- The drawings on the cat's nose are unique, just like human's fingerprints.
- The speed of a cat's heartbeat is twice higher than human's (from 110 to 140 beats per minute).
- The smallest breed of cats - Singapore. Males weigh about three kilograms, females - about two. The Rusty-spotted ( Prionailurus rubiginosus) - is the smallest of all cat's species. This species live in India and Sri Lanka. This tiny cats are about fifteen centimeters in length and weight less than 1,4 kilograms, which is twice smaller than a domestic cat.
- The largest cat is not a lion. It's a tiger (Panthera tigris). Males are weighing more than 300kg and grow up to three meters in length, without counting another nearly meter for a tail! A tiger can eat 40 kilograms of meat at once.
- While chasing mice, a cat rescues about 10 tons of grain a year. In England, cats are used to protect the grain stores and other food warehouses, they are officially "hired" by a government. Cats also are protecting from mice all the books and other relics of the British Museum. And in Austria, the cat, who has served on the Protection of warehouses for several years, is given a lifetime pension, which contains milk, meat and bullion.
- There is more than 500 million domestic cats in the World, they are divided into 33 main breeds.
- According to the University of Lyon (France) in Australia every 10 people have 9 cats. On the Asian continent the first place is for Indonesia, there are more than 30 millions cats, and in Europe - France is first. French have in their care about 8 million cats. However, there are countries - such as Peru - where the domestic cat is very uncommon.
- It is very dangerous to hold a kitten or cat by the scruff of the neck. Only cats can do this without harm, and only with their kittens.
- Cats usually have 1-8 kittens in one litter. The average cat can give 2-3 litters per year.
- One female cat in her life may have more than 100 kittens.
- One pair of cats and their offspring in 7 years can produce 420,000 kittens.
- In the skeleton of a cat there are 290 bones, the cat's body consists of 517 muscles.
- Cat's ear rotates on 180 degrees. In each ear of a cat there are 32 muscles, to control the ear they use twelve or more muscles in the same time.
- How old is your cat by human standards?
If your cat is 3 years old, this corresponds to a human 21.
If 8 years, then human - 40.
If - 14, then your cat is 70 human years old.
- The average lifespan of a domestic cat is 15 years, in the same time for the wild cat - from 3 to 5 years.
- Normally cat's body temperature is about 38 degrees. This is slightly higher than a human's.
- People who have pets live longer and are much less prone to stress and heart attacks.
- A cat kills a moving prey, but not necessarily for food. Understanding that hunting is a source of food - is an acquired skill.
- The first Cat Show was held in 1895 at Madison Square Garden in New York.
- It is believed that the white cat seen before the wedding - is a sign of good luck. In America the white cat - is a symbol of good luck, black - bad luck. Russians believe that the black cats are protecting the house from thieves.
- Cats can distinguish colors. Experiments have shown that cats can distinguish between red and green, red and blue, red and gray, green and blue, green and gray, blue and gray, yellow and blue, and yellow and gray!
- Cats do not distinguish small details very well.
- A color of kitten's eyes may vary with age.
- Cats rub around the person to "kill" the "strange" smells. The cat's smell comes from the glands, which are located between the eye and ear and the on base of the tail.
- Cats are the most lazy mammals. They sleep about 16 hours a day. Seven years old cat was awake for only two years of her life!
- Cats, when not sleeping, are spending 30% of the time for their personal hygiene.
- Whiskers are helping the cat to determine whether she can get through the hole or no.
- Cats love highness. If a cat falls, her inner ear, that controls the balance, helps cat to land on her paws.
- The Ancient Egyptians used to shave their eyebrows as a sign of mourning, when losing a favorite cat.
- The adult cat has 32 teeth.
- In Jewish folklore it is believed, that the cat appeared, because Noah was afraid that the rats will eat all the food in the ark. He prayed to God for help. God made the lion to sneeze - and there was a cat!
- Cats can feel the smell 14 times stronger than people!
- In addition to the nose, cats can smell the odors with the help of so-called "Jacobson tube", located behind the front incisors. A cat is using it, when she is fully focused on some particularly interesting smell. She is sucking the air in, slightly raising her upper lip and nose.
- Cats can make about 100 different sounds. To compare - dogs can do only about 10.
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