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Félicette (French pronunciation:) was a stray Parisian cat that became the first feline launched into space on 18 October 1963 as part of the French space program.She was one of 14 female cats trained for spaceflight.
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]
First cat may refer to: Certain cats associated with national governments: United States presidential pets, which have included cats; Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office in the United Kingdom; Think Think and Ah Tsai, two cats owned by Taiwanese president Tsai Ing-wen; The domestication of the cat; Proailurus, the first member of the cat family
Current taxonomy tends to treat F. silvestris, F. lybica, F. catus, [4] and F. bieti as different species. A 2007 study of feline mitochondrial DNA and microsatellites of approximately 1,000 cats from many different regions (including Africa, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, and the Middle East) showed 5 genetic lineages of the wildcat population. [5]
CC (Copy Cat, or Carbon Cat), the first cloned cat. Dusty the Klepto Kitty (US), notorious for being an expert night cat burglar. [31] Tarmac The Weather Cat seen outside the National Weather Service office in Little Rock, Arkansas. Lewis, a cat who became infamous after being placed under house arrest. Little Nicky, the first commercially ...
Climatic changes to arid conditions that muted variation at about 25.8 Ma coincides with the first appearance of hoglike creodonts and of pocket gophers, and this also is the beginning of the "cat gap" and the "entelodont gap", a period of some 7 million years when there were no nimravids, felids, or entelodonts in North America.
Paddles (2016 – 7 November 2017) was a ginger and white polydactyl cat, [1] owned by New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and her partner Clarke Gayford. Paddles had a profile on Twitter and in politics as "First Cat".
The first cat video on YouTube was uploaded in 2005 by YouTube co-founder Steve Chen, who posted a video of his cat called "Pajamas and Nick Drake". [7] The following year, "Puppy vs Cat" became the first viral cat video; uploaded by a user called Sanchey (a.k.a. Michael Wienzek); [8] as of 2015 it had over 16 million views on YouTube. [7]