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Many of us keep cats at home and love your pet, but cats - being more mysterious than we used to think. I offer you a selection of interesting facts about cats, you may not know. Cats - this is the only animal species, prefer to get food without any effort on their part. According to the research, other - people, rats, dogs, dolphins - when given a choice prefer to still do something for food. In some ways, cats are perfectly rational beings, at least when it comes to getting the calories. So cats rightly sometimes referred to as "parasites».





Seeing the cat is both better and worse than human. Better - because cats see better in the dark and have a wide-angle peripheral vision. Even worse - because they do not distinguish colors like people. For example, the herb seems red cats.



Scientists do not know exactly how a cat purrs. Most veterinarians believe that a cat purrs vibrating vocal cords, located deep in the throat. For this throat muscles open and close the passage of air about 25 times per second.



The ability of cats to find their way home called "psy-travel." According to experts, cats or fix their position by the angle of sunlight, or cats have magnetized cells in the brain that act as a compass.



Cats who lived unnaturally long called creme puff: she was born on 3 August 1967, the year she died August 6, 2005, the year - the period of her life was 38 years and three days. This higher than normal life expectancy feline approximately three times the average live males 12-14 years and females - 13-15 years. Interestingly, the owner creme puff Jake Perry (Jake Perry) was more cat breed Sphynx, born in 1964 and died in 1998 at the age of 34 years and two months - a cat named Grandpa Rex Allen.
Reasons for the cat Perry managed to live so long, is not exactly known, but it never fed them a special cat food sold in shops. Rather, they ate various "natural" foods - bacon, eggs and asparagus and broccoli. In practice, this can be dangerous, because cats need certain nutrients are not always contained in the human diet, for example, cats can go blind if they do not get enough taurine contained in meat, and they need protein and calcium.



The Dutch Embassy in Moscow, the staff noticed that 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 going on, thinking that they would find mice. Instead, they found hidden microphones in the walls of Russian spies. Cats heard microphones when they were included.



Cats rub against the people not only of the affection, but also to mark territory scent glands located around the muzzle. Also, the smell of cat isolated area near the tail and paws.



A cat can jump to a height of 5 times greater than its own growth.



Brain cats biologically closer to human than the brain of a dog. For the emotions cats meet the same brain regions as people.



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