From: buzzard554@fastmail.co.uk   
      
   On 4/14/2019 10:57 AM, Eric Stevens wrote:   
   > On Sun, 14 Apr 2019 08:25:40 +0100, Martin Edwards   
   >  wrote:   
   >   
   >> 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?   
   >   
   > The same way that a lot of plants managed to cross the Atlantic in   
   > pre-Columbian times.   
   >   
   Thanks, but is there any record of how it happened?   
      
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