| All cats are born blind. The ability to see comes during | | | | animated. Whereas laid back whiskers are often seen |
| the first couple of weeks after birth! Cats have | | | | in resting, defensive conditions! |
| rudimentary nonfunctional collar bones that allow | | | | Cats have sharp pointed teeth that are built for killing |
| them to squeeze themselves through tight spaces | | | | prey by suffocation/severing of spine. A cat's teeth |
| and helps them in their balance and stride! Cats often | | | | are its greatest asset in the wild. In proportion to |
| have a third eyelid that is not normally visible to us. If | | | | body size, the elusive Clouded Leopard has the |
| you are seeing it more often - the cat may be ill! | | | | longest canines in the family felidae, whereas the |
| Cat vision is similar to humans in daylight, but they | | | | Jaguar has the strongest jaws - I have seen it bite |
| can see six times better than us in dim light - owing | | | | through the shell of turtles in documentaries! Cats |
| to larger pupils and the ability to gather light at the | | | | have more spines than us since they also have spines |
| back of the eye owing to a reflective retinal surface! | | | | in their tail. Next time you see a kid pulling a cat's tail - |
| Field of vision in cats is slightly compromised for a | | | | stop him - since it hurts. Their vertebrae are also |
| more binocular vision, that grants them greater depth | | | | more loosely connected to each other than ours, |
| perception and ability to judge their prey's position | | | | allowing them great flexibility! |
| more precisely for pouncing upon them in high speed | | | | Flexibility of the spine is highlighted in the Cheetah - |
| pursuits! | | | | the fastest land mammals. With big adrenals, flexible |
| Cats' sense of smell is fourteen times stronger than | | | | spine and a rudder-like tail, Cheetah can outpace |
| ours - this means they can smell the odour in the | | | | everything on African savanna! Tiger is the largest |
| litter box much earlier than us! Cats' hearing is also | | | | feline on earth. An adult Siberian tiger may weigh up |
| very good. They are able to hear sounds of higher | | | | to eight hundred pounds and is one of the top |
| pitch than us and dogs. Thirty two individual muscles | | | | predators on earth. Tigers are excellent swimmers |
| in their ears allow them to pinpoint the exact location | | | | and are in fact the only cat who seem to enjoy |
| of a source of sound! | | | | stepping in water (the Jaguar in Americas frequently |
| The individual positioning of whiskers is unique to all | | | | go into water to hunt baby alligators and anacondas)! |
| cats - they are like finger prints. Whiskers also allow | | | | Lion is the only cat that lives in groups, called prides. |
| cats to feel their way in extreme dark and since their | | | | The only social cat, family life gives lions edge over |
| span, when fully erect, is nearly equal to cats' body | | | | other felids by virtue of their cooperative hunting! |
| width - it allows cats to judge whether a space or | | | | Leopards are highly secretive and are perhaps the |
| passage is too narrow for them! Whiskers also are | | | | best tree climbers and individual hunters amongst big |
| usually indicative of cat behavior. Erect, forward | | | | cats. |
| pointing whiskers indicate that the cat is excited, | | | | |