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Every member of the cat family from the noble lion, to the tiny black-footed cat, can trace its ancestry to a medium sized cat like animal, Pseudaelurus. This cat roamed central Asia 11 million years ago. They have many common anatomical features, such as the rounded head and skeletal structure, still in evidence today. Pseudaelurus eventually became extinct, but not before unusually low sea levels had allowed it to migrate to all parts of the world except those places cut off, namely Australia, the Arctic and Antarctic. The rise and fall of sea levels over many millennia, helped create through migration and isolation, a number of distinct species. By 3 million years ago there was a wide variety of cats populating most of the world. This included the African Wild Cat (Felis sylvestris lybica).All cats have evolved as predatory hunting animals with keen senses of hearing sight and smell. The cat family is one of the most highly developed carnivorous hunters of all mammalian species. With the exceptions of lions, which live in groups, all other cats have developed as solitary animals with the ability to fend for themselves. The widespread migration of ancestral cats was probably made easier by their natural instinct to disperse and find their own territory, along with the need to follow the species they preyed upon. Their variety of coat colours enabled them to be camouflaged in many different locations.
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Adaptation and “domestication” of Felis catusThe co-existence of cats and humans is evident from fossil records from early human settlements. However, these have been assumed to be wild cats. The development of true domestication, or perhaps more accurately “taming” of cats is now thought to have happened as long ago as 10,000 years ago in the Middle East. Some 9500 years ago, a cat was found buried with its human owner in a grave in Cyprus. It is assumed that domestication started earlier than this as there were no native cats on the island. Skulls of cats found in Egypt around 3600 years ago, in cat burial grounds, belonged to the African Wild Cat. It is this cat living in Asia and North Africa which is thought to be the main ancestor of today’s domestic cat.