Mary Allen
Cats fascinate us every day. They keep surprising us and come up with different things every day to amaze us. But how well do you actually know your house cat and his fellow cats? Did You Know These 10 Fascinating Cat Facts?
Even as an experienced cat owner, you don’t always know everything about velvet paws. Or do you know how much time cats sleep over their lifetime? How many different sounds can cats make? And how similar is the feline brain to the human?
1. On average, cats oversleep around two-thirds of their lives. A 12-year-old kitty is only awake for about 4 years in life.
2. A cat’s head always stays at the same height level while hunting. Dogs and humans, on the other hand, move their heads up and down.
3. Did you know that male cats are mostly left-handed and female cats are mostly right-handed? Actually, it should be called left and right foot.
4. Which brain is more human-like—cat or dog? The answer is: that a cat’s brain is more similar to a human’s. Emotions arise in both of them in the same brain regions.
5. Your cat is not really happy about sweets? No wonder cats can’t taste sweets. Science assumes a mutation here, as a result of which the sweet taste receptors have been lost.
6. A cat can make about 100 different sounds. For comparison: A dog only makes about ten noises with barking, growling, and the like.
7. The term “cat” comes from the Old High German “kazza”, but the origin of this has not been handed down with certainty.
8. Cat‘s hearing is more than three times better than human’s. Cats can hear sounds with frequencies of up to 65,000 Hertz, while humans only hear up to 20,000 Hertz.
9 . Look deeply into your kitty’s cat eyes. You will notice that she has vertical pupils there. These are important when it comes to the incidence of light and, in combination with the so-called multifocal lenses, ensure that cats can see pin-sharp during the day and at night.
10. The classic: A cat sits in a tree and won’t come down. True, cats really have trouble getting down from trees. This is due to the curvature of their claws. These are bent in such a way that they cannot climb upside down.