The birman cat is also known as the Sacred Cat of Burma, thanks to its origins as a temple cat in the southeast Asian country now known as Myanmar. The temple cats were believed to hold the souls ...

The beautiful birman cat is distinguished by its captivating sapphire blue eyes and white-gloved paws. Its delightful pointed coloring adds to the allure of this sweet and affectionate cat ...

This story appears in the October 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. For those who’ve long wondered if their cats regard them merely as kibble dispensers, a report in the journal ...

Here are some astonishing facts about them… 1. When night falls in the Disneyland theme park, 200 cats are released to catch all the mice. 2. A group of cats is called a clowder. 3. Cats sweat ...

Burmese and Birman cats have the highest life expectancy after their first year of life (14.4 years), followed by crossbreed cats, which typically live for another 11.9 years, as compared to ...

The animals were likely gifted to some elites, then spread throughout the region Sonja Anderson Daily Correspondent The modern world’s pet cats are products of a long process of domestication ...

“Cats have been so understudied,” said Elinor Karlsson, a geneticist at UMass Chan Medical School and the Broad Institute. “They’re going to remain a black box unless something changes on ...