What do domestic cats originate from? What is the origin of kittens?

In animal taxonomy, cats belong to the phylum Chordates, subphylum Vertebrates, Mammalia, Carnivores, Felines, and the genus Felines. Like other domestic animals, domestic cats are wild cats that have been domesticated and bred by humans for a long time according to different needs due to their natural geographical separation. Asian domestic cats originated from desert cats in India, and European domestic cats originated from African lynxes.

There are also people who believe that the Chinese cat is better than the wild lynx.

Ancient Egypt is the earliest country in the world to domesticate domestic cats, since more than 5000 BC, the Egyptians brought back the black-clawed cat through plunder and war, due to its superb rat catching performance was quickly accepted by humans, by 1500 BC, cats have become very popular, and gradually become human companions. China's cat and mouse hunting began in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and has been widely raised by the people in the Tang and Song dynasties.

Kittens were first found in the desert cats of Egypt in Africa, and there are many legends about cats in history. In ancient Egypt, in order to control the rodent infestation and protect the barn, people at that time domesticated wild cats as rat trappers. Due to the outstanding performance of wild cats, they were revered as sacred beasts by the people of the time.

The ancestors of domestic cats** began the domestication process in ancient Egypt around 2,500 BC, when cats were discovered to catch mice and protect granaries. With the domestication of people, cats have gradually become pet cats in our lives now. However, cats still retain some of their primitive functions and are still semi-domesticated animals, unlike dogs, which are completely domesticated, and cats' tempers are still relatively capricious.

According to recent genetic studies, the true origin of domestic cats may be in the Middle East, and the domestication of domestic cats may have occurred several times in the Middle East.

The study found that domestic cats are most closely related to wild cats from places such as Israel, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia, and that the common ancestors of these domestic cats may have lived in the Fertile Crescent about 10,000 years ago. The origin of domestic cats is very close to the time when humans began to settle the Fertile Crescent and invent agriculture.

It was also slowly domesticated by humans. When he thinks of cats, his skill is to catch mice. This is a solidified understanding of cats, and the cat's "innate ability" is not its fixed attribute.

Its ability to catch rats comes from close contact with humans. Cats were first domesticated as pets by the Egyptians. It wasn't until the late 19th century that a large number of breeds of cats were bred and became popular.

The evolutionary history of cats.

Through fossil research, we know that cats appeared during the Neocene more than 50 million years ago, and that humans had not yet appeared in that ancient period of natural selection and survival of the fittest.

In the face of harsh natural environments and scarce food, the cat's ability to be swift has gradually strengthened in the process of hunting to the death.

The overall morphology of the feline is similar, and the soft spine helps the body to twist to the maximum. Flexibility is greatly increased in the hunting process.

Slender forelimbs and athletic hind limbs help them run, jump, and climb to the maximum. Sharp claws are particularly important during hunting.

Even the tiny tail is not to be underestimated. The long tail helps the feline maintain balance while running.

Various parts of the feline body are intensely threatening. This kept them at the top of the food chain for a long time when the dinosaurs were extinct.

The origin of cats.

The earliest cats appeared about 9.4 million years ago and are the lineage of Asian golden cats produced in Asia. These cats live mainly on the border between China and India.

and China's border with Myanmar and Southeast Asia, among other regions. About 6.7 million years ago, the cats that lived in North America evolved the American golden cat lineage.

The cheetah jaguar and the golden cat belong to this lineage. About 3.4 million years ago, a part of the cat lineage that returned to the Old World broke away from the primitive population.

It was domesticated by humans in Israel and other neighboring countries 10,000 years ago, and helped humans catch rodents and other animals that gnawed on food. This group of Asian feral cats was the ancestor of today's domestic cats.

It was also a wild feline, and when someone got tired, he domesticated it and kept it at home, so that it became a fowl.

So the kitten, it was slowly tamed from a wild cat to our current domestic cat.

Cats, like other trained domestic animals, evolved from wild cats after long-term feeding and domestication by humans. Amazingly, the ancestor of the wild cat, like the ancestor of the dog, was an animal that had been extinct for a long time, and the ancient cat was a small animal that lived in trees. The ancient cat beast lived 40 million to 50 million years ago, and according to archaeological discoveries and scientific speculation, this animal with a large body and tail and short legs is likely to be the common ancestor of the weasel fox and the American wolf.

The first cats were protocats that lived 55 million years ago. And the ancestor of the cat, it may be the African wildcat, the North African or the European wildcat. Felines are high-level hunters who live among the carnivores on the continent.

These sophisticated killers who specialize in hunting herbivores all originated in the late White Asian, 65 million years ago. The ancestor of cats was the first carnivorous mammals, called paleocarnifers. The body is long, four short, with claws on the feet, and 44 strong teeth on the upper and lower foreheads.

The origin of the Chinese cat is probably more than 4,000 years ago.

Cats have been in China since more than 4,000 years ago. In 1990, in a site in Linzi, Shandong, a mandible of an animal was also found in the Neolithic ash pit, with the first premolar tooth, and biologists identified that it also belonged to the remains of domestic cats, and the ends of its teeth were not very sharp, and it had a high degree of domestication.

Scholars from the Institute of Archaeology pointed out that the breeding of cats in China began more than 4,000 years ago, and the reason for this is that in addition to the physical objects such as cat bones and tooth remains unearthed from the Longshan culture, he also analyzed the cultural environment of domesticated cats, and pointed out that the domestication of domestic cats is the product of the development of agricultural production to a certain stage.

Cat's special modification nuclear signs:

The head is round, the face is short, the forelimbs are five fingers, the hindlimbs are four toes, and the toes have sharp and curved claws at the ends, and the claws can be retracted. Nocturnal sex.

It belongs to the feline family, divided into domestic cats and wild cats, and is a relatively wide range of pets in families all over the world.

The ancestors of domestic cats are presumably the desert cats of ancient Egypt and the Persian cats of Persia, which have been domesticated by humans for 3,500 years (but not completely domesticated like dogs). <