The Many Kinds of Cats, Both Wild and Domesticated

A few months ago, MinuteEarth gave us a video about all the different kinds of dogs, and as you would expect, they were inundated with requests to do the same for cats. So we get the whole feline family tree, going back to Proailurus, the first cat, which lived around 30 million years ago. 

From Proailurus, we got all the other cats, from extinct saber-toothed tigers to exotic big cats to domestic kitties. The cats that still live in the wild come in more shapes, sizes, and species than you know. Even the familiar wild cats are not as closely related as you might think. Domestic cats are pretty much all the same species today, although some of the more exotic breeds are deliberate hybrids. Even so, domestic cats come in different breeds the same way dogs do, and they each have their own distinct charms. The vast majority, however, are just generic domestic cats, which are all lovable. -via Geeks Are Sexy 


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