International Cat Day 2023: 15 Amazing Facts About Cats That You Probably Didn't Know

Unlike humans, cats have a very small clavicle located at the base of the neck that allows their shoulders to move independently of each other. Their clavicle is connected to the sternum by their single ligament, which gives them great flexibility, and allows them to pass through extremely narrow places.

Like cats, several other mammals include mongoose, bears, raccoons, squirrels, lemurs, gorilas, elephants etc.. do purr (Purring is a kind of self-healing technique. Purring helps stimulate muscles and bones without too much effort). The feline purr during a birth, injury or in a stressful situation. Cats can emit up to 100 different vocalizations and, contrary to popular belief, it is now known that cats use sounds not only to "talk" to their human friends, but also to communicate with each other.

Unlike dogs, felines don't use their tongue like a ladle to drink liquid. The tip of the cat's tongue barely touches the liquid, then moves it upward. It is as if the cat is pulling water towards its mouth, which helps to keep it dry.

When a cat really hungry and demanding to be fed do purring loudly with a sound frequency between 220 to 520 hertz while Babies cry at a frequency between 300 and 600 hertz that is difficult for a human to ignore. If that does not work, the feline comes to rub against your legs to make you understand that she wants to eat. Isn't it amazing?

Cats have a superior ability to see very well at night, but due to the size of their eyes, it's very difficult to focus with their eyes when it comes to seeing up close. Thus, they cannot see very well what is less than 30 centimeters from their face. There, it is the mustaches that take over to analyze what they cannot see clearly.

Cats sleep 15-20 hours in a day (Around two-thirds of their existence) because they reserve their energy for the hunt and when they are not comfortably installed in the arms of Morpheus, these felines spend a third of their time cleaning themselves.

Cats can be smaller than humans, but they have more bones than us. They have 230 bones, while humans only have 206. And the discs between its vertebrae are thicker than a person's. This bone structure, combined with their well-developed musculature, allows felines to have great elasticity and perform extraordinary jumps, as well as squeeze through seemingly impassable spaces and cavities.

Like humans have unique composition in their fingerprints, each cat has a unique and unmatched pattern on their nose pad, so their identity can be recognized by this natural impression. More than fingerprints, our cats have nasal prints.

Not many cat lovers know that cats can rotate their ears 180 degrees and use about 20 muscles to move their ears to help them identify sounds with hearing 5 times better than humans. In addition, their cone-shaped ears amplify sounds.

People who are allergic to cats are actually more allergic to their saliva and skin than to their hair. This allergy is due to the FEL-D1 protein (Secretoglobin protein that, in cats, is encoded by the CH1 and CH2 genes), produced in their skin, their saliva, or even their tears. The allergic protein spreads in cats losing hair when a feline cleans itself, it spreads and triggers symptoms such as sneezing, itchy throat, or itchy eyes.