The cat captured a large number of humans by its round eyes (easy to hunt), soft fur (for warmth), and soft and cute cries (which were actually kittens coddling at their mothers).
I believe that everyone has heard of "cat slave", but never heard of "dog slave". Unlike dogs, when we offer our cat owner good food and drink, he will feel that he is God.
Sucking cats can be described as a long and widely spread love of human beings, and in ancient times, "cat slave" was even an official position.
Cat sucking is an Internet term that refers to the pet cat owner's love for the cat, including kissing and hugging the cat and even can't help but sniff. The word associated with it is the sucking cat physique.
How exactly do cats "tame" humans step by step?
Modern people suck cats and love it if they are gone, hot and cold
Cat slaves have a long history
The original cat slave dates back to the New Kingdom of Egypt 3600 years ago.
In the paintings that have survived at the time, we can see cats sitting under chairs, sometimes wearing collars or nooses, and often eating from bowls, meaning that cats were already members of Egyptian families.
About 2900 years ago, under the influence of Pharaoh Shessa the Cat Slave at that time, the domestic cat was even transformed into a goddess best worshipped by the people, and became the official deity of Egypt.
Bronze statue of Gaia Anderson cat (incarnation of the goddess Best).
Image credit: Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin
It is said that cat killers were sentenced to death, and people even mummified dead cats.
Don't think that only the ancient Egyptians loved to suck cats, in our Ming Dynasty, the court set up a special position of "cat slave", and the ancients even affectionately called the cat "little tanuki slave".
The Jiajing Emperor of the Ming Dynasty was a well-known cat slave in history, in order to raise cats, he also specially founded a special base for raising cats in the palace - the cat room, and each cat was given an official position and nickname.
Male cats are called little squats, female cats are called, and neutered cats are called daddy. The cat room will select the best among the many "palace cats" to dedicate to the emperor, and the emperor will like to stay for himself, and the others will be rewarded to the emperor's relatives.
To this day, there are still many descendants of palace cats living in the Forbidden City
How cats "tame" humans
Is it that the heart is all cute?
About thousands of years ago, cats began to get along with people, in these few thousand years, cats with their own advantages have let human "two-legged beasts" fall under their "pomegranate skirt", so that a large wave of people willingly become their "slaves".
It seems that although dogs and humans have spent 30,000 years together, compared with cats, the Tao is still not enough.
Although cats have now become common pets in daily life, in fact, for a long time in the past, humans and cats did not intersect, until the beginning of the agricultural society, humans built barns to store grain, and recruited - mice.
Mouse: It seems that I am still a "hero"?
Rushing to these spontaneously gathered prey, cats who originally lived in the desert came uninvited and obliged to catch mice for humans.
And this is in line with the needs of human beings. As a result, humans occasionally added meals to these rat exterminators, and the two formed an employment partnership. But don't think that if you feed your cat something to eat, you'll be able to tame them like a dog.
Cats: Naïve humans
Unlike dogs, cats are still preying on instinct and do not need to adapt to human life to develop new behavioral characteristics, so their "ancient wildness" has been preserved.
Although the cat looks soft and cute, it is actually a close relative of the tiger. One study showed that domestic cats had a 95.6 percent DNA resemblance to tigers, meaning that their "wildcat hearts" never disappeared.
In the United States, stray cats and domestic cats allowed to go out kill an average of 3.6 million birds per day, and an average of at least 1.3 billion birds per year. In the UK, researchers estimate that 55 million birds are preyed upon by domestic cats each year.
Therefore, if you have a "cat master" at home, remember to look after it and don't let them eat randomly.
Cats have been afraid of the cold since ancient times
As we mentioned earlier, cats actually come out of the desert and enter people's lives, so will cats from the desert be afraid of cold?
Cats are afraid of the cold, and this nature has been around since ancient times. Cold intolerance is actually a drawback left by the evolution of cats in order to adapt to the environment in the early years.
Ten thousand years ago, in ancient times, the Ice Age had just ended, and countless wildcats were living near the African savannah and desert.
Everyone knows that Africa is very hot, often forty or fifty degrees of weather, not to mention cats, those of us living in Guangdong humans, summer more than thirty degrees of temperature can not stand, cats want to survive that must find a way to dissipate heat for themselves.
So after generations of genetic evolution, cats finally have the ability to quickly dissipate heat. There is a grease film on the surface of their skin, which can resist the invasion of external bacteria into the pores, and can also quickly expel heat outwards, so cats are more afraid of cold than cold and heat.
Kitten: I'm afraid of the cold!
And in different ages, cats have different temperature requirements for the environment.
In particular, juvenile or newborn kittens are more afraid of cold than adult cats, and because the metabolic thermogenicity in kittens is not enough to maintain its body temperature, so their temperature requirements for the environment will be relatively high.
Therefore, if there are kittens in the house, you must keep them warm!
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Source: Museum, Anyang University Museum, Get Your Favor, Science Popularization Guangzhou