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A New Study Finds That Domestic Cats Traveled the Silk Road to China About 1,400 Years Ago
The modern world’s pet cats are products of a long process of domestication and trade. It began some 10,000 years ago in modern-day Turkey, when Anatolians tamed and befriended Near Eastern wildcats.
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Pet cats arrived in China via the Silk Road 1,400 years ago, ancient DNA study finds
How and when domestic cats arrived in China has been a mystery. A new analysis of cat DNA suggests traders and diplomats likely carried the pets with them along the Silk Road 1,400 years ago.
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Bird Flu Kills 2 Pet Cats in New York City, Officials Say
In recent months, some experts have expressed concern that domestic cats could provide a major avenue for the evolution of the H5N1 virus. The fear is that as H5N1 circulates in cats or other ...
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China’s First Domestic Cats Took the Silk Road 1,400 Years Ago, New Study Finds
Domestic cats first stepped paw in China more than a millennia ago, a new study has found. Their route in? Quite likely, the ...