Hello everyone, my dear friends! Today I will tell you about who all domestic cats came from, and who is the ancestor of all domestic cats around the world.

This is what the ancestor of a domestic cat looks like. By the way, the wild ancestors of modern cats have been preserved to this day in the deserts and semi-deserts of Central Asia, in the Gobi and Karakum deserts.

Wild cats differ from modern cats with longer paws and a larger and elongated body. The weight of a wild cat is several kilograms more than that of a domestic cat.

Wildcats are more aggressive in order to survive in the wild. Wildcats feed on everything they can catch: mice, rats, lizards, small snakes, shrews, birds.

A wild cat does not like water, but if necessary, it swims normally and even dives. The wild cat was domesticated by humans several thousand years ago. It happened on the territory of modern Mesopotamia, in the interfluve of the Nile and Euphrates rivers.

Wild cats adapt perfectly to life in the desert. They can also live in caves and burrows.