By Mongabay.com Domestic cats are hugely popular as pets, yet little is known about their ancestor, the Afro-Asiatic wildcat.

Domestic cats, wild bobcats and pumas that live in the same area share the same diseases. And domestic cats may bring them into human homes, according to results of a study of what happens when ...

“If wild cats share with domestic cats the ability to differentiate human voices, this would suggest that this ability is not dependent on domestication or human rearing.” Deciding to determine, once ...

Ask Smithsonian: Are Cats Domesticated? There is little genetic difference between a tabby and a wild cat, so scientists think the house cat is only domestic when it wants to be ...

Natural infection of parvovirus in wild fishing cats (Prionailurus viverrinus) reveals extant viral localization in kidneys. PLOS ONE, 16 (3), e0247266. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0247266 ...

Once a cat is an F-4 — that is, has a great-great-grandparent as its closest wild relative — it can compete in the show ring and is considered fully domestic.

Cats are closer genetically to lions than dogs are to wolves. — -- The family cat may sit on your lap for hours, purring in domestic bliss as it savors human companionship, but underneath ...

The discovery that as few as 13 genes may separate domestic cats from their wild ancestors was a “genuinely important” advance, according to John Bradshaw, an anthrozoologist at the University ...

Wild birds are dying by the millions in Wisconsin and other states. One of the reasons is that cats, both wild and domesticated, are killing them. But a proposal to allow residents to shoot stray ...

The study of brain sizes of domestic cats compared to their wild counterparts goes back several decades. However, to determine if the pattern still holds true, researchers replicated the studies ...