Cats are tender and clever pets. They differ in surprising abilities, take the worthy place in the history and can carry out real tricks at the expense of the unusual structure of the body. There is a set of the unusual facts about these animals thanks to whom cats cause even more love and respect.
- The sweet taste is unfamiliar to cats. Receptors of these animals do not allow them to feel all width of shades. Scientists assume that business consists in somebody a defective gene here.
- Cats rub about people not to show caress and to erase from them a foreign smell. Thus representatives of the cat family mark owners and others nice to them people. Cats wash when they want to remove human from the wool began to smell.
- Cats sleep till 16 o'clock in day. Their dream can often be interrupted and sometimes reminds rather a sleepiness, than deep falling into Morpheus's kingdom.
- The largest cat's breed - a Maine Coon. Length of a body of their representatives can reach 1 mestr, and weight is capable to vary from 6 to 12 kg.
- The print of a cat's nose is so unique, as well as a trace of a human finger. There are no two cats with identical patterns on noses.
- Cats perfectly are guided in space and are capable to come back home even from quite long distance.
- Not all cats possess a tail. For example, representatives of breed manks lost tails during evolution.
- Cats were made pets about 4000 years ago. At first they were used as assistants in hunting.
- Cats are obliged by the sensitive hearing to 32 muscles in an ear. Range of frequency which cats are capable to hear is much wider, than at the person. Ears of cats can turn by 180 degrees including independently of each other.
- Not all representatives of this clan, and only 3/4 react to the well-known cat's mint.
- Cats are capable to gather speed to 30 km/h.
- The cat by nickname Stubbs within 15 years was Toklitna's mayor, the State of Alaska.
- Existence in the house of cats is capable to reduce stress level at owners and to reduce risk of a stroke or heart attack by a third.
- Cats mew only for engagement with people. They are capable to reproduce to 100 various sounds.
- Despite belief of some people that cats are fans of milk many representatives of this look suffer from intolerance of lactose. Therefore this product needs to be given to cats carefully.
- It is interesting that cats usually are right-handed persons, and cats - lefthanders.
- In Ancient Rome it was forbidden to kill cats. These animals exterminated rats, controlling the number of dangerous wreckers.
- Cats are excellent acrobats. They can can jump on height, exceeding their growth by 6 times.
- Cats can sweat. Excess liquid at them comes out through small pillows on pads.
- For cats their very important mustache. With their help they check food temperature before to try it, and estimate whether can fit into pass or creep in a hole.
- Ancient Egyptians in case of the death of the domestic cat shaved off to themselves eyebrows as a sign of grief.
- Men who love cats differ in higher sensitivity and more often are are happy in love.
- In the afternoon of a cat see worse, than in the dark. At night the cat needs 7 times less light, than to the person.
- Recorded maximum okot - 19 kittens in one dung.