Tag Archive for 'Cat'

The saber-toothed cat (Smilodon sp.). Image credit: Charles R. Knight.

New Study Suggests Rapid Canine Growth in Saber-Toothed Cats

Jul 2, 2015 by News Staff

A new study reported in the journal PLoS ONE shows that the teeth of the fearsome saber-toothed cat (Smilodon fatalis) fully emerged later in life than...

Male Pallas’s cat (Otocolobus manul) licking his nose. Image credit: Emmanuel Keller / CC BY-ND 2.0.

New Study Explains Why Cats Such Picky Eaters

Jun 3, 2015 by News Staff

According to a new study published online in the journal BMC Neuroscience, taste receptors of felines respond in a unique way to bitter compounds compared...

Cats love cat-appropriate songs. Image credit: © Natali Anderson.

Cats Prefer ‘Cat Music,’ New Study Says

Mar 10, 2015 by News Staff

While cats ignore human music, they are highly responsive to music written especially for them, says a new study reported in the journal Applied Animal...

Dogs and cats need to move fluid against gravity into the body by means other than suction; they do this by lapping fluid with their tongue. When a dog drinks, it curls its tongue posteriorly while plunging it into the fluid and then quickly withdraws its tongue back into the mouth. During this fast retraction fluid sticks to the ventral part of the curled tongue and is drawn into the mouth due to inertia. The scientists studied several variations of this drinking behavior among many dog breeds, specifically, the relationship between tongue dynamics and geometry, lapping frequency, and dog weight; and also compared the results with the physical experiment of a rounded rod impact onto a fluid surface. Image credit: Emmanuel Keller aka Tambako The Jaguar / CC BY-ND 2.0.

Physicists Explain Why Dogs are Sloppy Drinkers

Nov 26, 2014 by News Staff

A team of scientists led by Dr Sunghwan Jung of Virginia Tech has identified and modeled the fluid dynamics at play when dogs (Canis lupus familiaris)...

Domestic Cats Eat More in Winter, Study Finds

May 28, 2014 by News Staff

Cats eat more during the winter and owners should give their pet more food during this time, a four-year observational study of 38 adult colony cats has...

An illustration of the Scottish wildcat, Felis silvestris grampia, by A. Thorburn, 1920.

Chinese Farmers May Have Domesticated Cats over 5,000 Years Ago: Study

Dec 18, 2013 by News Staff

A new study published online in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences provides possible evidence of domesticated cats between 5,560 and 5,280...

In the study, male cats showed a left-side bias for natural behaviors, females a right-side bias. Image credit: Jan Mallander.

Toxoplasma: Rats for Outdoor Cats

Aug 26, 2011 by Natali Anderson

When a male rat senses the presence of a fetching female rat, a certain region of his brain lights up with neural activity, in anticipation of romance....

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