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your housecat, minus ten thousand years of therapy.
means any of the undomesticated feline species, from bobcats to tigers, that never signed the treaty humans and cats quietly agreed on.
from felidae split off roughly 25 million years ago, but the wild-versus-domestic line got drawn around 10,000 years ago when some cats decided grain stores were worth the eye contact with humans; the rest stayed feral by choice.
species countabout 40 wild cat species exist today
smallest wild catrusty-spotted cat weighs less than a bag of sugar
domestic cat dnastill 95.6 percent identical to wildcat ancestors
solitary by defaultmost wild cats hunt and live entirely alone