like cat in Scotland, but otherwise, the only other feral cats are mostly those that have reverted from domestication. Anyone who has spent any time around cats knows that they can be very solitary animals.
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Cat The domestic cat (Felis silvestris catus or Felis catus) is a small, typically furry, carnivorous mammal. They are often called house cats when kept as indoor pets or simply cats when there is no need to distinguish them from other felids and felines. They are often valued by humans for companionship and for their ability to hunt vermin.
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A New Origin Story for Dogs They concluded that dogs were domesticated somewhere in Europe or western Siberia, between 18,800 and 32,100 years ago. And genes aside, “the density of fossils from Europe tells us something,” says Wayne. “There are many things that look like dogs, and nothing quite like that in east Asia.”.
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Cat Cats, also called domestic cats (Felis catus), are carnivorous (meat-eating) mammals, of the family Felidae. Cats have been domesticated (tame) for nearly 10,000 years. They are currently the most popular pets in the world. Their origin is probably the African Wildcat Felis silvestris lybica. Cats were probably first kept because they ate mice, and this is still their main 'job' in farms throughout the world.
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- Breeds of Livestock, Department of Animal Science. The goat, along with sheep, were among the earliest domesticated animals. Goat remains have been found at archaeological sites in western Asia, such as Jericho, Choga, Mami, Djeitun and Cayonu, which allows domestication of the goats to be dated at between 6000 and 7000 B.C.
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Cat The domestic cat (Latin: Felis catus) is a small, typically furry, carnivorous mammal. They are often called house cats when kept as indoor pets or simply cats when there is no need to distinguish them from other felids and felines. Cats are often valued by humans for companionship and for their ability to hunt vermin.
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- Whether cats are completely domesticated is questionable, but it is believed that humans have bred cats for specific characteristics for the past 2,000 years.
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The Origin of the Domestic Cat, Revealed by DNA It's plausible that the ancient [domestic cat] lineages were present in the wildcat populations back as far as 70,000 or 100,000 years ago, said study co-author Stephen O'Brien of the National Cancer Institute in Frederick, Maryland.
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- The domestic cat[1][5] (Latin: Felis catus) is a small, typically furry, carnivorous mammal. They are often called house cats when kept as indoor pets or simply cats when there is no need to distinguish them from other felids and felines.[6] Cats are often valued by humans for companionship and for their ability to hunt vermin.
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- ~ History of the Domestic Cat ~. Cats have always been a source of fascination for mankind throughout history. Today cats have become one of the world's most popular pets perfectly suited to the lifestyle of our day. They are beautiful, enigmatic and easy-to-care for pets.xcept for a short period of persecution in the Middle Ages when cats were associated with the devil, by the eighteenth century cats had become popular household pets world wide. The wild cats of today such as Lions and Tigers descended from early carnivores called miacids.
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ABOUT CATS In many parts of the world small wild cats were contemporaries of prehistoric people but humans domesticated dogs, reindeer, sheep and goats before they domesticated the cat. In the 2,600 BC tomb of Ti, there is a picture of a small cat wearing a collar which suggests that cats were in the service of man at that time.
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- Lyons: We say cats adapted themselves to us rather than the other way around. As humans became farmers, we started a civilization. And civilization has grain stores and refuse piles, two things that draw rodents. Cats started coming closer to households to eat the rodents, filling the niche that humans developed. Cats were the first to come close to humans.
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Felidae The first cats emerged during the Oligocene, about 25 million years ago. In prehistoric times, a third subfamily, the Machairodontinae, included the  saber-toothed cats , such as the Smilodon.
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When did the first cat appear on earth? Cats first came with dogs over 65 million years ago. These animals were somewhat but eventually evolution plays a part in what the cat and dogs will be now. Domesticed cats we … re the last in the line over 20 million years ago.
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History of rabbits Wild rabbits are said to have been first domesticated in the 5th Century by the monks of the Champagne Region in France. Monks were almost certainly the first to keep rabbits in cages as a readily available food source, and the first to experiment with selective breeding for traits such as weight or fur colour.
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In the Beginning: The Origins of 9 Cat Breeds 1. Siamese. Yes, they are Siamese even if you don’t please. The precise origins of the breed are somewhat murky, but it’s generally accepted that the breed did originate in Siam. In fact, written records from the Siamese capital of Ayudha mention cats fitting the Siamese’s description as far back as 1350.
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Domestic turkey Although turkey domestication was thought to have occurred in central Mesoamerica at least 2,000 years ago, recent research indicates a distinct domestication event in the Southwestern United States between 200 BC - AD 500.