Hello everyone, I'm a mushroom, and today I'm going to talk to you about the most dangerous animal that lurks around us: cats.
The earliest record of cats living with humans as our partners dates back to about 10,000 years ago in the Fertile Crescent. The Fertile Crescent land area refers to the two river basins in West Asia and North Africa and a series of fertile lands in the vicinity, which are probably the Middle East and Egypt. Among them, the record of artificial cats in ancient Egypt can be traced back to 3600 years ago. This may be the prototype of the first cat slaves. Of course, they may have kept cats at that time to prevent rats and other small animals from stealing food. After all, the cat is a pretty good hunter. So this leads to today's topic: ferocious cats.
The picture may have been misplaced, but you really don't want to be fooled by its cute appearance. Cats are one of the most widely used pets in the world, second only to dogs. But it's very different from a dog. The reason is that domestic cats may have been the first invasive alien species. Hidden beneath its cute exterior is more of a ferocity of nature. We can look at the body structure of cats. The bones of the cat's body have a total of 230 pieces, while humans have only 206 pieces. Among them, there are 30 vertebrae in cats. Also it has a large spacing between the bones which are interspersed with this elastic fibrocartile. This allows cats to hunt more flexibly. His shoulder blades are only connected to the muscles on one side, so the cat's joints can move in all directions. A bunch of structures on cats make it a fluid that humans name in their lives. Cat and Mouse honestly do not deceive me at this point. The same goes for cat paws. The sharpness of cat's claws is also known compared to the small partners who own cats. And the thick flesh pads on its paws also caused him to have almost no sound in motion. Cats have less vision than humans during the day, but at night their vision is seven times that of humans. The reaction speed is 2-4 times that of humans and so on. These are weapons that it evolved to catch other small animals.
Having said all that, there is still no mention of the ferocity of cats. Don't worry, I'll tell you a story about 1894, when a new resident on an uninhabited island in New Zealand called Stephen, David Lyle, and the kitten he brought with him, who had been pregnant. Soon they discovered that there was a bird on the island that had never been spotted. Stephen Island Heterophyll. Discovering new species is a joy. But because there are more and more cats on the island. Around 1925, the bird declared extinction. Of course, there is also a saying that only one year later, by 1895 the bird was extinct.
Unlike dogs, cats can still live happily even without humans because of their strong hunting ability. According to statistics, an abandoned feral cat can kill more than 180 small animals in a year. So if you have a cat because you think it's cute, don't abandon it. Leave some way for the small animals in the wild to survive. Just leave it at home and let it attack the bed, the sofa. And the slaves who feed the cats. In short, it is a sentence that since it is raised, it is not abandoned. Well, I'm going to feed the cat owner.