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Compare the first few lines of Kipling's . There's a whisper down the field where the year has shot her yield, And the ricks stand grey to the sun, Singing:--'Over then, come over, for the bee has quit the clover, And your English summer's done.' You have heard the beat of the off-shore wind, And the thresh of the deep-sea rain;
The origin of the English word cat, Old English catt, is thought to be the Late Latin word cattus, which was first used at the beginning of the 6th century. [4] The Late Latin word may be derived from an unidentified African language. [5] The Nubian word kaddîska 'wildcat' and Nobiin kadīs are possible sources or cognates. [6]
The first cats emerged during the Oligocene about , with the appearance of Proailurus and Pseudaelurus. The latter species complex was ancestral to two main lines of felids: the cats in the extant subfamilies and a group of extinct "saber-tooth" felids of the subfamily Machairodontinae , which range from the type genus Machairodus of the late ...
The Siberian is a centuries-old landrace (natural variety) of domestic cat in Russia, [3] and recently developed as a formal breed with standards promulgated the world over since the late-1980s. [4]
The word "kitten" derives from the Middle English word kitoun, which in turn came from the Old French chitoun or cheton. [1] Juvenile big cats are called "cubs" rather than kittens; either term (but usually more commonly "kitten") may be used for the young of smaller wild felids, such as ocelots, caracals, and lynxes.
There is a well learned cat who paces to and fro under the tree, trying to recount stories and songs but who is unable to remember more than the first few lines of each. The 1992 video game Tetris Classic features illustrations depicting scenes from the story. [9] [10]
First appearance: Season one, "The Pilot/The One Where Monica Gets a Roommate". Joey (Matt LeBlanc) says the second line of the series when he teases Monica about her date. He says, "Come on! You ...
This is evidence that cats were being tamed just as humankind was establishing the first settlements in the part of the Middle East known as the Fertile Crescent. [1] The lineage of today's cats stems from about 4500 BC and came from Europe and Southeast Asia according to a recent study. Modern cats stem from two major lines of lineage. [2]