Friday, June 17, 2011

Interesting facts about cats

1. Cat skeleton consists of 230 bones and bone is 24 more than the person

2. In cats, there are no normal clavicle. Due to this lack of a cat can push through his body through the smallest openings where is the cat's head. You may have seen the cat checks the hole, where she has to get through, trying to hole his head. The average adult cat may crawl through the hole, such as a fence, a width of 10 cm

3. Cat - this is a great acrobat. Its front legs can be rotated in almost any direction and both halves of her body can move in opposite directions!

4. Cats have five toes on front feet, but on the back - only four.

5. The cat's ear is rotated 180 degrees. In each ear muscle in the cat 32 to operate the ear they use twelve or more muscles.

6. Hearing the cat is much more sensitive than humans or dogs. The cat heard within 65 kHz, while a man - in the range of 20 kHz.

7. A cat can hear sounds in the ultrasonic range, and its "ambush" about a mouse burrows makes sense, even if the rodents do not move. Rodents communicate with ultrasound, and the cat overheard these conversations.

8. On head and front paws are cat hairs tactile - they help a cat not to lose orientation in space, and orients the cat does not come into contact with these hairs obstacles, and feeling them at a distance.

9. Relative to the weight of his body cat has the largest eyes of all animals. If the cat was the size of a man the size of her eyes would reach 4-5 cm

10. Most cats are no eyelashes.
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