4 their eyes only !
  • Cat's eyes are designed to facilitate hunting , often at night. Its eyes are large when compared with the size of its head. Because they  look forward they have somewhat the look of a baby primate which we find appealing. The cat's eyes are mysterious to us; more has been written about them than about the eyes of any other animal !
At the back of the eye, the retina is covered with 10 highly reflective layers of zinc and several highly evolved proteins.  It has been called a mirrored patch but is technically known as the Tapetum lucidum; it is what makes the cat's eyes glow at night when struck by  a direct beam of artificial light. The cat's eyes appear iridescent > The glow is yellow-green or blue-green, the cat has certainly  gold or copper eyes .
                  >  with blue eyes, it will appear red.

Cats need about one sixth of the amount of light we do to see quite well, but like us , they are not able to see when it's completely black. They can be helped in that situation by their vibrissae (whiskers).
  • Cats purr ! and no one really knows why ! Profoundity seems to have something to do with it : when cats are profoundly anything, contented, in pain, in any form of extreme, they seem to purr. Beyond that....Mystery ?
  • The cat brain is very similar to our own. only the newly evolved great big cortex is missing for them( where we store memories ) and  a bit in the older part of the brain(bulbous area)which helps  for speech patterns ...Why do you think scientists have been using cats  for so long ?
  • Cat ears are complex organs that evolved from organs of balance and they are in that regard in the mainstream of mammalian evolution. Hearing is basically the same in cat as in most mammals. A wave of pressure changes bombards the animal.
  • Feline skin is very sensitive to touch but insensitive to temperature changes. A cat won't even begin to feel uncomfortable until temperature reaches 124 degrees. The reason is how the distribution of  nerve endings and sensory cells are designed.
Cats have 24 whiskers also named 'vibrissae' , found on upper lip, cheeks, over the eyes, on the back of the forelegs. They become very useful when light is low. They are twice as thick and 3 times as deep in the skin ,informing the cat about touch but also about air pressure.

  • Cat senses are mostly(Jacob's organ) the same as humans but used differently. Our priority is not theirs ! but we also found it was impossible to separate sensation as all senses are co-operative !
Cats are also by nature very stubborn and may resist  what they learn  and already know when it interferes with  their essential character as voluptuaries .  One suspects that if Knowledge interferes with gratification, knowledge will certainly lose out. 

Domestic cats do not live in a virtual life: most things are  associated  with a positive or negative experience resulting in an appropriate action.  Do you know that  the cat brain  receives on the  average 10 000 signals a second and  only between 5 and 7 of these signals are  being processed by the brain.
Cats must find  us pretty interesting , as the relationship has developed over thousands of years despite all the other exciting and  stimulating signals around !

More to come>>>

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