你所不知的喵星人.doc

你所不知的喵星人.doc1 你所不知的喵星人 While it’s no secret some people love cats , felines2 themselves plicated and confusing creatures. One day , they ’ re rubbing up against you , demanding attention , and the next , they deny you the simplest , friendly purr !3 On those days , we question if cats are living with us by choice or simply because we’ re keeping them there. After all , they were once wild animals ! To learn more about how exactly cats went from living in the wild , to ing our pets , to their current celebrity status , we’ re trying to find answers to cat owners ’ most pressing questions about feline Thanks to science , we now know a lot more about the lineage ― and the wild side !― of our furry ( and sometimes grumpy ) 1.“ What makes cats different than other domesticated6 animals ?” While most species were domesticated because of their value to humans ( horses for their labor , cows for their milk , and so on and so forth7 ), you can ’t really put cats to work. So when cats needed shelter and food , th ey essentially took domestication upon 2 “ Unlike barnyard animals and livestock , cats took into account that it was a good idea for them to get along with people ,” says Stephen O’ Brien , chief scientific officer for Genome Bioinformatics at St. Petersburg ( Russia ) State University ’s Theodosius Dobzhansky Center , who has conducted multiple cat-evolu