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Cats prefer acidic and bitter taste and are able to perceive sweetness due to an inherited mutation that affects the taste buds? Since cats are meat, can detect sweet flavors will not provide advantage survival as predators.

Cats ability to hear low frequency is approximately the same as ours, but they can hear frequencies from both humans and dogs, allowing them to locate rodent communication, including an ultrasound calls: an essential characteristic for nocturnal rodent hunters!

Cats greater acidity is at a distance of 75 cm, which is ideal for hunting (apart from the perspective of mice!) because this is the approximate distance across which the cats pounce upon catching them meals!

Cats have little color vision: can distinguish, blue and green, but often cannot distinguish between green and red.

After mostly cats are nocturnal predators have excellent night vision. A large part of a cat's retina has a special feature called the lucidum-a glossy reflective surface that interfere constructively and increases the amount of light that passes through the retina. In other words, a cat's eye is like a small house of mirrors which completes the amount of light the eye perceives. Light passes through the retina, and then is reflected back in the eye again, reducing the actual amount of light required to see them.

Cats have a good sense of smell, and rely on smell more than they do for their sense of taste. At the base of the nasal cavities, cats also have a special sensory organ called the vomeronasal organ (VNO), also referred to as the organ of Jacobson. The VNO detects feromonwn, chemical molecules that carry information-feromonwn is an important operation inter-cat communication.

Adult cats have a perception of poor temperature, with them inside coreswhich body, that can endure accidentally burn injuries if people aren't careful about limiting their access to pillows, stove tops, and other thermal heating appliances. However, in General, cats are able to withstand much higher ambient temperatures than humans. The heat tolerance is likely a result of desert roots.

Cats are obligate carnivores, meaning that they belong in the order Carnivora and have to eat the flesh of animals to survive. Little vegetation can digest and use vegetation derived nutrients; It is not equipped with the proper digestive enzymes and absorb mechanisms to do this.

Cats have retractile claws and are digitigrades (these feet). These traits to be agile and quiet tree climbers stalkers; cats are generally ambush predators or stalk-and-ambush predators.

Cats vibrissae (whiskers) provide sensory information and can detect very slight air movements caused by the movements of their prey: yet another handy feature for the predator to hold!

Have you ever wondered how your kitty to be impossibly tiny crevice tool? Cats have free-floating clavicles (collar bones) that allow them to squeeze through very small spaces!

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