Tamed - How cats became pets

How did wildcats became "house" cats ? HINT, there is more than one answer

• Scientist believe Wildcats hunted for early humans and helped them get food.

• Scientist believe humans captured the cats and kept them in cages, keeping them well fed.

• Wild cats became dependent on people through food, through chasing rodents in farm lands. Farmers enjoyed the cats protecting their crops (food) from rodents (mice).

• Scientist believed Wildcats naturally became more nice overtime, and evolved into tamed house cats.

• Wildcats also help people protect their food traveling on ships, by protecting the wheat or grain from being eaten by rodents.

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Scientist discovered that the DNA of all pet cats in the world is identical to the DNA of wild cats from _____ ?

• America

• Australia

• Middle East

• Paris

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What were the benefits of being a house cat compared to a wildcat?

• A house cat was "Healthier"

• A house cat would "Live longer"

• A house cat would have "Given birth to more kittens"

• A house cat gets to watch TV, like Tom and Jerry, and learn more .

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A person who studies the past, often by digging up old objects and examining them.

• Historian

• Archaeologist

• Biologist

• DNA

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African, central Asian, and Middle Eastern Wildcats are friendlier to humans... In these places, Wildcats had a head start in being turned into pets, simply because they were near the worlds earliest farms.

• True

• False

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Wildcats became hunted by early farming civilizations and were feared by many. Humans and Wildcats never really formed a bond until recently, in the past 100 years.

• True

• False

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Explain in several sentences (not 1-2) how cats as a species were saved by humans.

If you forgot, re-read the attached image

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