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How a cat drinks purrfectly

post #1 of 5
11/13/10 at 6:38am
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How a cat drinks: Feline finesse and fluid dynamics

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As all cat lovers know well, Felis domestica is a marvel of balance, subtlety and other hidden elegances.
Prepare to learn of another remarkable attribute: Four researchers have painstakingly filmed, analyzed and determined how it is that a cat can drink water while (unlike a dog) keeping its chin and whiskers pleasingly dry.
The answer involves an exquisite demonstration of physics: The cat, in effect, balances the forces of gravity against the forces of inertia, and so quenches its thirst.

Even the speed is amazing.
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post #2 of 5
11/13/10 at 6:58am
That video shows how a cat should drink, but it doesn't explain why my Dusty manages to spray water all around her drinking bowl!
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post #3 of 5
11/13/10 at 8:30am
Or why my kitties have wet chins after they drink!
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post #4 of 5
11/13/10 at 9:09am
Yes that is amazing! I haven't seen my cats if they drink that way, I have to find out how they drink
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post #5 of 5
11/13/10 at 3:43pm
It doesn't look like their getting much liquid on their tongues does it?.
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