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It has now become clear that Jerry was a regular mouse-Casanova because of Tom. The scent of a cat may be the dread of any mouse, but it may also function like a sexual booster for these small rodents, as revealed by a new research published in the Journal of Ethology. The cat smell turns male mice into aggressive Do... |
12 May 2008
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Yahoo Messenger 8.1 and Yahoo Messenger 9.0 Beta have just received a new IMVironment that comes with a brand new pack of emoticons which could be used by the connected users. Entitled Emoticats, the IMVironment is actually a Yahoo Messenger animation that allows you to choose from several cats portraits and send the... |
12 May 2008
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The world's most beautiful tiger is at the same time the smallest: the Sumatran tiger (Panthera tigris sumatrae). This tiger subspecies inhabits the island of Sumatra and is today reduced to a number of 600-800 individuals. The Siberian tiger is the largest cat ever to exist, measuring up to 2.8 m (9.3 ft) witho... |
23 April 2008
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You may love or hate cats, but they gained their right of citizenship in most urban and rural human settlements. Along the millennia, cats accompanied people mostly through their will. Some civilizations adored and worshiped cats (in Egypt, there was even a cat goddess, Bastet), but in other cases cats were useful au... |
11 March 2008
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Another freak in the gallery of odd cats: a two-faced one! They may live nine lives, but with a face from SF movies. Renee Cook of Amarillo, Texas, got a real shock when her three-year-old Persian and Calico mix cat Amber delivered this two-faced kitten. "I picked it up and said, 'Oh my goodness, two faces'... |
21 February 2008
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Just a month after the attack of an escaped tigress at San Francisco ended with the death of three teenagers, a new research published in the journal "Brain, Behavior, and Immunity," shows that cats become enraged exactly the same way as humans.Enraged cats react by hissing, arching their back, retracting their ear... |
4 February 2008
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The purring pussycat on your arms can bring you down. Aliments or water containing parasite eggs from Cat feces can contaminate water and food with eggs from the protozoan parasite Toxoplasma gondii, as the cat is the only species hosting the parasite during the sexual stage of its life cycle. The parasite can be tr... |
17 January 2008
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The lynx is the "panther" of the northern forests, from Spain and European mountains to Siberia, Canada and Alaska. The best conditions for a lynx require the combination of two habitats: dense old forests, luxuriant and thick, for breeding and raising their offspring and rabbit/hare rich green pastures and young for... |
18 December 2007
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In nature, only fireflies and marine creatures (like jellyfish, abyssal squids and fish, and others) are fluorescent, but now, after researchers managed to obtain fluorescent pigs, rabbits, butterflies and tank fish, based on genes from these creatures, now we have fluorescent cats, too. This was achieved by a South ... |
13 December 2007
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1.Numerous studies showed that the love for your pets can improve your health. It decreases stress, the number of visits to the doctor's, and even increases the survival chances in case of heart attack. A pet can help stroke patients to recover and psychiatric patients to hold on their anxiety. Pets appease peop... |
3 December 2007
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There may be an economical boom in China, but do cheap products respect consumers' life? After toxic compounds were found in Chinese toothpaste and so-called "herbal drugs", now the cause of the toxicity of pet food brought from China has been explained by an UC Davis team in a research published in the Journal ... |
29 November 2007
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1. Today we say the tiger is the king of the jungle but the tiger originated in the Pleistocene of Asia, about 2 million years ago, in a clime of temperate forests. This nocturnal and solitary cat has a territory varying in the case of the male from 60 square kilometers in tropical forests and savannas to 4,000 squar... |
3 November 2007
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Black cat owners, beware! Here comes the Halloween! The time when the mind of many crazy people out there gets… unleashed. At the Iowa City Animal Care and Adoption Center, people are still shocked by what they saw the day after the 2004 Halloween: a black cat duct-taped to an 8-ft (2.5 m)-tall crucifix. These rare e... |
30 October 2007
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There's nothing faster than a cheetah on the hunt. The maximum speed is of 112 km (70 mi) per hour, but the average hunting speed is still of 72-90 km (46-56 mi) per hour. No living or extinct animal runs or used to run at such speeds. How can this be possible? The cheetah is a very special cat, with specific ad... |
26 October 2007
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1.The jaguar's closest relative is not the leopard, as you would have thought due to the spotted coat pattern, but the ...lion!A large European jaguar (Panthera gombaszoegensis) roamed the European Mediterranean and temperate forests 1.5 Ma ago. This cat evolved into a lion and then into a jaguar. The direct anc... |
26 October 2007
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People are an easy prey for any large predator. And between death by hunger and death by shooting, perhaps a lion won't starve till dying. In Mozambique, the rainy season is the moment when the lions turn into man-eaters, because the too tall grass impedes them to approach to their normal preys. This happened in... |
20 October 2007
