We need a word for all the kitty-prints that are all over my windshield because the cats like to lie on my hood when the car is still warm. - Megan Coughlin
When I play with my cat, how do I know that she is not passing time with me rather than I with her? - Montaigne
You can visualize a hundred cats. Beyond that, you can't. Two hundred, five hundred, it all looks the same. - Jack Wright (of Kingston, Ontario, the Guinness Book record holder for the owner of the most cats at one time [689])
You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat. - Albert Einstein, when asked to describe radio
All cats are associates of the ancestor 'Felidea'. Interestingly enough, the cat family divided from the other animals at least forty million years previous, which makes cats one of the most previous mammalian line of descent. Cats sustain specific features which are interesting to the cat family group.
felines are consummate meat eating mammals. Felines require a lot of protein in their food, as much as thirty percent, also lacking the tummy to succeed on a diet of grains, grains or grains. In fact, suppose you made a creature to live from hunting down animals for sure you will find it difficult doing more skillful than the layout of the kitty. If you are familiar with cats, you know and understand that they have muscular mouths, expanded, piercing teeth also claws that retract into their paws while when not used. Cats hear extremely well. The eyes are accommodated for visual sense in non-luminous situations for preying on just prior to first light and just following dusk, the prime hunting periods.
These cats were probably as heavy as today's tigers, and are also known as "Saber-Toothed Tigers".
This animal was a prehistoric creature that had enlarged canine teeth that were about 8" long. The first saber-toothed cats lived about 40 million years ago, and became extinct about 10,000 years ago. More