We Love Cats!

About Cat Anatomy & Physiology

• Cats are believed to be the only mammals who don’t taste sweetness.
• Cats are nearsighted, but their peripheral vision and night vision are much better than that of humans.
• Cats are supposed to have 18 toes (five toes on each front paw; four toes on each back paw).
• Cats can jump up to six times their length.
• Cats’ collarbones don’t connect to their other bones, as these bones are buried in their shoulder muscles.
• Cats have 230 bones, while humans only have 206.
• Cats have whiskers on the backs of their front legs, as well.
• Cats have nearly twice the amount of neurons in their cerebral cortex as dogs.
• have the largest eyes relative to their head size of any mammal.
• Cats’ rough tongues can lick a bone clean of any shred of meat.
• Cats use their long tails to balance themselves when they’re jumping or walking along narrow ledges.
• Male cats are more likely to be left-pawed, while female cats are more likely to be right-pawed.
• Some cats are ambidextrous, but 40 percent are either left- or right-pawed.
• Some cats can swim.
• There are cats who have more than 18 toes. These extra-digit felines are referred to as being “polydactyl.”