Showing posts with label cats. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cats. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 21, 2009

From Gods to Garbage Dwellers

Originally published July 21, 2009 | Global Post | by Theodore May

This two-page article tells of "the steady demise of Cairo’s cats" and what a group of activists (the Egyptian Mau Rescue Organization) is doing to save them and includes some history on the Egyptian mau and the EMRO and a video:





Friday, May 29, 2009

The Evolution of House Cats

Originally published May 18, 2009 for June 2009 issue of Scientific American Magazine | Scientific American Magazine | by Carlos A. Driscoll, Juliet Clutton-Brock, Andrew C. Kitchener and Stephen J. O'Brien

Evidence has shown that Egyptians had fully domesticated the cat 3,600 years ago, but recent findings have lead to a much earlier date of 10,000 years in Fertile Crescent, with the advancement of agriculture.

The following page examines cats in Egyptian history.