Interesting Facts About Cats! - By: Crystal Chan

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All cats are born blind. The ability to see comes
during the first pair of weeks after birth!

Cats have fundamental nonfunctional clavicles
that allow them to force themselves through tight
places and helps them in their balance and stride!

Cats often have a third eyelid that is not
generally visible to us. If you are attending it
more often - the cat may be ill!

Cat sight is similar to humans in daytime, but
they can see six times better than us in dim
light - owing to larger pupils and the power to
collect light at the back of the eye owing to a
reflective retinal surface!
Field of vision in cats is slightly compromised
for a more binocular vision, that allows them
greater depth sensing and ability to judge their
prey's position more accurately for pouncing upon
them in high-velocity pursuits!

Cats' sense of odour is fourteen times stronger
than ours - this means they can smell the odour
in the litter box much earlier than us!

Cats' hearing is also very good. They are able to
hear sounds of higher pitch than us and dogs.
Thirty two individual muscles in their ears allow
them to nail the exact position of a source of
sound!

The individual aligning of whiskers is unique to
all cats - they are like finger prints. Whiskers
also allow cats to feel their way in utmost dark
and since their span, when fully put up, is
nearly equal to cats' body width - it allows cats
to judge whether a space or passage is too narrow
for them! Whiskers also are usually suggestive of
cat behavior. Put up, forward pointing whiskers
show that the cat is excited, animated. Whereas
laid back whiskers are often seen in resting,
defensive conditions!

Cats have sharp pointed teeth that are built for
killing prey by suffocation/severing of spine. A
cat's teeth are its greatest asset in the wild.
Corresponding body size, the elusive Clouded
Leopard has the longest canines in the family
felidae, whereas the Jaguar has the strongest
jaws - I have seen it bite through the shell of
turtles in documentaries!

Cats have more spines than us since they also
have spines in their tail. Next time you see a
kid pulling a cat's tail - stop him - since it
hurts. Their vertebrae are also more generally
connected to each other than ours, allowing them
great flexibility!

Flexibility of the spine is foregrounded in the
Cheetah - the fastest land mammals. With big
adrenals, flexible spine and a rudder-like tail,
Cheetah can out pace everything on African
savanna!

Tiger is the largest feline on earth. An
adult Siberian tiger may weigh up to eight
hundred pounds and is one of the top predators on
earth. Tigers are excellent swimmers and are in
fact the only cat who seem to enjoy stepping in
water (the Jaguar in Americas often go into water
to hunt baby alligators and anacondas)!

Lion is the only cat that lives in groups, called
prides. The only social cat, family life gives
lions adjoin over other felids by virtue of their
united hunting!

Leopards are extremely secretive and are perhaps
the best tree climbers and individual hunters
amongst big cats. Black leopards are called
panthers!

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