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   Message 56,343 of 57,854   
   Martin Edwards to adhor4146@ugcloud.ca   
   Re: In South America the Inca revered sa   
   14 Apr 19 08:25:40   
   
   From: buzzard554@fastmail.co.uk   
      
   On 4/12/2019 5:38 PM, adhor4146@ugcloud.ca wrote:   
   > On Saturday, May 26, 2007 at 10:46:15 PM UTC-4, IEJ(Norah) wrote:   
   >> That was in Precolumbian days. That's a bit odd since cats, observe not   
   >> lions or tigers, are known in Old World, Africa Europe and Asia, for 5000   
   >> years to have been domesticated (if any cat ever understood that, is an   
   >> other question....)   
   >>   
   >> So how come that the Inca's new of the cat if no one from the Old World   
   >> introduced it in America?   
   >>   
   >> Inger E   
   >   
   As the domestic cat is descended from the African wildcat, how come they   
   had got to South America that long ago?   
      
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