Sunday, May 2, 2010

Why Do Cats Flick Their Ears When They're Asleep?

A cat's remarkable ears each have 30 muscles that control the outer ear (by comparsion, our ears only have six muscles). These muscles rotate 180 degrees, so it can hear without moving its head. Even though a snoozing kitty appears to sleep quite often, most of the time it's only dozing and constantly searching the air for messages that might mean it needs to spring into action at the spur of the moment.


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