Thursday, June 6, 2013

15 Facts About Cats

For cat lovers, it's good to know the facts below:



1. Adult cat has about 30 teeth in his mouth, while the kitten has 26 teeth. 

2. Cats with white fur and blue eyes are usually born deaf, although other senses so they thrive instead. 

3. Whiskers in cats are very sensitive and can feel the air pressure change even small ones. This capability makes the cat can use it as a guide to an alternative to move in the dark when he can not see.

4. Although cats have 5 fingers on the front foot, they only have 4 fingers on the back foot. However, in some cats can be born with a lot of fingers to 7 even with an extra bone. 

5. By the time a cat 6 months old, the equivalent human age of 10 years. 

6. If you need a UV light to see, just use cat pee, pee because they glowed in the dark. 

7. Do you know, cats (Felis catus silvestrid-), especially the house cat is one of the most powerful predators in the world. This cat is able to kill and or take a few thousand species, big cats beat (such as lions, tigers, and the like) are only able to prey on less than 100 species.

However, because of relatively small size, it is not harmful to humans. But still it is very dangerous if the cat was infected with rabies. 

8. Cats have been associated with human life at least since 3500 years ago. When the ancient Egyptians had used the cat to repel rodents and pests rodents from harvest them.



However, believe it or not, in this world there are only 1% of the cat population in the world including pure or cat race track. The rest is the result of mixing cats of different races or what we call ordinary domestic cats. Because of this, the cat cat races including the most frequently sought after and expensive. 

9. Cats typically weigh between 2.5 to 7 kg and rarely exceeding 10 kg, except for being fed excess. 

10. In captivity, cats can live for 15 to 20 years, with the oldest cat ever known 36-year-old! Feral cats that live in the modern urban environment can only live for 2 years or even less than that. 

11. Cats are very clean animals including. They often take care of themselves by licking their hair. Saliva they have a strong cleaning power, but can trigger allergies in humans. 

12. Cats is a strong animal to sleep. Sleep time varies between 12-16 hours per day, with the average 13-14 hours. But not rare cat who slept for 20 hours in a day.


13. Believe it or not, in the middle ages cats are considered associated with witches and often killed by being burned and thrown from a high place. Some historians believe that the outbreak of the Black Death or bubonic plague spread rapidly in Europe in the 14th century due to the superstition. That is because the number of murders committed cat thereby increasing the population of mice carrying the bubonic plague. 


14. No cat eye reflective layer called the tapetum lucidum, which causes cats' eyes glow at night. The reflective layer can absorb light 6 times more powerful than the human eye, allowing the cat to be able to see in the darkness.

15. In Indonesia, a cat often written with the word "meow". In the English language used in the United States, sounds cats often written with "Meow". In the UK , cat sounds written "Miaow". If Japanese is often written with the word "him".


Rare cat
Here are some types of endangered cats on earth, namely: 

1. Civet cats  are only about 250 cats like ferrets in Malabar, Asia is struggling from extinction

2. Iriomote cat
Iriomotejima Found in the Japanese archipelago, with a number less than 100 individuals.

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