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The winged cat — a feline with wings like a bird , bat or other flying creature — is a theme in artwork and legend going back to prehistory , especially mythological depictions of big cats with eagle wings in Eurasia and North Africa. Belief in domestic cats with wings persists to the present day as an urban legend. Sightings of cats with supposed wings are easily explained by medical conditions that can result in matted hair, loose skin, or supernumerary limbs on or near the shoulders, that flap about in a wing-like manner as the cat runs.

Pantherines with wings, especially winged lions , are a common theme in ancient religious and mythological art of the Sumerians and other Mesopotamians , Akkadians , Persians , and Scythians , and other peoples with whom they came into contact and shared ideas in the Middle East , Near East , and Europe. These sometimes also feature a winged cat's body with a bird's head e. It is hardly a unique, biologically impossible, artistic conceit in works of Classical Antiquity ; Greco-Roman , Egytian , and other works also often depicted winged horses Pegasus , animal-headed human figures the Minotaur , and many Egyptian deities like the cat-headed Bastet and Sekhmet , half-human and half-horse figures the centaur , and other mythological part-cat beasts, such as the Chimera.

Art of this sort featuring felids dates back to the Upper Paleolithic era, to 40, BCE , though it is uncertain when winged felines in particular were first represented. Aq Bars is a legendary winged snow leopard , a symbol of ancient Turkic and Bulgar origin, and going back to an uncertain period in pre-literate history. Emblematic use of snow leopards with wings continues in the modern coat of arms of Tatarstan , Russian Federation; Samarqand , Uzbekistan; and Astana , Kazakhstan. Such fanciful creatures appear twice in the context of the Judeo-Christian bible. In the Book of Daniel of the Hebrew Bible and Christian Old Testament , the first beast in the vision of the beasts from the sea chapter 7, dating to around the 2nd century BC resembled a winged lion.

The probably unrelated Lion of Saint Mark is the winged heraldic symbol of Mark the Evangelist of the New Testament 1st century AD , and features prominently in Christian art from the early church to the present day. In later, medieval Christianity , both cats of the domestic sort and bats were associated with the Devil , and demons were sometimes depicted as bat-winged cats.

For example, an Athanasius Kircher engraving from depicted a demonic creature with a cat's head, bat's wings and human torso. There are three different causes of wing-like appendages. The most common is long-haired cats having matted fur that can form if it is not properly groomed. Less commonly, mats can occur in shorthaired cats if molted fur adheres to growing fur. When the cat runs, the mats flap up and down and give the impression of wings.

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These can be very uncomfortable for the cat and can harbour dirt, feces and parasites. Extensive mats must be shaved or clipped by a veterinarian. This explanation is ultimately untenable as the sole solution to the winged cat phenomenon, for several reasons. Many notable examples of winged cats feature shorthaired specimens. The occurrence of mats in longhaired cats is easily recognisable by experienced cat owners and breeders, but not recognisable to novices.

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Matted fur is not considered notable and rarely reported, except by those unfamiliar with the condition. Although mats can occur all over a longhaired cat's body, to novice eyes, they are most noticeable on the flanks when the cat is in motion. The second explanation of reports of winged cats is a skin condition called feline cutaneous asthenia , which is related to Ehlers—Danlos syndrome elastic skin in humans.

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