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Friday Catblogging: How Do Cats Cool Themselves Off?

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Embed from Getty Images Hannah Keyser writes How Do Cats Cool Themselves Off? (‘Here’s a hint: It’s not by sweating through their paws’): Conduction allows cats to cool themselves off or warm themselves up via contact with objects of a different temperature. This is why you can often find your cat seeking out cool kitchen…

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Friday Catblogging: They’re Crepuscular

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Kate Underwood answers the question Are Felines Nocturnal?: It’s a common response for cat owners to believe their cats are nocturnal, and that’s why they keep odd hours. However, nocturnal is not the correct term for domestic cats. There are three terms for the time of day when an animal is the most active: nocturnal,…

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Friday Catblogging: Cat Noses

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Tanya Lewis writes Cat Noses Contain Twisted Labyrinths That Help Them Separate Smells (‘Scientists hypothesize that coiled channels inside a cat’s nose may function like a gas chromatograph’): Researchers created a computational model of a cat’s nose based on computed tomography scans and tissue slices from a deceased house cat whose body was donated for…

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Friday Catblogging: Can Cats Smile?

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Claire Milroy asks Can cats smile? Yes, but not in the way you’d expect. Here’s what they’re trying to tell you: Cats do smile, but not in the way that humans do – while we bare a grin to show our happiness, cats smile with their teeth, says Marci Koski, a feline behavior and training…

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Daily Bread for 4.29.23: Flying Siamese

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Good morning. Saturday in Whitewater will be rainy with a high of 51. Sunrise is 5:50 AM and sunset 7:53 PM for 14h 02m 56s of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 65.7% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1862, Union forces under David Farragut capture New Orleans. A flock…