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Curiosities about cats

Cats are often considered mysterious creatures , with a special and almost mystical character. It is about the animal that in the collective imagination accompanies the witches and, why fool ourselves, the bad guys in the film. Fortunately, these are myths that only have their place in literature or cinema. The flesh and blood kittens give good samples of their friendliness every day throughout the planet and star in millions of adorable videos that circulate on the Internet. In fact, putting a cat in your digital life is almost synonymous with success, such is the adoration that this pet arouses among the crowd.

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Do you know where a cat’s fingerprint is located? In the nose! The drawing that can be seen in it and its indentations are different in each kitten. The same thing happens to dogs.

Each ear of your pussycat has a whopping 32 muscles , which allow it to move towards each and every sound it perceives. Have you noticed that their ears look like radars? You already know the reason for that movement.

It is true that most of the time cats purr when they are happy but so do the females when they go into labor as well as the specimens that are sick or even scared to calm down.

As for their characteristic meow , you should know that they use it practically to communicate with humans, almost never with other congeners, that deaf cats emit louder sounds than those that are not, and that there are breeds such as the Siamese cat that are very chatty, capable of emitting a good number of different meows.

Cats are also great athletes who walk as gracefully as ballet dancers on their toes (they are 18, not 20 like humans!) And can jump up to 6 times their size.

This pet is very territorial, you are the one who lives on its land and when it rubs against you what it is doing is marking you as part of its property. Be careful, other cats, you belong to him.

When hyenas lived in the Arctic

These animals crossed from Asia to America through the Bering Bridge during the Ice Age.

Can an alligator have feathers?

If alligators and crocodiles have the genes that allow them to form feathers, why aren't they feathered?

We were able to start breeding animals 2000 years earlier than previously thought

This is demonstrated by remains of charred manure that are 13,000 years old.

They discover that more than 50 animals that we thought were mute can speak

Acoustic communication plays a fundamental role in aspects such as partner attraction and a number of other behaviors. The finding takes us back to 407 million years ago.

Hairy snail found in 99-million-year-old chunk of amber

How come they had hair? Its utility? Scientists think that Mesozoic land snails probably benefited from their fine hairs. Would it make them more attractive?

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