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Did you know
...that the practice of taking
cats aboard ships
(pictured)
dates back to the
Ancient Egyptians
?
...that
Oscar the Cat
was featured in the
New England Journal of Medicine
for his purported ability to predict the impending death of the
terminally ill
?
...that
Grand Duke Nicholas Mikhailovich of Russia
gave away his cat to one of the soldiers tasked with his
execution
?
...that the
Witches of Belvoir
supposedly believed a
cat
named Rutterkin helped them
cast spells
?
...that cats learn by
trial and error
,
observation
and
imitation
? Cats'
learning abilities
are aided by their good
memory
. Research has found cats to have memory about two hundred times better than
dogs
. Cats are even thought to have even better memory than
monkeys
and
chimps
.
...that, despite the name,
Mrs Chippy
, the ship's cat on
Shackleton
's
Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition
was actually male?
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
<
Portal:Cats
|
Did you know
...that the practice of taking
cats aboard ships
(pictured)
dates back to the
Ancient Egyptians
?
...that
Oscar the Cat
was featured in the
New England Journal of Medicine
for his purported ability to predict the impending death of the
terminally ill
?
...that
Grand Duke Nicholas Mikhailovich of Russia
gave away his cat to one of the soldiers tasked with his
execution
?
...that the
Witches of Belvoir
supposedly believed a
cat
named Rutterkin helped them
cast spells
?
...that cats learn by
trial and error
,
observation
and
imitation
? Cats'
learning abilities
are aided by their good
memory
. Research has found cats to have memory about two hundred times better than
dogs
. Cats are even thought to have even better memory than
monkeys
and
chimps
.
...that, despite the name,
Mrs Chippy
, the ship's cat on
Shackleton
's
Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition
was actually male?
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