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Cat Behaviour, Intelligence And Memory Of Cats, Cat Training
By chetan gupta, Fri Dec 9th
INTELLIGENCE OF CATS - Cats are more intellgent as compared todogs.The anatomy of brain of cat is very similar to the humanbrain, whereas the anatomy of brain of a dog is not very similarto human brain.The anatomy of brain of cat is about ninety ninepercent similar to human brain. Both cats and human beings havesame regions for emotion in their brain. The intelligence ofanimals depends upon brain weight to body weight ratio andanatomy of their brain. The brain of an adult cat weighs aboutone percent of its body weight while the brain of an adult humanbeing weighs about two percent of its body weight. The brainweight to body weight ratio in cats is greater in cats ascompared to Dogs. The cat has an ample and very advancedcerebral hemisphere, typical of intelligent creatures.Cerebellum is well developed in brain of a cat. Cats are used inscientific research. The biochemistry of behaviour, memory andthe emotions can be explored by stimulating or destroyingcertain areas in cat brains. Cats can distinguish complexshapes. Cats can distinguish complex geometrical shapes such astriangle, circle and square. Cats can distinguish between shapesof letters of alphabets of language. Cats can also distinguishbetween colours. Cats are used in scientific studies related tovision because cats have more nerve cells in their brain forvision as compared to human beings and all other mammals. Catshave also been used in sleep studies. There are same types ofsleep stages in cats and human beings having similar wavepatterns. Cats dream in deep sleep stage like human beings.Kittens begin dreaming at just two weeks age. Cats have lightsleep and dark sleep stages like human beings.The cats haveemotions and feelings like human beings. Cats think and takedecisions like human beings. Some pet cats are jealous of otherpet animals kept in the same house. Every cat has its differentpersonality like human beings. There are some cats whose psychesare characterized as timid, impudent, obedient, stubborn,tranquil, spiteful, courageous and vile. Cats do very well inpsychomatric tests. Cats have excellent observation power. Catsexhibit considerable aptitude for learning by observation andexperience. Observation power of cats is greater than any otherdomestic animal. Memory of cats is sharper than any otheranimal. Like human beings cats have both long term and shortterm memory. Cats have excellent memories. The knowledgeattained by cat by means of observation, trial and error isretained for whole life. According to the research work done atUniversity of Michigan and the Department of Animal Behaviour atthe American Museum of Natural History in USA , memory of catsis about two hundred times more than that of dogs. Memory ofcats is found to be more than Monkeys and Chimpanzees.A catnever forget in its life.Cats retain information obtained bymeans of observation throughout their life.Cats learn byobservation, imitation, trial and error just like human beingsdo. Cats try to keep themselves clean. Cat's are nature'scleanest animals. Cats spend about thirty percent of its life ingrooming themselves. Cats are social animals like human beings.Like human beings, different cats have different personalities.Cats are most independent out of all domestic animals.Catscommunicate by means of their body language, facial expressions,table gestures, head, eyes, ears, tails, scent glands, trampleby paws, salivation and different vocal sounds. The bodylanguage of cats is expressed with more than sixty gestures. TheLanguage of cats is universal. For example, dilated pupils ofeyes of a cat means fear while partially closed eyes meansrelaxation. An angry cat will have narrow pupils. Trampling bypaws means affection and love. Erect ears of a cat pointingforwards means relaxation while ears folded backwards meanswarning. Cats knead their paws when they are happy. A cat nevermeow at another cat because cats use this sound for humanbeings. Slow calm flaps of tail of a cat means satisfactionwhile quick swings of tail means warning. Tail of a cat heldvertical with its tip stiffly held upright means a very happycat in greeting mood and a cat exposing its stomach means trustand vunerability. A cat arch its back when it is threatened byanother animal. Although the cat is a relatively small animal,it can frighten enemies by arching its back, bristling, andhissing.Cats use about hundred different types of sounds forcommunication while dogs use only about ten different types ofsounds for communication. Researchers have noted some sixteenvocal patterns in cats. The basic cat sounds are purring, meowsand hisses. Cats can readily vary these sounds, thus seeming totalk.A cat meeting with another cat can emit more than fiftydifferent sounds for communication which vary in tone from harshto acute.The