Cat

Cat, Felis silvestris Catus, is a type of carnivore. The word "cat" generally refers to "cats" that have been tamed, but can also refer to the "big cats" like lions, tigers, and leopards. Cats have been mingled with human life since at least 6000 years BC, of ​​a cat skeleton on the island of Cyprus. Ancient Egyptians of 3500 BC has used cats to keep mice or other rodents from the barn to store the harvest.Currently, the cat is one of the most popular pet in the world. Cat lineage officially recorded as a cat or a pure-breed (pure breed), such as Persian, Siamese, manx, sphinx. Cats are usually bred in captivity official animal. The number of cats race is just 1% of all cats in the world, the rest is a cat with a half-breed like stray cats or cats home. Pet cat or house cat is one of the world's greatest predator.These cats can kill or take a few thousand species, big cats are usually less than 100. But because of its small size, the cat is not so dangerous to humans, the only danger that can arise is the possibility of rabies infection from cat bites and scratches from the cat's nails are very sore and painful. Cats can be fatal to an ecosystem that is not their natural home. In some cases, contributed to or caused the extinction of cats. Cats catch and paralyze the prey in a manner similar to the lions and tigers - biting neck of prey with sharp canine teeth that injure the spinal cord or cause the prey out of breath with throat damage.Cats are considered as "the perfect carnivore" with teeth and digestive tract in particular. Premolars and first molars to form a pair of fangs on each side of the mouth that works effectively as a pair of scissors to tear the meat. Although this feature is also present in the family Canidae, or dogs, but these traits are better developed in cats. Unlike other carnivores, cats do not eat nearly anything that contains herbs. Bears and dogs sometimes eat berries, roots, or honey as a supplement if there are cats only eat meat, usually freshly killed. In captivity, cats can not be adapted to a vegetarian diet because they can not synthesize all the amino acids they need simply by eating the plants; unlike dogs, are often fed a mixture of meat and vegetable products, and sometimes it can adapt to a vegetarian diet total.Despite its reputation as a reclusive animals, cats are usually able to form colonies in the wild but do not attack groups like lions. Each cat has its own territory (sexually active males having the largest area, is sterile males have the smallest area) and there is always the "neutral" where the cats can watch each other or meet in the absence of territorial conflicts or aggression. Outside these neutral areas, local authorities will pursue a common foreign cats, beginning with a staring, hissing, to growl, and when the cat's foreign remain, it will normally occur a short fight.Cats including net animals. They often take care of themselves by licking their hair. Their saliva is a powerful cleaning agent, but could trigger a human alergipada. Sometimes cats vomit hairball or coils of hair collected in their stomachs.Cats save energy by sleeping more often than any other animal. Older cats sleep varies between 12-16 hours per day, with the average 13-14 hours. But not rare cat who slept for 20 hours in a day.