Interesting facts about cats

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Today we decided to entertain you with unusual facts about cats. Which ones did you already know?

There are 33 main cat breeds in total. And the number of domestic cats in the world reaches 500 million.
The heart rate of a cat is much higher than that of a human and ranges from 110 to 140 heart beats per minute.
On average, cats weigh about five kilograms, but cats of the Singapura breed weigh only two and a half kilograms.
The smallest cats are rusty-spotted breed living in Sri Lanka. Their weight does not exceed one and a half kilograms, and the size is about 15 centimeters.
Although the lion is considered the king of animals, it is not the largest feline. Tigers are much larger, growing up to three meters and weighing about three hundred kilograms. A tiger can eat about 40 kilograms of meat at a time.

"Kitty and Moon" by Laguna

In the wild, felids keep their tails horizontal or down, and only domestic cats can walk with their tail up.
Domestic cats do not communicate with each other by meowing. They use this "language" only to communicate with people.
Crème Puff was the oldest cat ever recorded, according to the 2010 edition of Guinness World Records, when she died aged 38 years and 3 days.
In the fifties, a cat named Dusty from Texas set a record for fertility – over 400 kittens were born from him during his long life. Moreover, the last kittens were born from him when he was already over 18 years old.

"Elegant handsome cat" by Ellie_Milk

The largest number kittens in one litter is 14 and was recorded in a cat named Bluebell in South Africa.
The skin pattern on a cat's nose is comparable in its uniqueness to fingerprints.
A cat has 517 muscles. At the same time, 12 of them are used to control each ear.
There are almost 40 more bones in a cat's skeleton than in a human's skeleton.
The age of a cat correlates with a human like this: when a cat is 3 years old, this corresponds to about 21 human years, when 8 years old, 40 human years, and 14 years old, 70 human years.