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Interesting Facts: How a Man Tamed a Cat
25.10.2023 20:00
Updated: 13.05.2024 21:22
A large international team of scientists conducted a large-scale study, analyzing the DNA of a variety of cat remains from all areas of the world over 9,000 years: from the Mesolithic to the 20th century.
Who was tamed first, a cat or a dog
Gradually, ancient people began to domesticate wild animals. Man's first domestic animal was the dog.
The dog could protect from enemies, some predatory animals, and helped during the hunt.
How long have cats lived with people
Thousands of years side by side with man.
However, a groundbreaking new study published in the journal Science theorizes that the history and origins of cats as human companions goes back much further, to about 12,000 years ago.
When was the wild cat domesticated
Over the past two decades, it has been established that the Middle Eastern wildcat (Felis silvestris lybica) is the common ancestor of all domestic cats, and that they were first domesticated about 10,000 years ago in the Fertile Crescent (the region of Mesopotamia and the Levant, modern-day Cyprus, Lebanon, Israel , Syria.
Where did the first cat appear
It is believed that the first cats were domesticated in the Middle East - traces of kinship with local indigenous species are still found in modern pets.
From there, approximately 3-4 thousand years ago, they came to Egypt (according to another theory, they were domesticated here again, for the second time).
