The beautiful mother cat Lotto
Humans may have had pet cats for as long as 9,500 years. In 2004, archaeologists in Cyprus found a complete cat skeleton buried in a Stone Age village. Given that Cyprus has no native wildcats, the animal (or perhaps its ancestors) must have been brought to the island by humans all those millennia ago. Jan …
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Every normal being love cats – and authors, musicians, movie stars, composers etc. are no exception. Here are some quotes about cats:
Well… at least they helped to its creation a lot. Let me explain. Did you read Jared Diamond’s “Guns, Germs, and Steel”? It’s a book worth reading. Diamond developed a career in ornithology and ecology, specializing in New Guinea and nearby islands. In the prologue of the book, Diamond recounts how he became intrigued when …