cat possesses a sweet sound, the Purr, which ituses to express joy, momentary well being and affection for itsowner. It is a musical sound repeated at length when the cat ishappy. Purring also occurs in cats that are injured and in pain.Cats can distinguish between shapes of letters of alphabet oflanguage like human beings. Cats can distinguish between complexshapes such as circles, squares, triangles etc. Cats can alsodistinguish colours. Out of all animals, only cats have theskill of jumping from great heights by rolling their body inair, so that they tend to land on all four feet on the ground,without injuring themselves. Cats survive fall from greatheights.A cat named Andy survived fall from 16th floor of aMiami apartment building. Cats have been the subjects in anumber of studies involving weightlessness. The studies haveshown that under conditions of weightlessness, a cat is unableto right itself, but will float about in any position. Cats seemto defy gravity. A cat can survive fall from height of hundredsof feet. After a fall, a cat always land on its feet on ground.A frightened domestic cat can run at speeds of upto thirty milesper hour. A cat can jump upto seven times its height. Cats areexcellent climbers.A cat always hunt alone whereas dogs alwayshunt in groups because stalking, hiding and pouncing cannot besuccessful in a group. A kitten at six weeks of age can huntalone.Cats have fourteen times more smelling power than humanbeings. Cats mark their territory with the help of scent glandsby means of rubbing and scratching. All cats defend theirterritory and cats does not tolerate competition within its ownterritory. The territories of cats can be as large as hundredacres or more for rural cats and as small as a few feet for citycats. The territory of cats are the safe places for sleeping,eating, hunting, defecating and playing. Like human beings, catsare territorial by nature. Scent glands are located on variousparts of cat's body including their faces, feet and base oftheir tail. Scent glands contain molecules called Pheromones. Bymeans of rubbing their faces on various objects, cats arereleasing Pheromones. Pheromones affect number of behaviourslike reproduction and establishing territory. All cats scratchfor whole life because scratching removes dead nail materialfrom their claws and establishes their territory by marking withthe scent glands at the bottom of their feet.Traning a cat isvery easy because cats are very intelligent animals. Cats canlearn many activities by observation like human beings. Theobservation power of cats
is greater than all domesticanimals.Cats can learn dozens of activities. It is not necessaryto train a cat to use litter box because mother cats train theirkittens to use litter box. Cats can also be trained for usingtoilet. A kitten can learn to use toilet at the age of justthree weeks. A cat of more than six months age can be easilytrained to use toilet.Cats can be trained for walking anddancing with the help of two legs.The earliest written record ofa cat dancing with a person dates back from 1692. Cats can betrained for various exercises like aerobics and Yoga.Cats areborn meditators. Cats can draw paintings without training. InUSA and New Zealand paintings drawn by cat artists are sold inexhibitions. The cats draw paintings since ancient Egyptiantimes. Some good looking paintings drawn by artist cats are soldfor more than ten thousand dollars. A good looking paintingdrawn by a cat was sold for seventy five thousand dollars.Catscan be trained for playing Piano, violin and other musicalinstruments. The public houses in which a cat play a violin areknown as The Cat And Fiddle. Cats can be trained to walk on aleash. Cats learn many activities by observation. Cats of fourto five months old are easiest to train. Cats can learn dozensof activities like handshaking with paw, begging, opening door,turning on lights, jumping through hoop, opening windows,opening refrigerators, playing musical instruments, eating foodwith the help of their paws, ringing bell, acting dead, rollingon floor on command, hide food in boxes and walking on a leash.Cats quickly learn tricks like fetching a toy or object, sittingon command, jumping through a hoop and walking on a rope. Catscan easily learn many tricks. The cat pays attention to thosethings that are related to its own interest. Sometimes cats alsolearn something on their own without observation or traininglike grabbing doorknobs to get out, hiding food in boxes,opening windows to get in and opening refrigerators to eat food.The cats has an innate sense of curiosity. It is aware ofstrange objects, contents of an open drawer and objects inmotion. The cat or kitten, more than any other animal, is fullof trepidations. The cat or kitten first puts a paw toward a newthing, touches it timidly, then proceeds more decisively, andonly after that smells it, but the dog or puppy, curious to knowthe