Cats are now closely related to people's lives as partners and even family members of many people, and they are inseparable from the shovelers.
In fact, as early as many years ago, cats have been domesticated and fed, and there will be cats in china, Egypt and other countries with a long history.
When people talk about the history of cats, they think that the appearance of cats at that time is what cats look like today.
But cats, with ancestors, have an evolutionary history.
Cats belong to the cat subfamily, and it was probably 9.4 million years ago that the cat subfamily officially appeared and was divided into different breeds of cats.
Big cats such as ocelots, lynx cats, and lynx are all "relatives" of cats. Because of its small size, if the cat meets a kind shoveler, it can not live a life of wind and rain, and feel the warmth of the human family.
Its close relatives, on the other hand, run through the mountains, over deserts, through trees, protect themselves and capture food with their flexible bodies and sensitive movements, while having territorial awareness, not social creatures.
If you look closely, it is somewhat similar to the cat at home.
There is a saying that:
The ancestors of the family cats are actually "African wild cats".
The "African wildcat" lives mainly in semi-desert areas and is a species of bobcat.
The first to successfully domesticate African wildcats were the ancient Egyptians.
At that time, there were many wild rats, and most of them appeared in places where humans gathered,
As the natural enemy of mice, cats, it is also useful.
Humans are accustomed to the life of cats around them, and to protect cats, cats gradually adapt to living with humans.
It is no wonder that in Egypt, there is a lot of history associated with cats.
Because of such a harmonious relationship, coupled with the fact that there was no concept of sterilization at that time, cats solved the problem of wild rats for humans, and humans provided a good living environment for African wild cats.
So the African wildcat multiplied for generations, and then later, the "domestic cat", a new species that lives with humans, was born.
There is also a saying that:
There is a creature called the original red panda, which is the ancestor of cats.
The original red panda first appeared 25 million years ago, and its size is similar to that of today's domestic cats.
The original red panda belongs to the relatively early cat family, so it is also called the first cat.
After research, the body structure and skeleton of the original red panda show that it is likely to live in trees.
Therefore, the cat may have inherited the original red panda's tree function, but the cat abandoned the habit of living in the tree and inherited the free running gene of the African wild cat.
Whether the cat's ancestor is an African wildcat or a former red panda, the cat is as cute as ever!