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Mountain lions and lynx are indigenous to North America, neither hunt songbirds. House cats are from the Near East.
by sliverstorm 10y ago
Mountain lions and lynx are indigenous to North America, neither hunt songbirds. House cats are from the Near East.
- JoeAltmaier 10y agoBobcat?
- sliverstorm 10y agoYes, there's those too. Same group as the Lynx. But neither Lynx, Bobcat, nor Mountain Lion are decimating bird populations.
- JoeAltmaier 10y agoHm. Cats come from the Fertile Crescent but that was 10,000 years ago. Since then they've gone everywhere. I wonder when they first came to North America? Was it just hundreds of years ago, or thousands?
- maxerickson 10y agoDomestic cats come from the Fertile Crescent. The animals they were domesticated from have been present in much of Africa, Asia and Europe for a couple million years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildcat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildcat
- sliverstorm 10y agoHousecats likely came with sailing ships as onboard ratters (the same way they have come to many islands). Lynx, lion, etc are much older.