Cats are fascinating creatures and a lot of people choose these beautiful animals as their pets!
If you are a cat person and you really love cats, then you must find out these interesting facts about them!
- Cats are mammals!
- There are more than seventy cat breeds recognized by various cat registries.
- Cats are known for their strong flexible body, quick reflexes, sharp retractable claws and teeth adapted to killing small prey.
- Yeap, cats can hear almost everything!They can hear sounds too faint or too high in frequency for human ears, such as those made by mice and other small animals.
- In comparison to humans, cats have poorer color vision and a better sense of smell.
- Cats have a big variety on communications using mewing, purring, trilling, hissing, growling and grunting and that is there way of ”talking” to us.
- A genetic study in 2007 concluded that all domestic cats are descended from Near Eastern wildcats, having diverged around 8000 BC in the Middle East.
- Cats were a huge deal in Ancient Egupt.
- A cat has about 120–140 heart beats per minute.
- Cats eat grass occasionally.
- The whiskers of a cat are highly sensitive to touch.
- The hooked papillae on a cat’s tongue act like a hairbrush to help clean and detangle fur.
- Male cats are the fighters!
- An arched back, raised fur and an open-mouthed hiss can all be signs of aggression in a domestic cat.
- Cats play with their prey to weaken or exhaust them before making a kill.
- Their worldwide population exceeds 500 million.
- Ailurophobia is a human phobia of cats.
- In some cultures it is common to think that black cats bring bad luck to them.
- Women who have cats have long been associated with the concept of spinsterhood.
- In a recent study it was shown that writers and people who are into arts, prefer cats as their pets.
- Killing a cat was absolutely forbidden and the Greek historian Herodotus reports that, whenever a household cat died, the entire family would mourn and shave their eyebrows.
- Several ancient religions believed cats are exalted souls, companions or guides for humans.
- According to a myth in many cultures, cats have multiple lives.
- Cats are believed to have nine lives in some countries, but in Italy, Germany, Greece, Brazil and some Spanish-speaking regions, they are said to have seven lives.In Turkish and Arabic traditions, the number of lives is six.
- Images and videos of domestic cats make up some of the most viewed content on the web.
- As of 2016, The International Cat Association (TICA) recognizes 58 standardized breeds,the Cat Fanciers’ Association (CFA) recognizes 44 and Fédération Internationale Féline (FIFe) recognizes 43.
- Sphynx,Sokoke,Singapura,Russian Blue,Bombay,Aegean are some cat breeds you will find all over the world.
- Cats conserve energy by sleeping more than most animals, especially as they grow older.
- In some countries cats are not allowed to be close to pregnant women.
- Cats are often seen as jealous creatures, but the truth is that they crave for attention and they love cuddling.
