Interestingly, in a poll of zookeepers, these African wildcats still rank as the friendliest among wild cat species today. In the reign of Thutmose III, 3,500 years ago, the city of Bubastis rose ...

If you have a cat, you may have noticed that cats don’t meow at each other. Instead, they meow at you. This is the reason ...

Meow we're talking! Cats 'living their best lives' in new facility at Wildcat Sanctuary. Story by Samantha Fischer • 3mo. E at your heart out, ... Not The Wildcat Sanctuary, though.

Except for a single species of wildcat — the lion — all the rest are solitary, ... In "The Cat’s Meow," Jonathan Losos explores the evolutionary mysteries that gave us the domesticated feline.

But of these, the African wildcat is the one that to this day enters villages and can be found around humans. African wildcats are among the friendliest of feline species; raised gently, they can ...

I explored this question in my book "The Cat's Meow: How Cats Evolved from the Savanna to Your Sofa." An African wildcat doesn’t look so different from a domestic cat. (Image credit: Getty Images) ...

Meow we're talking! Cats 'living their best lives' in new facility at Wildcat Sanctuary More than 50 rescued exotic hybrid cats are now living out their feline fantasies inside the sanctuary's new ...

And so the fact that they meow to us is another feature that evolved during domestication. JOHN DANKOSKY: Maybe you can give us a little short crash course here on cat evolution. I mean, how did we ...

An African wildcat doesn’t look so different from a domestic cat. pum_eva/iStock via Getty Images Plus Based on its size and appearance, I initially presumed it was someone’s pet inexplicably ...