PBS Eons: How We Domesticated Cats (Twice)

 

PBS Eons has a new episode and it’s a great one for cat lovers!  It seems that cats have been domesticated twice and this is the story of Felis silvestris lybica.

A 9,500 year old burial in Cyprus represents some of the oldest known evidence of human/cat companionships anywhere in the world. But when did this close relationship between humans and cats start? And how did humans help cats take over the world? 

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