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CAT TECHNOLOGY

This is so MIT. Tools. Exploring the everyday. Working collaboratively, they used equipment from a space lab. Fascination with the unknown. All that.

For Cats, a Big Gulp With a Tiny Touch of the Tongue

The part of this that is fascinating is that they were not satisfied with finding the mechanism alone but went on to figure out (with formulas) that the cat knows the speed required to lift a mass of water. It is genetically printed on the cat.

They checked this out with larger cats as well and found that there is a relationship between body or tongue mass and the speed of the lap required to lift the most efficient column of water. Cats do this too. They can do the math across the species. Is cat a species?

Labels: animals, MIT