Many of us keep cats at home and we love our pets, but cats are more mysterious than we think. I offer you a selection of interesting facts about cats that you may not know. Check out…
Cats – this is the only kind of animal, prefer to get food without any effort on their part. According to studies, other – people, rats, dogs, dolphins – given the choice, prefer to still do something to get food. In some ways, cats are completely rational beings, at least when it comes to getting calories. So cats rightly sometimes referred to as “parasites.”
Vision of cats are both better and worse then human. Better – because cats see better in the dark and have a wider angle of peripheral vision.Worse – because they do not distinguish colors like us. For example, the grass seems red to cats.
Scientists do not know exactly how the cat purrs. Most veterinarians believe that the cat purrs vibration of the vocal cords, located deep in the throat. For this laryngeal muscles open and close the passage of air about 25 times per second.
Ability to find their way home cats called “psy-travel.” According to experts, cats determine their location by the corner of sunlight or cats have magnetized cells in the brain that act as a compass.
Cat that lived unnaturally long called Cream Puff: she was born on August 3, 1967-the year and died August 6, 2005 year – a period of her life was 38 years and three days. This exceeds the normal duration of the cat’s life is about three times: males live an average of 12-14 years, females – 13-15 years.
The Embassy of the Netherlands in Moscow , Staff noticed that the two Siamese cats from time to time started meowing and scratching the walls of the building. Their owners finally decided to find out what was wrong, thinking that they will find mice. Instead, they found microphones of Russian spies hidden in the walls. Cats heard the microphones when they were included.
Cats rub against the people not only because of affection, but also to mark territory by the scent glands located around the muzzle. Also the smell of cat isolated area near the tail and paws.
The cat may bounce to a height of 5 times larger than its own growth.
Cat’s brain is biologically closer to human than the brain of a dog. For cats emotion meet the same areas of the brain that human brain do.