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Title: ... The domestic cat; bird killer, mouser and destroyer of wild life; means of utilizing and controlling it
Identifier: domesticcatbirdk00forbrich (find matches)
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Forbush, Edward Howe, 1858-1929
Subjects: Cats
Publisher: Boston, Wright & Potter printing co. , state printers
Contributing Library: Prelinger Library
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Hebrew scholars, however, beUeve that the animal there referred to is the jackal. Even in Egypt, where the cat appears to have been first tamed and where it became an object of worship, its domestication seems to have been comparatively late. Every- thing points to the probability that the cat was domesticated originally in Africa. African cats are easily tamed, while those of other countries are said to be more savage and do not so readily lend themselves to domestication. The cat appears to have come to the front as a domestic animal about the period of the twelfth dynasty in the "Land of Cush," after the conquest of that country. It seems probable,
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Egyptian hunting cat, Felin maniculata. An ancestor of the domestic cat. then, that this little Cushite was derived from the wild Kaffir cat, Felis caffra, or from Felis maniculata, which is a native of Nubia and the Sudan. Cat mummies from Egypt have been considered to belong to this species, but naturalists differ regarding the identi- fication, and Blainville distinguishes three species among cat mum- mies, Felis caligata, the Egyptian cat (which is identical with F. ma- niculata), F. bubasiis and F. chaus, an Asiatic species. Two of these species are found still, both wild and domesticated, in Africa. Ehrenberg, however, considers all the cat mummies that he examined as remains of the Abyssinian wild cat, F. caligata. Temminck, Pallas and Blyth conclude that the domestic cat, Felis domestica, is a result of the interbreeding of many species, and as there are many small wild cats in various parts of the world, and as Felis domestica breeds freely with Felis catus, the common wild

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