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These were the horror cats of our prehistory. But as it wasn't the case with T-rex, Stone Age people had to face these beasts. A new research has shown the way the terrible predators used to kill their prey and the surprise is that, despite their huge fangs, the bite of these predators was surprisingly weak. Smi... |
2 October 2007
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Now, scientists have found the cause of Sylvester's failure in catching Tweety. A new research has determined just low long cats can remember a certain type of information: for 10 minutes. The study compared cats' working memory of their recent movements correlated to their visual memories, and discovered t... |
21 August 2007
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During the European Dark Ages, cats were linked to black witchery and persecuted. They were regarded as harbingers of death. But Oscar is not from the Dark Ages, nor does it live in the hut of a hex, but still is a harbinger of death more precise than a Swiss clock. This cat has the unusual quality of forecasting whe... |
26 July 2007
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Playing cat and mouse can have a different outcome from what we see in some cartoons. Tom and Jerry can be even very good friends when solving some very special tasks. In the past years, a special Colombian police unit has been training rats and cats put in the same cages as part of a project to teach the rodents to... |
26 July 2007
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A connection between vampires, werewolves and full moon has not been established yet. Still, British police has found one between full moon and small dirty businesses (like petty thefts) or violent crimes. A new study has found that dogs and cats too are more exposed to injuries and illnesses during full moon than du... |
16 July 2007
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China's economy is just speeding and now the country is the world's largest exporter of fur garments; but for these 12 years of rapid progress, a great price is paid by the fur-bearing animals. There are no laws regulating the confinement and slaughter of the raccoon dogs, foxes, minks, rabbits, and even do... |
13 July 2007
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The growing power of the Internet has changed the destiny of over 800 cats which were to be skinned and served up as Chinese delicacies. 30 animal lovers rushed to a parking lot in Shanghai after reading an Internet posting by animal rights activist Huo Puyang signaling two trucks carrying cats in wooden boxes. Huo&#... |
12 July 2007
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In the case of cats, we really have doubts on whether they are really domestic or just live with us under the same roof. But as any domestic animal, cats too come from a wild animal. But the wild species (Felis sylvestris) lives in Africa, Europe and half of Asia. So the question is: where did the people domesticate ... |
29 June 2007
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Cats can have nine lives, wings (cases of rudimentary extra-limbs), but they can also have at least 26 toes. Normal cats have 18 fingers: five on each of their front paws and four on their rear.But Des, a 10-year-old cat of Felindre, near Swansea, UK, displays two extra toes on each paw and could be a UK record. This... |
12 June 2007
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Hot weather means hot cats. And now droves of cats and kittens are swarming into animal shelters nationwide, due to the global warming, as one pet adoption group says. Several shelters of the national adoption organization called Pets Across America face now a 30 % increase in intakes of cats and kittens from 2005 t... |
7 June 2007
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Is there any connection between sexual harassment and the flight ability?It seems so...A Chinese woman said her cat has grown wings, reports the Huashang News. Granny Feng remained stunned when she saw how her pet mysteriously grew two 10 cm (4inch)-long wing-like sprouts on its back. "At first, they were just two bu... |
2 June 2007
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Don't think that only humans live in marriages. Wild cats, too, live in families with strict rules when it comes to sex. Only the 2-3 dominant males in a pride father the cubs. And this is the case of leopards and tigers, too. A male dominates the territory of 2-3 females, which form their harems, and they will ... |
30 May 2007
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From the humble domestic cats to the mighty tyrants of the animal world - lions and tigers - the felines have a soft spot: they are extremely vulnerable to a volatile oil encountered in the stems and leaves of the catnip (catmint) plants (Nepeta species, from the mint family). When cats smell catnip, they start displ... |
30 May 2007
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Leopard is the symbol of grace and force. Unfortunately, these magnificent beasts have been intensively persecuted and poached since ancient times, and have disappeared from many areas, like North Africa, Middle East or Eastern China, while only in South Saharan Africa some populations maintain healthy. A recent cen... |
21 April 2007
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We are now looking for life "out there", beyond Earth; and from time to time, scientists discover unimaginable surprises: big beasts here on Earth that passed unobserved. The current such discovery is not a creature from the bottom of the oceans, but a big cat, up to 23 kg (58 pounds) from the islands of southeastern... |
16 March 2007
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Grace, power and intelligence ...This is a combination that fascinated people since ever; in cave painting 30,000 years old found in Europe, scientists discovered images representing the so-called cave lions (direct ancestors of today's lions). Cats emerged 37 million years ago. First cats were arboreal and rese... |
12 March 2007
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