world, smells everything that comes its way. During WorldWar I, cats were sent by the British army to sea to testsubmarines and some cats were sent to trenches to warn about gasattacks. Cats have the ability to use biological clock, earth'smagnetic field and angle of sun. Out of all other mammals onlycats have homing instinct. Cats can return back to their ownershome from thousands of kilometers away without any help becauseof its sharp memory. Cats love their owner's home. A cat of USAreturned back alone from New York to its owner's new home inCalifornia after walking a distance of two thousand threehundred miles without any help. A cat of USA named Sugarreturned back alone from California to its owner home inOklahoma after walking a distance of two thousand and fourhundred kilometers without any help.Cats like to play games likechasing light, hide and seek and many ball games. Cats enjoyplaying with toys and watching television. Many video cassettesspecially designed for cats are now available in the market. Thecat toys include action toys, toy mouse, soft toys, Ping-Pongballs, catnip toys, race n'chase, feather toys, kitten mittenand balls.A CD-ROM game for cats that offers the computerliterate cat eleven big game options, including virtual mice,spiders and birds that skitter around is now available at theinternet site http://www.cyberpounce.com/. Cats are stronglyattached to catnip.The catnip is used in making many cattoys.Cats have also been employed in many glamorous jobs. Bob,the weather cat is regular on a television station in Oregonwore sunglasses on bright days and earmuffs and a scarf when theweather turned chilly.The amount of love that a mother catprovides to her kittens is highest as compared to all otheranimals. The stray female cat is excellent mother. Catunderstands when the moment of giving birth is near. When thetime of giving birth is near, the female cat begins to appearagitated and meows in a strange way, sweet and musical, a kindof request for help and response to what is approaching. Thefemale cat try to give birth in a corner where she caneventually defend herself and newborn kittens from dogs andother animals. After giving birth the mother cat willimmediately free each kitten from the sac, lick it, clean it andgently dry it. After giving birth, the female cat transfer herlitter from one hiding place to another in order to protect itfrom dogs and other animals. The mother cat clean and feed thenewborn kittens. The mother cat teach its kittens to play, tohunt, to climb, to clean and to use toilet. When livingoutdoors, the cat learns to protect itself from the cold andrain by taking refuge in a doorway basement or in abandoned box.When the end of life of cat is near, cat try to find a secludedspot in which to die with dignity, either under a bush, in thetrunk of a tree or a crumbled hut so as not to disturb or bedisturbed in the moment of the most quiet sleep. Many cats arenow working in movies. Morris was the famous cat who worked ontelevision.Toonces, a male cat was so much intelligent that hewas able to actually drive car, truck and tractor. Toonces likedto ride bicycle. Toonces was also able to communicate in Englishby means of typing. Toonces worked in 1988 in NBC's SaturdayNight Live in which he actually drove cars. Toonces was one ofthe most talented cats on television. Toonces worked at Saturdaynight live with many familiar celebrities. The televisionparents of Toonces were Saturday Night Live regulars VictoriaJackson and Dana Carvey.Video film of Toonces driving car can bedownloaded at the website www.catass.com oonces and at websitewww.whataboutcats/mpeg_toonces.html. Video film of tooncesdriving car is now available at http://www.amazon.com/. For moreinformation about Toonces visit website www.wrona.comoonces.html and also visit website www.mavericktimes.comoonces.html . A cat named Pepper was a motion picture cat whostarred next to the comedian Charlie Chaplin. Britain's bestknown television cat was Arthur. Arthur starred in more thanthree hundred television commercials between 1966 and 1975.Thomas Alva Edison Inc. manufacturing company of scientistThomas Alva Edison earliest movies showed two cats fightingboxing in a ring. Many cats are now working in movies.Accordingto news in June 2001,a cat named Borris managed to order 450cans of its favourite food on an internet shopping site when itsowner was not looking. According to website of T.V Series ofAnimal Planet channel of Discovery channel, some cats also enjoysurfing the internet. A software to prevent the use of computerand internet by cats is now available at the websitehttp://www.pawsense.com/ and at the websitewww.bitboost.com/bb_welcome.html. About the author:I am owner and webmaster of webmaster of websitehttp://www.catswelfare.org.I am working in SPCA Mumbai,India forthe past seven years.I am also a cat dentist.
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