If you live with a feline, you will know they will have admirable capacities that can surprise us on a daily. Therefore, we explain seven unique skills of cats in this MeetClaw blog. Keep reading to find out more!
- Flexibility and elasticity
Cats have great flexibility and elasticity thanks to their bone structure. A healthy adult cat has about 244 bones, almost 40 bones more than the human skeleton. Also, the discs between their vertebrae are thicker than ours, this combination allows cats to develop skills, such as crawling into tight places, aerobatic jumping, and launching distances that exceed five or six times the length of their own body.
- Excellent balance
Cats can walk along the edges of very thin or unstable surfaces, they do so without losing their balance or losing any of the elegance in their gaze. This is possible because they have small channels in their inner ears which are filled with liquids and covered by tiny hairs. This structure, together with their vision and physical resistance allows them to have an excellent balance and acute mobility.
- Silent and stealthy movement
Felines can sneak around like a perfectly trained ninja, the soft pants that cover and protect their paws, combined with the retractable claws, allowing them to walk and run quietly. They are adaptive capacities developed during the evolution of their species. The objective of this ability is to be able to approach their prey and attack them without being noticed.
- Excellent night vision
Cats have privileged night vision and evolutionary traits allowing them to hunt at night. Their ocular structure is different from ours and provides the ability to see better under dim light. On the other hand, their vision in the daytime is not particularly acute. When the cells in their eyes are subjected to intense light, they cannot transmit detailed information to the brain. Therefore, the image is more blurry during the day and very sharp at night for cats.
- Multi-purpose tongues
The tongues of cats have a much rougher texture than dogs or our own, this is because their taste buds have a different structure. Conical mucous membranes known as papillae create a prickly texture, this is why we feel a sandpaper sensation when they lick us. Thanks to these structures, felines use their tongue as if it were a small brush sweeping away impurities and tiny particles from their fur and skin. By doing so, they can stay clean without losing protective oils on their skin. Additionally, the PH of their saliva also helps to keep their body clean and disinfected. They still need to be vaccinated dewormed and brushed to maintain proper height.
- An acute imagination
A cat is able to have fun for hours and hours with a simple cardboard box, they can play, hide, and seek, or simply feel safe for their new shelter thanks to an acute imagination. Humans also share this amazing cat ability during childhood. However, we tend to lose it as we grow older. If you have a box lying around, you can take the opportunity to recover the child in you and have some fun with your feline. Discover in the video we share here six reasons why your cat loves boxes.
- Privileged hearing and smell
Felines have a much higher number of olfactory cells than humans. Additionally, they use their whiskers, eyelashes, and the hairs under their chin as motion sensors, thanks to these traits, they can quickly detect prey females in heat poisonous or decomposing food the territories of other cats and possible predators. Regarding their hearing ability, cats can hear a wide range of frequencies even very high-pitched sounds, they are capable of hearing ultrasound up to 50 000 hertz, while humans can only hear around 20 000 herbs. Also, cats can move their ears to more easily detect where sounds are coming from, like their whiskers, the hairs located on their ear, pin eyes vibrate when they detect movements or soft noises. All this allows them to perceive the presence of prey or a possible threat quickly.
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