Flexible and Agile

Maybe the characteristic of the feline skeleton that most stands out is the flexibility of its dorsal spine, due to the slightly joined vertebrae, separated like in humans, by discs. This quality allows cats to be comfortable in various positions, stretch and make amazing jumps and thus, to turn its head to groom all its body. The spinal cord is joined to their skull and goes all the way up to the tip of the tail. All its body is flexible, even the tail, which movement gives him the opportunity of expressing himself and keep the equilibrium when climbing or walking over narrow strips. When active, the key to the movement of cats lays in the joints between the spine and its shoulder blades, spine and pelvis. Their clavicle is not like that of human because in cats the triangular shoulder blades are disposed at both sides of the thorax, and not behind, making it easier for them to climb, walk over narrow strips and crouch or stretch within narrow spaces.

Their shoulder blades are directly connected with the superior bones of their front legs, the humerus, through the first articulations, which gives him flexibility and favors long steps. Observe them give big forward jumps and align its front legs with its body or to fall over its prey. The same happens with the superior bones of its hind legs, the femur, whose articulations of spherical rotulas join the pelvis and adds to the movement when running.