ACBS 160D1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: List Of Cat Breeds, Bubonic Plague, Landrace
26 Oct 2016
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Spread from egypt the export of cats from egypt was so strictly prohibited that a branch of the government was formed solely to deal with this issue. Government agents were dispatched to other lands to find and return cats which had been smuggled out. Cats spread to roman empire- armies carried cats along to gaul (france), britain and. In china and other part of east asia- development of distinct landraces. Genetic drift and natural selection to hot and cold climates (shot/long fur, slender/stout bodies) Reinforced by artificial selection the (cid:862)(cid:374)atu(cid:396)al(cid:863) breeds (thai siamese) Goddess of death relation in pagan worship. Decrease in cats, increase in rats and fleas- possibly contributed to bubonic plague of 1348. Cats came to n. america either with columbus or mayflower. One of the natural breeds originated in thailand but very different from those in the west (artificial selection)
