A Cat
A cat's body is extremely flexible: their skeleton has over 230 bones (the human skeleton, though much bigger, only has 206 bones), their pelvis and shoulders are joined by the backbone with much looseness that in the majority of quadruperal animals. The great ability to jump is in part from his powerful musculature. The tail gives them stability when they jump or fall.
The claws are design to capture or hold on to his pray. The nails, sharpened, curved and retractable, are stuffed in a soft pillow like and hardened pad at the end of each finger of their legs and uses them to fight, hunt orclimb. The cat marks his territory by scratching or leaving his scent in trees or other objects, their nails leave visible scrapes and the odoriferous glands of the soft pads, their smell.
A cats teeth has as purpose to bite, not chew. The powerful muscles of their jaws and their sharpened teeth allows them to give a mortal bite to their prey.
Cats are born without teeth. The appearance of the first tooth starts around day 15 and the temporary dentition (milk teeth) is complete by the 8th week.
An adult cats mouth is made up of 15 teeth, of which the majority are small. The canines stand out for their size, length and edge. These fangs are what they use to catch and hold their prey and are extremely strong since they use them to cut into pieces their captured animal. The tongue is also rough allowing to remove with more facility the meat of bones.
Senses
A cats' sight is exceptionally adapted for hunting, especially at night. They have an excellent night vision, wide peripheral vision and a binocular vision that allows them to calculate distances with accuracy.
Their diurnal vision is not so good as humans. Cats see movement with more facility than any detail and it is believed that they can only see a very limited scale of colors.
Cats have an extremely sensitive hearing. They can hear a wide scale of sounds, even the ultrasonic ones. Their auditory sense is less sensitive to low frequencies, explaining why some cats are more receptive to feminine voices than to the masculine one.
They can turn their ears independently to be able to focus on different sounds.
The sense of smell is very developed; it plays a vital role for food search and for reproduction.
A way of communication is through the smell, for example; male cats apparently smell a female in zeal hundreds of meters away.
Cats sense of taste is specialized in a peculiar way, it has small capacity for sweets, but it is very sensitive to the variations of water.
A cats tongue is covered with rough protuberances or pap's, it is also used to scrape the meat off bones. The tongue is also used for cleaning themselves.
Whiskers also known as vibrissae, are very sensitive even to the slightest touch and uses them to forewarn any obstacle and notice any changes in the environment and it helps them find their way when there is little light.
