Cat domestication: From farms to sofas

Years before they conquered the Internet, cats colonized our sofas. But they haven’t spent the last ten thousand years just snoozing. A new study reveals that tamed cats swept through Eurasia and Africa carried by early farmers, ancient mariners and even Vikings. The researchers analysed DNA from over 200 cat remains and found that farmers in the Near East were probably the first people to successfully tame wild cats 9,000 years ago, before a second wave of cat domestication a few thousand years later in ancient Egypt.
Read the original research paper in Nature Ecology & Evolution: dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41559-017-...
Nature news story about the study: www.nature.com/news/how-cats-c...

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In ancient Egypt it was considered a crime punishable with death. Herodotus has written of the annual celebrations for Bubastis, for Bast, that of which 100s of thousands would revel. Feline children eat rats, thus keeping pestilence down. Thank you for the video, it is much appreciated!!!

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Cats are adorable! Couldn't imagine life without them

[@lostword23]

What music was used here? It`s pretty nice.

[@RoseBudpony1]

house cats are my 3rd favorite feline, big cats first, wild cats 2nd..... uh.. cartoon/anime cats?.... i think thats like next to big cats.

[@pikkuadi]

Awesome animation

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band name "human firesides"

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[@corvividart4745]

how do you find all this information? :o

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Cats are the reason I exist! LOL😆

[@jordsupp]

"Only one of these [species] was successfully tamed..." Is that so? Heheheh...

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Yep. Humans.

[@kittywaymo]

love it:)

[@Polaris97]

Awww they already ruled the world since then 😂

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IN SHORT THE NEED TURN OUT IN FORM OF GREED WHICH IS ENDLES.......

[@chairshoe81]

_"do you even know what farm to sofa means?"_

[@FranciscoDiaz-sl3lq]

chairshoe81 use your imagination.

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chairshoe81 do you even wild foods bruh???

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Pentacam

[@JohnComeOnMan]

Is this narrator aiming at the 0 -5 demo?

[@fkhg1]

there are to many cats around there, they are a real problem for the normal wildlife