People love cats so it’s no surprise that people have also studied how cats have come to dominate the human race. Apparently the first people obsessed with cats were the Egyptians who domesticated everything from cheetahs to servals, but they found the greatest success with the African wildcat.
The African wildcat is a friendly animal and is the ancestor of every domestic cat on the planet. Scientists say if you can read a house cat’s body language, you can understand the body language of larger animals like lions and tigers because they’re all just cats (except they don’t use a litter box).
So if you’re fascinated by the history of cats, be sure to learn more about how the Egyptians shaved off their eyebrows to mourn the loss of a cat and how they had the death penalty for anyone who killed a cat.