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Cat Fact or Fiction?

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Posted by: gocatgo at Thu Dec 1 21:09:35 2005  [ Report Abuse ] [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by gocatgo ]  
   

Below are 10 cat facts. Nine are true and one is false. Can you find the false one?

1. The cat family split from the other mammals at least 40 million years ago, making them one of the oldest mammalian families.

2. A cat's normal body temperature is 101.5 degrees F (38.6 C).

3. Cats have about 100 different vocalization sounds. In comparison, dogs have about 10.

4. A cat's brain is more similar to a human's brain than that of a dog.

5. Both humans and cats have identical regions in the brain responsible for emotion.

6. Cats must have fat in their diet, because they can't produce it on their own. Never feed your cat dog food, because cats need five times more protein than dogs do.

7. A cat can jump five times as high as it is tall.

8. Cats only need a sixth the amount of light that humans do to see. However, their daytime vision is only fair compared to that of humans.

9. A cat's hearing rates as one of the top in the animal kingdom (of course they may choose not to hear some sounds). Cats can hear sounds as high-pitched as 65 kHz; a human's hearing stops at just 20 kHz. A cat can hear a can opener from over a mile away.

10. Both female and male cats reach puberty at approximately six months of age,. Males will act more territorial, disappear for days and “spray” their scent. Females will lower themselves close to the ground and meow as if in pain when they go into heat.




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