Numbers about cats
According to "Pravda" on the 10th, many people like to raise cats, but they may not necessarily own cats, especially the numbers related to cats. In fact, these numbers are just as interesting as the cat playing with a ball of yarn next to you.
Americans spend $4 billion each year on cat food, $1 billion more than they spend on baby food.
The patterns on a cat’s nose are as unique as human fingerprints. There are more than 500 million domestic cats in the world, and they can be divided into 33 main breeds. According to a survey by the University of Lyon, there are approximately 400 million domestic cats in the world.
In Australia, there are on average 9 domestic cats for every 10 citizens. There are more than 30 million domestic cats in Indonesia. With 8 million, France has the largest number of domestic cats in Europe. However, in some other countries, such as Peru and Gabon, domestic cats are rare.
A cat’s heartbeat is twice as fast as a human’s, with between 110 and 140 beats per minute. 25% of cat owners use a hair dryer to dry their cats after bathing.
The rusty-spotted cat with tawny spots on its body, which lives in Indonesia and Sri Lanka, is the smallest in the cat family. It is only half the weight of an ordinary domestic cat, about 15 centimeters long, and weighs no more than 1.4 kilograms. The Bengal tiger belongs to the cat family. From this perspective, it is the largest "cat" in the cat family: the male can weigh more than 300 kilograms, including the tail, and can be up to 3 meters long. The extended tail alone is 1 meters long. A tiger can eat 40 kilograms of meat in one sitting.
Cats feed on rats, so they eliminate them, thus each cat can save humans 10 tons of food every year. In England, cats who protect grain silos from rats get a government subsidy. Cats also protect books and other artefacts in the British Museum from damage by rats. In Austria, if a cat serves as a "warehouse guard" for a few years, he or she can enjoy a lifetime pension, which can be used to eat milk, meat and broth.
Domestic cats are the only species in the cat family that walk with their tails erect. Wild cats walk with their tails either flat or tucked between their legs. Although it may surprise you, it's true: cats never meow to communicate and only emit this sound when they are in a relationship with a human.
Cats usually give birth to 1 to 8 kittens at a time, and give birth an average of 2 to 3 times a year. A cat can give birth to more than 100 babies in its lifetime.
A cat’s body is composed of 290 bones and 517 muscles. Their ears may rotate 180 degrees. Cats have 32 muscles in each ear, and cats use 12 or more muscles to move their ears.
The average lifespan of a domestic cat is 15 years, but wild cats can only live 3 to 5 years. If a cat is 3 years old, it is equivalent to a human being being 21 years old. When it reaches the age of 8, it is as mature as a 40-year-old human being. British cat Pussy, the longest-lived cat on earth, died one day after his 36th birthday in 1939.
There is evidence that a cat can catch up to 28,899 mice in its lifetime. The Scottish cat "Towesser" caught 28,899 mice in his 21 years of life, which means that he caught an average of about 4 mice every day.
New York’s Madison Square Garden held its first cat show in 1895.
Cats hate the smell of lemons or oranges. Therefore, scientists recommend wiping furniture with lemons or oranges so that domestic cats will not scratch and scratch the furniture.
The Guinness Book of World Records included two kittens in the early 1960s as the richest cats in the world after they inherited a fortune of $415,000. The richest single cat recorded in "The Encyclopedia" has an inheritance of $250,000. In the West, many people believe that seeing a white cat before a wedding is a sign of good luck. In Russia, many people believe that black cats protect their homes from thieves.
Cats have amazing eyesight, requiring only one-sixth of the light required by humans to see clearly. Their vision at night is even more amazing! On dark nights, cat eyes can even use light reflected from the retina. Cats can see up to 60 meters away, and their peripheral vision can reach approximately 285 degrees. The color of a cat's eye changes over time. They are born unable to see or hear, and then it only takes 7 to 10 days for them to open their eyes. Vision and hearing begin to improve gradually when they are two weeks old.
Cats are the laziest mammals: they sleep 16 hours a day. If not sleeping, cats will spend 30% of their time taking care of themselves. Questionnaire tests show that 95% of cat owners are interested in talking to their cats.
The "Guinness Book of World Records" included the world's heaviest cat in 1986 - Australian Himui, weighing 21 kilograms. So far, it still holds the record. 84 cm. The previous world record holder was Spieth of Connecticut, USA, who weighed 20 kilograms in 1977.
Unspayed cats are more aggressive. 21% of American households own cats. An adult cat has 32 teeth. People can predict the weather by observing cats' behavior. If someone sees his cat sleeping with its four legs tucked under its body, it means the weather is getting colder. In ancient Egypt, people shaved off their eyebrows in memory of dead domestic cats. Cats' sense of smell is 14 times stronger than humans. Cats can make about 100 different sounds.
Dogs, on the other hand, can only make about 10 different sounds.