I adopted my cat Bastian in the summer of 2014, and I have a lot of questions for him. Like, "do you like me?" And, "why do you do that twitchy thing with your back?" And, "what do you think about squirrels?" Unfortunately, I can't interview him, but I can do the next best thing: interview scientists who know a lot about cats.
For this episode of Tiny Matters, I talked to evolutionary biology Jonathan Losos and geneticist Leslie Lyons to get into what makes our domesticated cats the way that they are. Listen if you want to know:
- just how similar are cats to us genetically?
- did cats really domesticate themselves?
- how orange cats get to be that color?
