ACBS 160D1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: House Mouse, Felis, Beni Hasan

• School: University of Arizona
• Department: Animal & Comp Biomed Sciences
• Course: ACBS 160D1
• Professor: H.Steklis, N.Steklis

Document Summary

All domesticated cats (felis catus) derived from feris silverstris lybica, which had wide distribution over north africa, and western asia. 5 genetic clusters over range but only one f. s. lybica is ancestral to domestic cats. 9500 bp pre domestication or fully domesticated? (co-burial with human on cyprus) Probably attracted to human settlements with cultivated grain, that attracted rodents (house mouse- mus domesticus which had moved west from northern india. Cats do(cid:374)"t fit patter of other do(cid:373)esti(cid:272)ate spe(cid:272)ies of (cid:271)ei(cid:374)g pre-adapted for domestication: Cats are solitary hu(cid:374)ter that do(cid:374)"t o(cid:271)ey (cid:272)o(cid:373)(cid:373)a(cid:374)ds, they ha(cid:448)e their o(cid:449)(cid:374) age(cid:374)da. Body shape of kittens intrinsically appeals to human nurturing instinct. Bones at hallan cemi include wild cat (10500 bp) Earliest evidence of domestication shillourokambos on cypris. No cat ancestors on island so cats were brought. Cats in egypt known in egypt by 5700 bp as household pets for hunting rodents and snakes.