Cats are carnivorous mammal. In scientific name it called Felis Catus. Cats typically weighing between 4–5 kg. However, some breeds can occasionally exceed 11 kg. The average male weighed around 1.36 kg and average female 3.3 kg. Cats average height is about 23–25 cm and 46 cm in head/body length.
Talking about cat, it looks familiar in anatomy to other felids such as tiger, cheetah, and lion. It has strong, flexible bodies, quick reflexes, sharp claws, and teeth. But it has smaller body, less in weight and height. Cats are often valued by human for companionship and their ability to hunt household pests.
Cats are a lovely, cute, and friendly animal. That’s why human have been keeping cats as their pets. Cats are known for its cleanliness, they groom themselves by licking its fur. Cats communicate with other cats by meowing, purring, trilling, hissing, growling, and grunting. Cats body parts are eye, nose, ear, mouth, whiskers, fur, leg, paw, and tail.
Cats are hunters. It hunt small prey and often used as a pest control. Cat’s strong, flexible bodies, quick reflexes, sharp retractable claws, and teeth adapted to killing small prey. Cats can hear sounds too faint or too high in frequency for human ears, such as those made by mice and other small animal. They can see in near darkness. Like most other mammals, cats have poorer color vision and a better sense of smell than humans.
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