The rise of the domestic cat may have come at a cost to Europe’s native wildcats. Ottoni and Doherty both document a sharp decline in European wildcats starting in the Roman period — centuries ...

Domestic cats introduced from the Near East, and wildcats native to Europe did not mix until the 1960s, despite being exposed to each other for 2,000 years, according to two recent articles.

They’re the size of a large domestic cat (F. catus), but with longer legs. ... The evidence now suggests that European wildcat and African wildcat distribution probably overlapped in the past, ...

European wildcats avoided introduced domestic cats for 2,000 years Domestic cats introduced from the Near East, and wildcats native to Europe did not mix until the 1960s, despite being exposed to ...

The European wildcat ... The oldest known domestic cat burial (a grave 9,500 years old) was found in 2004 on the island of Cyprus, about 43 miles south of mainland Turkey.

European wildcats, thought to be extinct 50 years ago in the Jura mountains, have since recolonized part of their former territory. This resurgence in an area occupied by domestic cats has gone ...

In other European countries, analyses find that interbreeding with domestic felines affects anywhere from 3-21% of wildcat populations. But in Scotland, all of the wild-living cats in study ...

There are only two ways to indisputably identify a wildcat. You can measure the size of its brain — house cats, like other domestic animals, have evolved reductions in the parts of the brain ...

There have been rough shotgun sequences of the domestic cat genome before, ... (Russia), and light 30× sequencing of Sylvester, a European wildcat progenitor of cat domestication. ...

An African wildcat doesn’t look so different from a domestic cat. pum_eva/iStock via Getty Images Plus Based on its size and appearance, I initially presumed it was someone’s pet inexplicably ...

European wildcats, thought to be extinct 50 years ago in the Jura mountains, have since recolonised part of their former territory. This resurgence in an area occupied by domestic cats has gone ...

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