Posted on 11/11/2010 9:52:36 PM PST by Jaded
WASHINGTON (AFP) – US researchers on Thursday unveiled the secret of how cats lap water or milk with such elegance, a phenomenon that happens so fast it cannot be followed by human eyes.
Cats are among the many species that, unlike humans, cannot close their mouths and create suction.
With help from from high-speed video taken of a felines lapping liquid, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Princeton University found that household cats and larger felines like tigers balance gravity and inertia as they imbibe liquids.
The research will appear in the November 12 issue of the journal Science.
Scientists already knew that when cats insert their tongue into a bowl of liquid, the top surface of the tongue touches the liquid first, then the tip curves like a letter J to form a sort of ladle.
This was first observed by an MIT engineer, who filmed a cat lapping liquid in 1940.
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Jeez, lighten up. No tax dollars, ok? It must be terrible to be so angry and lash out without knowing all the facts. Sounds a little like the liberals we all criticize.
http://www.davidicke.com/articles/medicalhealth-mainmenu-37/29121
cure for cancer, biocarbonite soda
Anyone with that much time to waste should be fired!!!
“Jeez, lighten up. No tax dollars, ok?”
If they did it durring time of employment public or private they should be fired!
One of mine insists on drinking cold running water from my tubs faucet. Nothing else will do. He sits in the tub until I trickle the water for him. The little buggers got me trained!
Yes, yes, I want a flying car too!! I was told when I went to the 1964 Worlds Fair in New York and went on Chevrolets ‘’World of Tomorrow’’ exhibit that we would have flying cars by 1980. Screwed again!!
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