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Mick Harper
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Dogs in the Wild (BBC-1) is engrossing but confusing. Chris Packham tells us there are foxes, wolves and dogs in the mix but the dogs seem especially to be a mixed bag. Here, for example, are a couple of bush dogs
who don't strike me as very doggy. What with the webbed feet and all. Why are the wolves and foxes so wolfish and foxy respectively but not the dogs? We must watch on, in case Saint Chris notices and hazards an explanation. After all, our pet dogs are not exactly set in stone.
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Mick Harper
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Some further support for Megalithic Empire here https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/cat-migration-europe/
| Since then, major advances in paleogenetic analysis have helped illuminate the deep past of one of mankind’s favorite pets. In the last two decades, it has been established that the Near Eastern wildcat (Felis silvestris lybica) is the common ancestor of all domesticated cats, and that they were first domesticated in the Fertile Crescent about 10,000 years ago. |
That's what they've found. When it actually was can maybe be put back a few more thousand years. Then the usual folderol
| It also could be said that cats domesticated themselves; they were attracted to the rodents that feasted off the harvests of the earliest farmers. They chose us, not the other way around. In turn, those early farmers appreciated this welcome form of pest control. So, unlike dogs — which were domesticated earlier, initially for hunting — cats weren’t bred for various specific purposes. They arrived as a “ready-made” symbiotic species, so to speak. |
Did they? I honestly thought that pussy cats aren't found in the wild. I also thought we have no records of wild animals domesticating themselves, so you live and learn.
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