{"id":3813,"date":"2019-11-13T03:39:15","date_gmt":"2019-11-13T11:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/?p=3813"},"modified":"2019-11-13T03:39:15","modified_gmt":"2019-11-13T11:39:15","slug":"wild-and-sometimes-crazy-wednesday-are-you-related-to-your-cat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/?p=3813","title":{"rendered":"Wild (and Sometimes Crazy) Wednesday \u2013 Are You Related to Your Cat?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3814\" src=\"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/catorangebeingheld-e1573644771607-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/catorangebeingheld-e1573644771607-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/catorangebeingheld-e1573644771607-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/catorangebeingheld-e1573644771607-375x500.jpg 375w, https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/catorangebeingheld-e1573644771607.jpg 1512w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/>I enjoy exploring the connection between the big cats and our sweet domestic kitties. I know that the house cat comes from wild cats, but it still blows my mind to realize that Lily and Sophie (as well as your Tabitha, Fluffy, Tommy, and Phoebe-kitties) share 95.6%\u00a0 of their DNA with the tiger. In fact the Siberian tiger is the most closely related to the house cat.<\/p>\n<p>But did you know that you might actually be related to<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3815\" src=\"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/KittenOrange-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/KittenOrange-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/KittenOrange-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/KittenOrange-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/KittenOrange.jpg 2016w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> your cat? A study of DNA provided by an Abyssinian cat showed that cats share approximately 90% of their DNA with humans. Hey, that means we\u2019re fairly closely related to, not only our precious fur-kids, but to tigers, maybe snow leopards, and lions. Don\u2019t get too excited. We\u2019re still more closely related to the chimpanzee\u2014that DNA number at 98.8%.<\/p>\n<p>(This kitten and its sibling are up for adoption.&#8211;Photos by Glori Anibarro)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I enjoy exploring the connection between the big cats and our sweet domestic kitties. I know that the house cat comes from wild cats, but it still blows my mind to realize that Lily and Sophie (as well as your &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/?p=3813\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3813"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3813"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3816,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3813\/revisions\/3816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}