Domestic Cat: Smallest Felidae

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The history of cat domestication

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The domestic cat is one of the smallest members of the family Felidae , the group that includes lions, tigers, jaguars and cougars.

Today 's domestic cats descend from Felis silvestris lybica, a wildcat subspecies found in Africa and the Middle East .

The oldest known burial of a domesticated cat comes from Cyprus , where a human and a cat were buried together 9,500 years ago .

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