What affects us affects cats
Domestic cats, with their graceful movements and composed demeanour, often seem unbothered by the soaring summer temperatures that leave humans wilting. This is no accident of nature. Cats are biologically better adapted to withstand heat than their human caregivers — a gift from their evolutionary heritage — but with a few important caveats that …
We are referring to domestic cats. Perhaps wild cats do it as well. Some of them probably do and one species definitely does: the African wildcat, the ancestor of the domestic cat. I have just this minute watched my cat eat some dry cat food and immediately after eating he flicked or briefly shook …
If you read up on what appears to be slightly strange feline behaviour you will probably find different answers. They are all speculative because we don’t know for sure why domestic cats sometimes grab a piece of food from a bowl in their jaws and then deposit that food in the area around the …
Here are 16 succinctly summarised facts about the ancestors of today’s cat. It is all about evolution over eons. Today’s domestic cat is a marvel of this evolutionary process which has taken tens of millions of years. All predator animals come from the same roots including the cat family. The first mammals on the …
