9 facts about the cat's mind, character and habits

Perhaps the love of humanity to cats - something like singular feline magic that makes us serve the furry impudent, who do not want to tear ass on the couch, even to clean up posudu.Esli you consider yourself a "dog lover" read more strictly forbidden, and cat lovers on the other hand, you need to read this site as a possible selection carefully - "cat owner" will find it a lot of curious.





1. Cats varnish much neater than sobakiVmesto to simply draw water language, as does a dog, a cat, when lapping milk or other liquid touches the tip of the tongue to the rough surface and pulls him into the jaws together with the image of the liquid column, while closing his This jaw to prevent moisture pour back.

Cat able to lap at a speed four times a second, each time receiving about 0, 1 mL of liquid - thus, a minute it can drink about 5 tablespoons (24 ml).

2. A little bit about the cat sekseU cats, like the males of many other animals, have a small penis spines. Scientists still can not unequivocally say what function do these growths about 1 mm long, but most agree that the spikes do not allow the penis to slip out of the vagina of the female at the time of ejaculation and in addition serve as an additional source of sexual stimulation for both cats and for the cat.

According to the survey of 1967, cats ovulation begins only after the genital stimulation, so it is likely spines on the penis cats need is to quickly prepare the Lady fertile offspring.

During the formation of spines meet male hormones, so if the cat spayed at an early age, greatly reduced the amount of hormones and spikes or will not grow at all, or their number is not too large.

3. Modern cats often suffer ozhireniemV recent years, the problem of excess weight is increasingly applies not only to individuals but also their furry pets. According to the research of the Association of the prevention of obesity in domestic animals, about 54% of dogs and cats in varying degrees of overweight. This means that among domestic cats around the world about 324 million "fatties».

The most common problems with being overweight in domestic cats start due to lack of motor activity and loving owners which indulging their pets, give them too much food. The usual adult cat requires from 180 to 220 calories a day, and for example, the average cup of cat food contains about 400 calories.





4. Cats are not smarter than dogs ... According to data published in 2010 in the journal «Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences», for the last 60 million years of the dog's brain increased significantly in size, and cats are not observed anything like this.

In 2009, the experiment was conducted, the purpose of which was to put an end to the dispute "cat owner" and "dog lover" who is still smarter - dog or cat? Given that dogs take part in the operations, for example, to rescue people from the rubble, or let's say, the smell can be found in the luggage of the attacker explosive or narcotic substances, and the representatives of the cat family all this done can not (or more likely - just do not want ), it is not surprising that the intelligence of dogs was considered more prominent than in cats.

But if you think about - whether from the big dog crazy enable pushed around? After all, cats at this time of quiet sleep and the most serious problem for them may not be the search for the tourist, who has got an avalanche, and the owner, banning pet sharpen claws on the furniture.

5. ... but still the cat in his razumnyPust dogs more actively interact with people, you should not assume that cats can only eat, sleep and make you regularly change the filler in cat litter. In domestic cats, like their relatives living in the wild, there are all the necessary skills to for example, outsmart prey or deceive the enemy.

In 2010, the staff of the Wildlife Conservation Society managed to shoot hunting Margay Margao, which live in the forests of the Amazon. Wanting to get to dinner one of the smaller monkeys, tamarins, cat quite accurately imitated the cries of the animals, and when some tamarins get closer, ambushed. Only the warning cry of the leader of one of the monkeys rescued from punishment, but it can be assumed that as a result of patient Margao still made his own, or went to look for another, less capricious production.

6. Cats live 10 th minutamiKoshki able to remember any obstacle in their environment, only about 10 minutes - a conclusion was made by experts on the basis of a study conducted in the year 2007.

During the experiment, scientists have created artificial barriers that fluffy subjects had to be overcome. It turns out that if you stop a cat after she forelegs stepped over the obstacle and did not give her to continue the path for 10 minutes, the animal forgets that it is necessary to cross the barrier and hind legs too, although if you stop it for a short while, the barrier will be "taken" almost immediately.

Visual memory cats is much shorter muscle - if you divert your pet from the obstacle before it begins to overcome it, the cat forgets unsolved problem after a few seconds.





7. Cats run vamiEtot was confirmed without exception, owners of cats - pets are not just meow and purr, and thus try to establish contact with the owner. In the process of evolution and living side by side with these people cry Crafty developed a special tone that a person perceives as unbearably shrill and nasty. Of course, most cats enjoy this method of training people when they want to get something edible and usually reach the desired result.

8. Cat parasites can turn you into a neurotic and ubitKoshki are not only able to control people, and infect them with parasites that have a direct impact on the human personality. Cats microorganisms of the species Toxoplasma gondii is transmitted by rats and mice, which are under the influence of the parasite behave very foolishly themselves are looking for places where they can encounter with cats. If furry pet has managed to eat an infected mouse will germs and certain of its owner, which is fraught with the development of toxoplasmosis - a disease that can significantly change a person's behavior.

A study conducted in 2006, the year found that after infection Toxoplasma gondii in humans increases the level of anxiety, slowed reactions, neurotic traits, but for a person with a weak immune toxoplasmosis may even be fatal.

9. In our time, there is a "feline population explosion" They are all the consequences of increasing the mean annual temperature for cat lovers is the most joyous of the fact that the increase in the duration of periods of heat automatically extends the cats breeding season, which means that the kittens will be born with the time any more. Unfortunately, many of them at risk of being stray, as a sharp increase in the number of those wishing to make a cat is not observed.



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