Talk:African wildcat
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Cat in the photo[edit]
I know this seems trivial, but the cat in the article's photo was from the Johannesburg Zoo in South Africa and its probable the photo is actually of the local Felis silvestris cafra (Sub-Saharan wildcat), which was separated from lybica quite recently (hence confusion of terms). Unless the cat in the zoo is specifically an African wildcat (Felis silvestris lybica), which is poor wording, since wildcats south of the Sahara were considered the same as the Near Eastern wildcats.
Schvass (talk) 20:02, 29 August 2014 (UTC)
- I wouldn't say it's trivial. It's factual. I did some research into the name change and why it took place and the Felis silvestris lybica supposedly split off from the European counterpart wildcat about 173,000 years ago, and from the Asian subspecies F. s. ornata and the Southern African F. s. cafra about 131,000 years ago. Roughly 160,000 years later, so 10,000 years ago, the domestication of some of these took place int he Middel East, but I can't find where in the middle east. The bottom line is that there's a definite change that makes the picture change not only mandatory, but not trivial at all. It's like putting a polar bear in the picture of a black bear. Thanks for pointing it out. Here's an article I found that, if expanded on, is enlightening. [1] — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chewbakadog (talk • contribs) 21:09, 29 August 2014 (UTC)
Or this article can just use a domestic cat image, as they are closer to F. s. lybica than F. s. cafra, 9,000-10,000 years ago compared to 131,000 years ago. Editor abcdef (talk) 07:49, 16 March 2015 (UTC)