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Yekko is kept widely as a pet around the world. It is a cat that keeps fascinating many people with a freaky and loving appearance, but there seem to be 17 things to know about such a cat.

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1. There are five fingers on the forefoot of the cat, but only four on the hind leg.


Cat has different number of fingers and arrangement of paws with forefoot and hind leg. A malformation such as polydactyly is frequently seen, cats like 5 in the hind limbs or 6 in the fore limbs are likely to be seen frequently. By the way, cats with a total of 28 fingers are listed in the Guinness Book of 7 in forelimb and hind limbs.

2. Ancient Egypt was the origin of the domestic cat.


It is said that a cat animal kept in ancient Egypt to protect crops from rats is the origin of a domestic cat. By the way, it is unknown whether the origin of a domestic cat today is unknown, but the oldest breeding example has been found from the ruins of about 9500 years ago in Cyprus, it seems that it was said to be immobilized as a house catheter around 3000 BC .

3. The ancient Egyptians loved the cats and worshiped.


In ancient Egypt cats are worshiped as lion substitutes, andBastet GoddessIt seems that it was also deified as a deification. From the ruins of Cyprus it was found that traces of cats were treated like humans.

4. Cats can not feel sweetness.


Because cats can not recognize sweetness, they do not seem to feel delicious even if you give a cake etc. On the other hand, the response to amino acids is strong, especially because it strongly recognizes bitterness, so it is sensitive to sour or bitter things. This is thought to play a role in avoiding eating meat by strongly feeling bitterness when amino acids rot.

5. First cat toilet was just sand


At first, the toilet for cats was just sand, but in 1948 it was found that the clay is more water-absorbing, so it seems that the prototype of the cat sand now was made.

6. Newton invented the cat's door.


NewtonIt is said that Newton created a small crawl door for a big cat and a kittens for a parent cat in the biography of.

7. The cat can be recognized by the light intensity of one sixth of the light that human beings can perceive.


In the eye of the cat, a layer called a bright plate (tapetum) is provided under the retina, and this layer reflects light, so that both incident light and reflected light pass through the retina, It seems that you can see things even with light. It is said that cats are killed by automobiles in the nighttime due to the fact that the movement stops due to the shock which has seen the light of the car. Also, suddenly flashing in the middle of the night there is a danger of blindness if you take a picture.

8. President 34 US President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Adolf Hitler hate cats.
9. US President Abraham Lincoln and Robert E. Lee (soldier who was active in the Civil War) love cats.
10. Abraham Lincoln had four cats in the White House.


11. The cat rings and throat at the same speed (26 times per second) as the idling diesel engine.


In general, when you are relaxed such as being caressed by an owner or a nostalgic person, you often ring a throat and a throat, but when you are in bad condition or when giving birth, you seem to be throbbing just before you die. I do not know clearly why the ringing of the nod is ringing, "To make the skeleton durable by generating low frequency sound from usual"There seems to be a theory that it relieves pain and makes breathing easier when it is difficult.

12. You can hear rat conversation.
13. Judge whether you can enter a narrow place with your beard.
14. The air that passes through the larynx while sucking and vomiting is ringing the sound of a throat nodding.


It is said that the cat's audible frequency is 60 Hz to 65 kHz, which is said to be adapted to respond to the highs emitted by rats and the like. Also, since the left and right ears can be moved separately, the directivity is strong, and the place of the sound source can be specified with considerable accuracy. In addition to that, it is said that the ability to distinguish sounds is also quite high in order to hunt ambushing at night.

Also, sensory nerves and blood vessels are densely distributed in the hair root portion of the beard, and even if something touches a little on the tip, it can be sensed. Besides the mouth, the same thing exists in the vicinity of the eyes, the side of the face, the joint of the forefoot, and plays an important role in tracking prey and getting away from the enemy.

Regarding the mechanism of ringing rogue about source mechanism, it says that "the air that passes through the larynx while sucking and breathing is ringing the sound of a ringing sound" is being described, but it seems that there is no definite answer in fact.

15. If you do not take Taurine you will lose sight.


Taurine, which is also contained in lipovitan D, is considered an essential nutrient for cats, and it seems that cats prefer squids and octopus containing many taurine. However, squids and octopuses are bad for digestion and ingestion in large quantities will cause dyspepsia, so care must be taken.

16. Nicola Tesla of the inventor was interested in electricity from a domestic cat.


Inventor known also that Edison and feuds were thereNicolas · TeslaHe seems to have been interested in electricity as a result of the static electricity received from my beloved cat in his young age.

17. The cat can run at 30 miles per hour (approximately 48 km / h), faster than human fastest Usain Bolt.


IncidentallyUsain · BoltIt runs 27 miles per hour (about 43 km / h), and the cheetah runs at 75 miles per hour (about 120 km / h).

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According to Wikipedia, in Japan, the image that "cat likes fish better than meat" is strong, but Fuji TVTrivia fountainIn experiments that let cats chose both fish and meat freely, it seems that all cats to be tested result in choosing meat. According to experts, cats like fish preference more than anything are totally unfounded, and that the custom of keeping cats in Japan in the medieval and early modern era where women did not eat meat at the center of the fish food spread What the fisherman liked to keep was said to have established the impression that "cat likes fish better than meat".