Cats
As a point of interest it may be noted that Felis planiceps [Flat-Headed Cat], one of the wild
species of the peninsula, tends to resemble the domestic Malay cat in the matter of tail." The
cat writer HC Brooke, who had an interest in the Malay cat, wrote that F planiceps and the
domestic cat were unlikely to be inter-fertile.
Mr H O Forbes had exhibited a bobtailed Malay cat to the Liverpool Biological Society and
shown the cause of the knotting to be the development of wedge-shaped cartilages between
the tail vertebrae. Forbes attempted to link the Malay bobtails to the bobtailed cats found in
part of Portugal. In the 1920s, Forbes wrote "My remarks referred to the interest I had in
exhibiting the creature's skin from the occurrence in the East of what I had noted as
extremely common in the cats of Portugal when I lived there about 1876. The kink, I was told
was then believed to have become hereditary, from a custom long practised by the Portuguese
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